Robb Wilton (1934)

No titles. Pathe Studio, London. Comedian Ronald Frankau introduces Robb Wilton with a little poem about comics stealing each other’s gags and makes a pun on Wilton’s name. On a set dressed to look like a jungle scene we see Robb Wilton come out of a tent wearing lion-hunting clothes (pith helmet, jodhpurs, boots). He reads out loud from a little book, ’Hints To Lion and Tiger Hunters’ - such as, “Should a lion attack you in the rear, walk on as if nothing has happened“. He says “It’s a natty little tanner’s worth, this is!“. Robb says he has thinned the lions down a bit since he’s been there. He talks of how he became a lion hunter by talking to a fellow on the street corner who was getting up a lion and tiger hunting expedition. The captain of the expedition said Robb looked more like a lion’s dinner to him, but agreed to take him. Robb went home and told his missus who was delighted and her mother thought it ought to be a splendid thing for him. She said “If ever you do come back, what a