While Parents Sleep (1932)

Filmed excerpt from a humorous play, While Parents Sleep, at the Royalty Theatre. Full titles read: Now we re taking you over to the West End for a topical peep at While Parents Sleep the New Comedy at the Royalty Theatre, London. Lady Cattering (Miss Frances Doble) has fallen in love with Neville (Hugh Williams), and whilst Neville s brother, Jerry (Jack Hawkins) and his lady friend Bubbles (Diana Beaumont) are out, Lady Cattering and Neville are otherwise London. The scene opens with Neville (Hugh Williams in dinner suit) and Lady Cattering (Frances Doble in ostrich feathertrimmed negligee) kissing (good clinch ). She is lying on a settee, with her head resting on his lap. They talk of her husband, Lord Cattering and hope nobody comes in to disturb them. Just then, they hear Neville s brother and his girlfriend coming in, and instead of fleeing the lounge, they lie down on the settee and hope they are not discovered. Neville s brother Jerry, played by an impossibly youn