The Toy-Town Party Dance
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 5
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: "A dainty dancing trifle from "Nippy" the Musical Play". "Dainty steps and shadowy figures - and the twinkling toes of Miss Binnie Hale -". Binnie Hale does a song and dance routine in front of a chorus of men dressed as gollywogs. Members of the chorus come on to the stage dressed as different toys: a marionette, pierrots, a dog, Mickey Mouse, toy soldiers, Little Bo Peep etc. Binnie is lifted aloft by the gollywogs. Binnie ends her dance by spinning around vigorously and falling to her knees. The curtain closes.
- Researcher Comments
- BUND - Play performed at the Prince Edward Theatre, London
British Pathe - This is a routine from the show "Nippy" according to paper records. - Keywords
- Music and dance
- 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) p107.
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile Issue sheet
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- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 128
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How to cite this record
'The Toy-Town Party Dance', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 507, 19 Feb 1931. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332660 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)