Music Hall (1934)

Wonderful nostalgia. An old music hall managed by Bill (George Carney) has hit the skids and must close down. However in a last gasp to save the old place from being demolished and turned into shops and apartments the old founder of the hall Mr Davis (Wilson Coleman) returns to relaunch a refreshed music hall with new acts...

So basically the film has a bit of story just as a set-up before a list of acts. Including comedians, singers like G.H. Elliot, Dutchmen with accordions, footballers on bicycles, dancers (including the The Sherman Fisher Girls), performing animals and acrobats! If we are to be honest some of the acts were pretty ropey (bear in mind these were supposed to be fresher and better than the usual ones!)

You can't beat the nostalgia though. A glimpse of a now lost Britain from the interwar period, some things we now miss (xylophones) and others things we don't miss so much (blackface).