Wish Wynne (1929-1931)

Titles read: ’And Now Meet Wish Wynne - the famous Radio and Variety Artist in “At the Cinema!“’. Location of events unknown - could be Pathe Studio, London. General view of seats in cinema auditorium. Wish Wynne, a very opinionated woman wearing a beret and a careworn face (!), sits with her dowdy (and silent!) friend Hilda, and points people in the audience they both know. Other patrons are still arriving before the show. Wish makes bitchy comments about the women they know there, and tells a small boy sitting beside her to stop kicking against her foot - “Little brute! Trod on my corn!“. Usherette seen in background selling boxes of sweets to a couple in the back row. The lights go down and the show starts. It’s obviously a silent film; we hear piano accompaniment and Wish keeps up a commentary, reading the titles out loud - “Love and Passion... oh look, there’s Richard Bartlemass“. Through her comments we hear about the others in the film, then the plot, involving a motor race, a dinner pa