Sidelights From The Song Of The Sea (1928)

Excerpts from the musical play “The Song of the Sea“ at His Majesty’s Theatre in London which features A.W. Baskcomb, Mary Leigh and Claude Hulbert. L/S of chorus girls wearing floaty dresses and bonnets doing an elegant dance. The girls then do a balletic style dance in different outfits, longish dresses with little bonnets. We see their feet in C/U as they do some refined high kicks in their ballet points. The girls then hold the bottom of their skirts and twirl around, revealing striped linings to their skirts and frilly bloomers! They turn and twist to show the flowing affect of the skirt and their knickers. We see their legs and undies in C/U. (A favourite technique of the Pathe cameramen of the day to give the audience a bit of a thrill!) The girls then flop down on the stage with their legs extended and their bodies bowed over their legs. Like the “Dying Swan.“ A.W. Baskcomb, Mary Leigh and Claude Hulbert do a little comedy turn. Mary does some high kicks and attempts to woo one of