Battling Butler At The New Oxford Theatre, London (1922 1923)

Scenes from the play Battling Butler at the New Oxford Theatre in London. Jack Buchanan plays a gentleman who assumes the persona of a Butler so that he can train as a boxer. An elaborately dressed woman walks down some stairs in a stage set after an intertitle states Some training reasons . There are footmen either side of the stairs. Another woman comes down the stairs, she smiles at the camera. Another woman comes out looking furtive, then there is a whole succession of women. The suggestion is that the gentleman is a ladies man. C, U of a man s legs and feet. He is wearing boxer shorts and has his hands bound as if about to put boxing gloves on. He does a kind of tap dance. Shot of the boxer dancing with chorus girls behind him. His wife is played by Sydney Fairbrother. In front of a backdrop of a Tudor style building he boxes with a mannequin on a rounded base that cannot fall over. A comedy routine ensues involving training exercises, lifting weights etc. Then he meets the