Beaute De Femmes (1936)
Full title reads: “A topical peep at Beaute de Femmes, the new revue at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London“.
Various shots of glamorous chorus girls strolling down, one at a time, a large staircase on stage - they all wear vaguely military style costumes. Narrator; “these are some of the Luscious Lovelies in their number ’Trafalgar Square’.“ Various shots of an ensemble song number.
Various shots of young man, the magician Erikson, performing a trick on stage - he tuns a ball of paper into a real egg (he proves it is real by cracking it into a glass).
Various shots of a young woman doing a tap dancing routine on stage. The woman is Retta Ray (according to the narrator she is the protégé of film star Eleanor Powell).
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