3-022-186 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

The Actors Sir Gerald Du Maurier and Benita Hulme Acting in a Play. They Kiss, 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...Full bills with plenty of talent...Amid the streamlining, still the sureness and competence of the old school. Sir Gerald DuMaurier, in a scene with the future Mrs Ronald Coleman, Benita Hume'. DuMaurier: "As for you you're nothing but a damned little fool, what's the use of kissing a man on the top of his head?" [Hume kisses him]. From "Time To Remember - A New Era", 1931 (Reel 4); documentary about the world in the early 1930s.