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Actors on the Stage Performing the Play 'While Parents Sleep'. the Female Character is Wearing a Swastika on Her Cardigan, 1931. ''A new era - one of progress, light, excitement, and show business rising to new sparkling heights. When you paid your money, the entertainment you found seemed worth every penny, whether you dressed for the stalls or hung over the gallery rail. A world of...variety as yet hardly scratched by its death struggle with the new-fangled talking pictures. Full bills with plenty of talent. Shows, express and non-stop...the long-running "While Parents Sleep", a comedy considered very frank, modern and symbolic of the new era, it's dashing blades, young Mr Hugh Williams, and young Mr. Jack Hawkins'. The original cast also included Nigel Playfair and Diana Beaumont. From "Time To Remember - A New Era", 1931 (Reel 4); documentary about the world in the early 1930s.