The Western Brothers (1932)
Full titles read: Now Pathetone presents The Western Brothers, (Kenneth George) of Radio, Gramophone Variety fame . Pathe Studio, London. Kenneth and George Western (wearing usual evening dress and monocles) sing It Was All Hushed Up, a song about the various scandals whispered in the clubs, mentioned in the restaurants and hiccupped in the pubs. During the song, various personalities of the era are mentioned, including: Lady Astor, Sophie Tucker, Primo Carnera, Layton and Johnstone, Bernard Shaw, Nellie Wallace, Hoover, The Labour Party, George Lansbury, Maggie Bondfield amongst others. They also tell a joke about a First World War deserter who leaves the front line and is stopped by an officer. When he learns he has been stopped by a Staff Officer, he replies Blimey, have I got as far back as that . This is great quintessential Western Brothers song and patter (Followed by an intertitle trailer (at 01:34:32) for the stories coming next week in Pathetone: How to make a hu
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