Table Top Toes

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
358
Date Released
12 Apr 1928
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
NoS Summary - Barrie Oliver and Betty Bolton in Table d’Hote dance - table-top simultaneous dancing
British Pathe synopsis: "Something new in fast dances by Barrie Oliver and Betty Bolton" We see the couple dancing on a small table top. C/U of their legs as they dance. They do Charleston style movements. Top shot looking down on the table to show how little space they have to dance. "Barrie Oliver calls this his "Table d’hote" Dance - (There were 220 steps per minute for our slow-camera to catch up)" Slow motion footage - C/U of legs as they dance. They end the dance by Betty jumping into Barrie’s arms and sticking her leg out.
Keywords
Music and dance
Written sources
Kinematograph Weekly   19 April 1928 p47.
The Bioscope   19 April 1928 p50.
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP001 Used for synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998)   p194.
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'Table Top Toes', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 358, 12 Apr 1928. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331840 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)