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Title: WHIRL OF GAIETY: Season 1931 Last Night of Show

Reference number: 12543

Date: 1931

Director: filmed by A. J. Fairbairn of Fairbairn Ltd., Ayr & Troon

Production company: Ben Popplewell & Sons, Gaiety Theatre, Ayr

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.52 mins

Description: Highlights of the last night of the 1931 'Gaiety Whirl' variety show at the Gaiety Theatre, Ayr, featuring comedian Dave Willis, Betty Jumel, Nita Croft, the Nicholls Sisters and Bennie Loban and his Band.

Written on leader ATTIC ARCHIVES 'DAVE WILLIS'. Possibly used in the BBC television series ATTIC ARCHIVES with Jimmy Logan?

Shotlist: title - STARRING DAVE WILLIS, NITA CROFT, BETTY JUMEL, BENNIE LOBAN AND HIS BAND AND CAST OF 40 - credits - various dance routines and comedy sketches - HORNPIPE - female troupe perform modernised sailor's hornpipe routine and tap dance - routine with band members wearing busbies - THE SCOUT - Dave Willis dressed as Boy Scout for comedy sketch - Nicholls Sisters dance routine - Willis and Betty Jumel in balloon sketch - HOW TO 'PUT' BY BOBBY JONES - golfing sketch with Willis - musical number with Bennie Loban on violin - female dance troupe in military routine - LOVES OLD SWEET SONG - Jumel song and dance routine - various routines - presents handed on to stage by ushers - all of cast on stage - SHAKE AND LET US BE FRIENDS - cast shake hands with audience, Auld Lang Syne.