News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

489

Date Released

16 Oct 1930

Length of issue (in feet)

769

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Spinner
• 2. Dancers - Grotesque and Dainty. (from "Victoria Vanities", Victoria Palace, London.)
• 3. "Autumn"
• 4. The Keeper of the Birds. Filmed at Wargrave.
• 5. Tony the Diver. (Filmed at Chiswick, London)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - routines from the show "Victoria Vanities" at the Victoria Palace in London, starring Laurie Devine.
NoS synopsis: ""Beauties and the Beast." - a jocular contrast, with the English Dancing Beauties and "Odeon."" The English Dancing Beauties wear feathered hats and short costumes. "Odeon" is a man in a pigs outfit wearing a chefs hat and apron. Odeon and the girls do a dance. Odeon flaps his ears and wiggles his nose. The girls do some box steps and knee lifts. "The Super Grotesque - the Amorous Turk "falls" for the Dancer. (Laurie Devine)." A huge inflatable Turkish man smokes a hookah whilst Laurie dances on top of it. The Turk’s ears wiggle and his eyes boggle at the sight of Laurie’s sexy dance. We then see "The Birth of Mauve - by the Albertina Rasch Girls." A line of chorus girls dressed in ballet tutus and walking on their points moves across the stage. They do a high kick routine. Low angle shot shows off their legs.

Keywords

Music and dance

Locations

London; England

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.198
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No. EP198
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998)   p65.
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile   Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.

British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

194

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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Phone

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Address

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Notes

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