Here & There

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

501

Date Released

8 Jan 1931

Length of issue (in feet)

1058

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 7

Summary

NoS synopsis: "with Archie de Bear’s "Chelsea Follies" at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London. ""Dance, dance, little ladies -" taking steps in good time -" A line of chorus girls walks onto the stage. They lean forward and draw apart their skirts which are short and split down the middle. They then pretend to be putting on stockings or stroking their legs. They then do some high kick routines. We see these in L/S and from a closer view on stage which shows only legs and bodies of the women - not their faces. The girls sing as they fling their legs in the air. "No picture of Chelsea would be complete without some Chelsea Models - here are the Artist’s ideals." M/S of glamour girls emerging through curtains at the back of the stage posing in long gowns. A man in a dressing gown admires the models and draws back a curtain revealing a woman standing inside a cupboard type affair. He helps her to step down then leads her to the front of the stage. "Fast stepping - by the Eight Lancashire Lads -" L/S of the boys dressed in sailor suits with bell bottoms. They do a tap routine crossed with a sailor’s hornpipe, they stand on little circular podiums. They end their dance crouching down and looking out to sea. The Eight Lancashire Lads were famous for clog dancing. "And Nervo & Knox have a little trouble on the Embankment." A group of people stand beside a coffee stand. Signs on the stand read: "Tea Coffee Cocoa" One of the men is dressed as a pierrot. C/U of him speaking into a stick style telephone. C/U of the other two men who laugh at him. A posh looking woman stands at the coffee stall. The men try to chat her up but she walks off with the pierrot. The other two men follow them impersonating their walk. One of the funny men grabs the telephone. Various funny business ensues with the proprietor of the stand ducking through and being hit on the head by Nervo (or Knox) with an umbrella. A slapstick fight ensues. A very smart man in a Naval uniform comes onto the stage and the proprietor of the coffee stand gets back behind the counter. The proprietor throws some strings of sausages out of his stand and then he and Nervo and Knox push it off stage.

Keywords

Performing arts

Locations

London; England

Footage sources

Pathe

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.204
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP204
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p187.
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile Issue sheet

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

238

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