| GALA Fascinating look at the dancing and cabaret in the Cafe de Paris nightclub. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7285 |
| Catalog #: | 191917 | |
| Clip Number: | 191917-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | PT 90 | |
| Timecode: | 01:18:35 - 01:24:07 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT: Floor Show ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Social ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC: Jazz ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC: Popular ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC: Traditional, Bagpipes FASHION: Formal / Evening Wear LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London RECREATION: Nightlife, Nightclubs | |
| Description: | GALA Fascinating look at the dancing and cabaret in the Cafe de Paris nightclub. Gala! Filmed at the Cafe de Paris. On with the dance, and the more crowded, the merrier, even though pretty frocks are submerged in the scene. Eddie Gross-Bart's Boys are playing. London. Various shots show couples dancing on the very crowded dance floor of the Cafe de Paris; other people sit at tables around the balcony of the nightclub, looking down onto the dancers. Eddie Gross-Bart and his band are heard playing 'Sweet and Lovely'. Everybody looks impossibly glamorous! This seems to be a kind of charity gala. M/S of Russell John, American entertainer, sitting at a baby grand piano on the empty bandstand, singing an jazz song about New York. We then see two Scottish pipers playing bagpipes on the bandstand (the other musicians are in their places). Everyone claps as they make their way up one of the staircases. Various shots of "well-known West End watchers" sitting at their tables: Nelson Keys; Miss Sunny Jarman (a very glamorous blonde). "And the inimitable Kenneth & George Western explained how "It was bound to happen in the end!" The famous comedy singing team of the Western Brothers are seen singing a topical song "It Was Bound To Happen In The End", involving several well-known people of the day, including Winston Churchill changing political parties. Kenneth Western tells a joke about the two hikers who went into the woods to pick bluebells and found so many other hikers there that they had to pick bluebells. | |
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