Petals from "Blue Roses"

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

506

Date Released

12 Feb 1931

Length of issue (in feet)

814

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 7

Summary

NoS synopsis: "the Musical Play at the Gaiety Theatre, London". "Kenneth Kove has a hair-raising time when the "barbers" (George Clarke and Roy Royston) take him in hand." Comedy sketch showing Kenneth having his hair messed around with by George and Roy. They give him a silly hairdo then spray him with pretend hairspray from a crop spraying gun. The two "barbers" dance around the stage. One waters his head with a watering can. Another attempts to cut his nose off with a large pair of scissors. They put his hat back on and they dance around. One of them does silly impersonations of exhibition dance steps. He dances around with his hands above his head and the others tickle him under the arms. "Tripping a light fantastic - and very daintily, too, in this dance - " The chorus, dressed in evening gowns and tails do an elegant routine. The girls link arms and dance together, then split up and dance with their partners. This routine is mostly shot from a box - man is seen on edge of shot applauding the routine at the end.

Keywords

Performing arts

Locations

London; England

Footage sources

Pathe

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.206
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP206
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p43.
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile Issue sheet

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

216

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