Miss Betty Siddons (1929-1931)

No titles. Miss Betty Siddons doing exercises. Probably filmed in Pathe Studio, London. An attractive young woman, Betty Siddons, lies in bed on set dressed to look like a bedroom. She gets out of bed (great 20s pyjamas) and puts on a dressing gown or kimono. She stretches them walks out of shot. She walks back into shot, wearing a vest and shorts (with high heels) beneath her dressing gown. She says “Now for the daily dozen“ and takes off the gown. She holds onto the back of a chair and does some knee bends / squats and kicks out to the side. She then turns to us and says “Now between ourselves, don’t you sometimes feel a bit stiff when you bend? Just there?“. She shows us an exercise - standing with the legs apart she bends down to put her head between her knees! She says we must keep our knees straight and does it again in profile. Then a ’swinging’ exercise with the arms - looks like one of those ’I must increase my bust’ routines. Then Betty lies on the ground and does a kind of s