Ronald Frankau (1938)

Flash frame titles read: “RONALD FRANKAU OF RADIO, RECORD AND WEST END FAME“. London, probably Pathe Studio. The act starts with Ronald Frankau and his pianist (Monte / Monty Crick?) sitting opposite each other in armchairs; Frankau says “...so he hypnotised the bear...“, then turns and realises we are there, so they both get up and go to the piano. Frankau recites a monologue to music about Shakespeare and his plays, saying Shakespeare was a playboy with a ’naughty mind’. He sings some of the monologue, then goes into a funny bit of patter about the plot of ’Romeo and Juliet’ - full of puns and wordplay. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic