Eve Takes Up Baseball (1928)

Filmed at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea, London. Actresses from “Yellow Mask“ and “So this is Love“ try their hand at baseball. 6 women with arms round each other bow to the camera. By a camera trick their ordinary clothes are magically transformed into baseball uniforms. The instructor tells the players that the first step for successful baseball is to chew gum. C/U of coach putting chewing gum into a player’s mouth. Game begins with a bit of rough play. C/U of group of girls chewing gum. Elvin Hedges demonstrates technique to the actresses from the Winter Gardens and His Majesty’s Theatre. The group of girls fall over as he takes a swipe at the ball. One of the girls takes a swing. Bernard Nedell steps up to give some tips on pitching technique. The girls practice their “sliding technique“. Intertitle reads: “A run on the field is worth two in the stocking“. A game is played with girls looking on and cheering. The game is stopped while a player attends to her make-up. Laddie Clif