| LONDON'S FAMOUS CLUBS AND CABARETS - "PLAYTIME AT THE PICCADILLY" Entertainment at the Piccadilly Hotel includes cancan girls, rope spinner and tumblers | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7269 |
| Catalog #: | 506167 | |
| Clip Number: | 506167-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | PT 167 | |
| Timecode: | 01:19:08 - 01:23:11 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1933 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT: Comedy, Physical Comedy (Slapstick) ENTERTAINMENT: Floor Show ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Social ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Theatrical, Chorus Line ENTERTAINMENT/STUNTS: Acrobatics ENTERTAINMENT/STUNTS: Rope Twirling EROTICA: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London RECREATION: Nightlife, Nightclubs | |
| Description: | LONDON'S FAMOUS CLUBS AND CABARETS - "PLAYTIME AT THE PICCADILLY" (aka PICADILLY REVELS) Entertainment at the Piccadilly Hotel includes cancan girls, rope spinner Tex McLeod and tumblers Bil and Bil. London. Various shots of elegant diners dancing to Sydney Kyte's Band at the Piccadilly Hotel; the tunes are 'The Blue Danube' and a fast 'See Me Dance The Polka' (one couple are seen leaving the dance floor in exasperation during the latter!). We then see Rosalind Wade's Piccadilly Six dance troupe performing the Cancan dance; nice shots of men in dinner jackets looking on. Rope spinner Tex McLeod does his act, jumping through his lasso and sending the rope twirling around the dance floor. Bil and Bil are a pair of tumblers in sailor suits who do a slapstick routine to music (unfortunately, the sound cuts out before the end of the story). Note: according to paperwork, there was originally some footage of the Continental dancers, Lucienne and Ashour in a kind of Apache dance in reverse - presumably the man was thrown around! | |
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