Cameos - From "Betty In Mayfair" 1925

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Extracts from the musical stage play "Betty in Mayfair" at the Adelphi Theatre.

Evelyn Laye and Mary Leigh play Betty and Kitty. We see the two perform a dance inside a framing device of a picture frame. Again within a frame, some gentlemen arrive to pay their attentions to the ladies. They...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
14906
Sort Number:
EP 087
Time in/Out:
01:23:14:00 / 01:25:42:00
Canister:
EP 087
Film ID:
870.11
Issue Date:

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