Thanks for the great feedback and I am glad everyone is enjoying the past along with me. Working on the Pier you cant help but travel back to those days, even more so when the paddle steamer Waverley calls in, you can just imagine all the day trippers from London filing down the gangway for their days entertainment. Then just before it is time to head back home, take in the Ramblas show.
A sun drenched afternoon (I looked at the shadows) but sadly an undated photograph and just as frustrating the date on the right hand bill board is cut off, but from the artists staring in the 'Jolly Revellers' show later that night I am placing a date of 1935/7 on the scene.
As a lot of acts doubled up and performed in all of the Piers theatres, I am taking a guess that the four ladies in the polka dot dresses are possibly 'The Selma Four' as advertised on the left hand bill board.
A quick internet search has them listed in the BBC Radio Times supplement and to appear on the early days of TV has to prove their popularity of the day, well before "As seen on TV"
Wednesday 13th March 1937
3.0 ST. PATRICK'S DAY
IRISH DANCES
by LIAM CUFFE and MARY HOGAN
Accompanied by Leo Rowsome, Pipes
3.10 THE RADIO THREE
in Close Harmony Songs
3.20 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS
3.30 'PICTURE PAGE'
(Thirty-Seventh Edition)
A Magazine Programme of
Topical and General Interest
Devised, edited, and produced by
CECIL MADDEN
The Switchboard Girl: JOAN MILLER
4.0 CLOSE
9.0 MARIA LUTH
in Songs
9.5 THE SELMA FOUR
in their Musical Speciality
9.20 GAUMONT BRITISH
NEWS
9.30 'PICTURE PAGE'
(Thirty-Eighth Edition)
A Magazine Programme of
Topical and General Interest
Devised, edited, and produced by
CECIL MADDEN
The Switchboard Girl: JOAN MILLER
10.0 CLOSE
CE