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Gaiety and Music Hall star Ada Reeve in a rare early talkie short of 1932

A rare piece of film of the great British Music Hall, and former Gaiety star, Ada Reeve. This was made in Melbourne, Australia in 1932, and was one of a series of about fifty Variety shorts entitled "Efftee Entertainers" shot between 1931 and 1934. The film & sound system used is identical to that used at B.I.P. Elstree in the same period. Ada Reeve's films are rare, and were made for the most part in old age when she made a great success as a character actress in such films as "They Came To A City" (1944) and "I Believe In You" (1952) clips from both of which appear in my channel here on YouTube. It is wonderful, therefore to have this film record of her, still in fine voice at 58 singing with her famed use of perfectly timed knowing winks and gestures, this risqué song, which would be typical of her Music Hall repertoire. Efftee Studios had been established by Frank W. Thring (1882 - 1936) at His Majesty's Theatre on Exhibition Street in Melbourne. Thring had been the managing director of Hoyts Theatres, but in 1930, invested in the nascent Australian talking picture industry, creating his Melbourne studios and producing features, shorts, documentaries and newsreels, most of which he directed himself. Efftee was responsible for one of Australia's first full-length talking pictures, Diggers produced in 1931. It was Thring's mission to make a serious attempt to produce talking pictures in Australia on a scale and of such a quality that they would bear favourable comparison with similar products from overseas. Ada Reeve (3 March 1874 - 5 October 1966) first toured Australia with her then husband Bert Gilbert, in October 1897. She returned a number of times, in 1914, 1918. There was a further extended tour of Australia from 1922 to 1924, a shorter tour in 1926, and another extended tour from 1929 playing mainly in vaudeville. She remained there until 1935 and indeed her two daughters, Bessie and Goody both settled in Australia and brought up families there. Ada Reeve's recording output was fairly small. She made some cylinders at the turn of the century, including an impression of Madge Crichton singing "Men" from "Three Little Maids" which suggest it was made about 1902. She recorded a series of Berliners in 1900, accompanied by composer Paul Rubens which included her songs from "Florodora" in which she played Lady Holyrood at the Lyric Theatre, London in 1899. In 1915, Ada recorded a number for sides for HMV at Hayes, Middlesex, all accompanied by an orchestra conducted by her accompanist, Harry Jacobs who conducts the orchestra on this Efftee film short. Harry Jacobs was born Henry Osborne Jacobs in 1888 in Edgbaston, Birmingham. By 1908, already an experienced performer—singing, playing the piano and leading a small band—he was engaged by the music hall star Ada Reeve as her accompanist. Skilled at orchestration, he became her musical director and conductor on tours to South Africa and North America, and of Australia, where he gave patriotic concerts in 1914, 1917 and 1918. On 7 February 1921 at St Paul's Church of England, Marton, near Blackpool, Lancaster, he married Violet Lucie Maud Bishop, a solo dancer with Reeves company (she worked under the stage name of "Saranova". After a long season of "Spangles", a variety show, at Melbourne's Palace Theatre in 1922, Jacobs, his wife and his mother-in-law settled in Australia. During the 1930s Jacobs conducted and orchestrated scores for Eftee Films, composed music for Charles Chauvels film "Heritage" (1935) and was musical arranger for Frank Thrings première production of Varney Monks musical "Collits Inn", with Gladys Moncrieff and George Wallace at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, in 1933. Harry Jacobs died on 17 January 1988 at East Brighton and was cremated.