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Clapham and Dwyer. Part of the PLAY AND PLAYFULNESS issue. Probably shot in the Pathe Studio, London. Clapham, in top hat, white tie, tails and monocle appears from behind a curtain with a little difficulty - seems a bit tipsy! Several people sit at tables, as if in a nightclub, but this looks like a studio set. Clapham asks a bellboy to fetch Mr Dwyer, then tells some slurred jokes to the audience. He introduces a sketch called 'The Dash To The North' that he and Dwyer act out on a chair and box before the audience. Dwyer plays a respectable-looking gent going to Leeds on a train who is joined by Clapham as a drunk toff with a balloon. They engage in some humorous patter and crosstalk. Clapham thinks the railways are marvellous because they are on the same train - one going to Leeds and one going to Torquay. 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.
