Yours and Theirs!
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 6
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: "Nobody, not even you Madam, escapes the tyranny of the powder puff." C/U of a woman powdering her nose. She looks into a mirror. "On the other hand, Mr. and Mrs. Jumbo are equally worried over their friend’s brushwork - " M/S of an elephant being given a bath. 3 zoo keepers use brooms to brush its body. Good C/U of woman looking into a mirror and combing her hair. "Jumbo gets another kind..." Two elephants are sprayed with water by a keeper. The elephants seem to drink the water as it is sprayed into their mouths. "Ever since he left school, Jumbo hated soap." Keeper uses a brush to scrub the elephants’ ears, face and feet. "Pedicure, too - " C/U of woman using orange stick to push back her cuticles - manicure. She looks at her nails. "This would put toil into any toilet!" M/S of elephant with his foot up on a bench. A keeper files down the nails on his feet. C/U of the keeper as he gives the elephant a pedicure.
- Keywords
- Fashion and costume; Animals
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- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.213
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP213
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How to cite this record
'Yours and Theirs!', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 522, 4 Jun 1931. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332738 (Accessed 26 Jul 2025)