The Players Theatre Covent Garden (1938)

Titles (over exterior shots of Covent Garden, London) read Now Pathetone is taking you over to THE PLAYERS THEATRE Covent Garden London s quaintest little theatre, for a glance at an old time memory Ridgeway s Joys . Narrator describes that it is one of the smallest theatres though great in historic interest. Once upon a time it was Evan s Song and Supper Later the home of the National Sporting Club. We see four men in evening dress sing a comic version of As I Went Down To Strawberry Fair. (I think one of these is actor Alec Clunes SL). Narrator describes it as a glee. The Chairman announces that glasses must be emptied to preserve the licence. We see him drinking his beer. Megs Jenkins appears on stage dressed as a waif, accompanied by a flurry of false snow and sings Please Sell No More Drink To My Father a temperance song. Eve Lynd then sings a song about The City Toff. She wears a showgirls costume and carries a long cane. It tells of a man who knows the way to do L