Harry Tate (1934)
Titles read: HARRY TATE the famous comedian. Supported by Harry Tate, Junr. and Hughie Green In a new comedy sketch Mixed Ginx by Max Kester. Pathe Studio, London. An office set. Estate Detective Agency. Office boy Hughie Green is working at desk. Harry Tate enters. They exchange crosstalk with references to income tax, ordering sausages etc. Strange gentleman dressed in cloak and fedora hat enters (Harry Tate Junior). Harry Tate addresses him as Hawkeye. He performs a trick of raising his hat by putting his finger in his mouth and blowing then exits Tate explains he is one of his disinfectants. Lady calls and asks for help in locating her missing husband. She describes her husband while the description is mixed up with the details of a house in a bad state of repair. She decides against hiring Tate when he says the charge will be Â10. She claims her husband isn t worth that. The sync sound drifts a little in the middle of the sketch on this combined positive (print
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