16-12-2019, 12:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 16-12-2019, 01:25 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
Some great ideas about the picture, but it was actually an advertisement for a musical called "Darling, I love you! at the Gaiety Theatre on the Strand, London". The picture needed some Photoshop work to make it into the proper Chummy that the artist intended. The driver was one George Clarke, famous for working up a comedy routine driving an Austin 7 on stage. The theatre was, of course, famous for its "Gaiety Girls" - especially attractive young women who were not hired for their intellectual prowess. See: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archi...ge-austin7
This piece of silent film is priceless; a late 1929 to early 1930 chummy with wild axle tramp dancing across the stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bimTqdrknI Note the larger-than-usual Austin script on the radiator.
![[Image: dancing-7.jpg]](http://www.lathes.uk/dancing-7.jpg)
![[Image: darling-original.jpg]](http://www.lathes.uk/darling-original.jpg)
![[Image: darling.jpg]](http://www.lathes.uk/darling.jpg)
This piece of silent film is priceless; a late 1929 to early 1930 chummy with wild axle tramp dancing across the stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bimTqdrknI Note the larger-than-usual Austin script on the radiator.