Those Were the Days (1934, UK)

A fascinating film showing the Music Hall as it really was. A slightly stuffy magistrate is persuaded by his son to go to the music hall -- considered seriously improper for a respectable man at the time. His daughter's fiancé has just broken off the engagement, and to console herself, the girl and her Mother go to the same music hall; and so does the ex-fiancé too, all unaware of each other's plans. A farcical situation develops.

But the fascination is in the music hall turns as they were actually played at the time, for this is no reconstruction, even though by 1934 music hall was dying out.

The first turn we see is a duet by a pair of Victorian sweethearts, singing, "I'll be your sweetheart / If you will be mine". The boy is played by a woman performer, I think Marie Kendall.

HF November 2006

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