Miss Victorian And Miss Modern (1937)
Full title reads: Miss Victorian and Miss Modern. A meeting between a Victorian lady and thoroughly modern girl. Actress Tosca Bissing (currently playing character of Mrs Bridget Blair in Parnell at new theatre) is Miss Victorian; she wears period dress. Miss Modern is a glamorous, chain smoking blonde in shorts and halter neck, carrying a tennis racket Various shots of Tosca and Miss Modern in a Victorian living room set. They debate the pros and cons of life for women today The conversation is full of wise cracks (Tosca: There was a time every woman darned her husband s socks Miss Modern: Now she socks her darned husband ). It covers topics such as; fashion, gossip, makeup, marriage and women s new found independence. In the end Tosca is won over by modernity. MUSIC: Do It Again. Farrar. De Wolfe. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.
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