Battling Butler - At The New Oxford Theatre,… 1922-1923

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Scenes from the play "Battling Butler" at the New Oxford Theatre in London.

Jack Buchanan plays a gentleman who assumes the persona of a Butler so that he can "train" as a boxer. An elaborately dressed woman walks down some stairs in a stage set after an intertitle states "Some "training"...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
14566
Sort Number:
EP 038
Time in/Out:
01:19:22:00 / 01:22:10:00
Canister:
EP 038
Film ID:
842.12
Issue Date:
11/01/1923

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