A couple of performers perform the big love number from the Oscar Strauss operetta.
The first thing you will probably notice is these do not seem to be the young, slim sort of performers we imagine this sort of show to feature. Although I am iunfamiliar with them, they were doubtless stars of the form, and nobody really cared that they seemed to be about twenty years too old and twenty pounds too heavy for the modern image.... which is, by the way,a modern idea. Piling on the pounds in those days was something only someone who had the money to eat too well could do.
THe other thing you might notice is the rather narrow area of the screen the performance takes. That's easily explained by the relatively heavy and primitive recording equipment of those days. Step too far from the microphone and you would be inaudible.
Bob
The first thing you will probably notice is these do not seem to be the young, slim sort of performers we imagine this sort of show to feature. Although I am iunfamiliar with them, they were doubtless stars of the form, and nobody really cared that they seemed to be about twenty years too old and twenty pounds too heavy for the modern image.... which is, by the way,a modern idea. Piling on the pounds in those days was something only someone who had the money to eat too well could do.
THe other thing you might notice is the rather narrow area of the screen the performance takes. That's easily explained by the relatively heavy and primitive recording equipment of those days. Step too far from the microphone and you would be inaudible.
Bob
