Women Private Investigators (1927)
No title. C, U of road sign at the top of a wall. Baker Street. The door of number 69 Baker Street is seen. Dissolve into a shot of a group of women coming out of a tobacconist shop. A man outside the shop seems to be handing them leaflets. The first stage in the training of a detective is the prosaic one of teaching the things you may and may not do on your business round said Mr M, S of a group of young women sitting and taking notes as Mr Kersey stands beside a blackboard. Closer shot of Mr Kersey and the blackboard. (There is lots of writing on the blackboard but it is too small to read on this Steenbeck. ) At the top is a Motto, alas I can t make it out. M, S of Mr Kersey lecturing the women. Disguise is, of course, a necessary M, S of one of the girls dressed now as a man. Another girl holds up a mirror as she makes up her face. She wears a man s suit and flat cap. Also the way to handle obstreperous shoplifters and crooks. (Some of these ladies are mo
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