The Players’ Theatre - Covent Garden (1938)

Titles (over exterior shots of Covent Garden, London) read ’Now Pathetone is taking you over to - THE PLAYERS’ THEATRE Covent Garden - London’s quaintest little theatre, for a glance at an old time memory “Ridgeway’s Joys“’. Narrator describes that it is one of the smallest theatres “though great in historic interest. Once upon a time it was Evan’s Song and Supper Rooms... Later the home of the National Sporting Club“. We see four men in evening dress sing a comic version of ’As I Went Down To Strawberry Fair’. (I think one of these is actor Alec Clunes - SL). Narrator describes it as a ’glee’. The Chairman announces that “glasses must be emptied to preserve the licence“. We see him drinking his beer. Megs Jenkins appears on stage dressed as a waif, accompanied by a flurry of false snow and sings ’Please Sell No More Drink To My Father’ - a temperance song. Eve Lynd then sings a song about ’The City Toff’. She wears a showgirls costume and carries a long cane. It tells of a man “who knows the way to do L