• Short Summary

    Strange routine by entertainers Scott and Whaley.

  • Description

    Pathe Studio?

    Entertainers Harry Scott and Eddie Whaley are introduced by an unidentified M.C. Paperwork calls them "two Star Variety and B.B.C. artists".

    Scott and Whaley are two black entertainers. One of them is in "black face" which is rather bizarre. Perhaps the man in "black face" is actually white but it is all very weird so it is hard to tell. The man in black face wears a trampish suit that is too big, the other man looks very smart in tails and bow tie. The former is the "fool" and the latter very intelligent and smart.

    The two have some comic banter about drinking water with whiskey, they then perform a song which may be called "Crocodile Isle". Very odd.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1612.07
    Media URN:
    51637
    Group:
    Pathe sound pictorials
    Archive:
    British Pathe
    Issue Date:
    20/07/1933
    Sound:
    sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:04:06:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:13:25:00 / 01:17:31:00
    Canister:
    PSP 798

Comments (3)

  1. Roger Fillary says

    MC is Leonard Henry.
    It was not unusual in early Vaudeville for Black artistes to black up.

  2. jamied says

    "Scott and Whaley" were Eddie Whaley and Harry Scott.

  3. British Pathé says

    Thanks.

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