Mcgill And Yule Issue Title - Calling All Cards (1937)

Story featuring musical comics McGill and Yule. Part of the CALLING ALL CARDS issue. Probably filmed in Pathe Studios, London. Radio comedians Major and Minor, otherwise known as Alec McGill and Fred Yule perform a few quick musical bits and pieces intermixed with fairly weak jokes. Both men are wearing evening dress. They do a routine about The Volga Boatman with Major pulling minor onto the set on a toy boat. Both are wearing false beards and Cossack hats. They sing a song about Russia, a song about ’Vodka, villainy and vice’. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957),