Pictorial Revue Reel 2 (1936)
Pictorial Revue reel 2. Comedian, compere Ronald Frankau (in comedy moustache and hat) tells joke in Jewish, Yiddish accent about a man called Adolph Cohen in Berlin who wanted to change his name ( Adolph, not Cohen ) quite risque considering the political situation at the time. Frankau introduces the O Gorman Brothers. The pair do a comedy, acrobatic act (duplicate of PT 114 see separate record for details). Frankau introduces The Diamondos. Title introduces The Dance of the Presented by the famous Continental Dancers The Diamondos. Several shots of a man (in brief trunks) and woman (in bikini), both covered in amazing glittering paint from head to toe and wearing strange hard wigs. They perform a balancing dance act. (This is probably missing item from PSP 793. ) Frankau appears in cap and curly moustache. In a cockney accent he introduces Ronald Frankau himself Cut to Frankau, dressed in the usual toff getup. He performs a song about girls whose names start
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