Twinkling Toes

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
290
Date Released
20 Dec 1926
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Summary
NoS Summary - Billy Merson, Annie Croft & Reginald Sharland dance "My Son John" at the Shaftesbury.
British Pathe synopsis: Excerpts from the Shaftesbury Musical Play "My Son John". "Billy Merson likes company when he twinkles his toes -" reads the opening intertitle. Billy Merson does a comedy dance routine dressed in a Turkish looking outfit - he wears a fez. He dances in front of a line of chorus girls, some of whom wear silky Chinese pyjamas, others wear very short shorts. They dance offstage. The pyjama clad girls do a high kick routine. Then the girls in shorts do the same. Annie Croft and Reginald Sharland perform a dainty waltz.
Keywords
Music and dance
Locations
London; England
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.103
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP103 Used for synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998)   p233.
National Film Archive Catalogue
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How to cite this record

'Twinkling Toes', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 290, 20 Dec 1926. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331555 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)