3-022-535 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Scene from the Film 'Champagne': Betty Balfour in a Nightclub Drinking Champagne, 1920s. 'The average English rose, screen variety, was a sort of tomboy, indeed just like Betty Balfour, warm-hearted, and capable of expressing vivacious emotions, yet always knowing just exactly where mother had advised her to stop, and to a hair's breadth...the world...was a pretty dangerous place, grossly over-populated with prowling wolves, a girl just had to be careful. Nevertheless, our tomboy was always seeking to give an impression of being anything but innocent, for otherwise she ran the risk of seeming a bore, by this she shocks and disgusts her faithful boyfriend...'. From "Time To Remember - Came The Dawn", 1925 (Reel 3); peek at the British Film Industry of the 1920s - clips from great silent films and newsreels.