Full House 1935
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 Full House 1936 Publicity for Australian Production |
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 Spanks for the money - 1940s style |
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So was she spankee of the year? (Quote below from
MainstreamSpanking: "There is a fair amount of dialog to be got through while April is being spanked, not to mention the entrance of the other three characters down the onstage staircase, so it is necessarily quite an extended spanking! And it was considered one of the real highlights of the play. 'You must go to see Heather Thatcher get her spanking in the good old-fashioned way from Isabel Jeans' exhorted the critic in The Stage, while The Times summed up the play as being about 'how Lady April came, was smacked, but conquered'. (She ends up, as you may have guessed, with John; Archie and Lola don't need that divorce after all.) The society journal The Tatler really went to town on the spanking, illustrating its review with a caricature of the scene captioned 'When Girl Spanks Girl'. 'For me,' wrote the reviewer, 'none of Mr Novello's desperately bright dialogue had the comic vitality of the moment when Lola wrestled with the Olympic runner and heartily spanked her across the divan.' The following week, it gave up a whole page to photographs of the scene, part of a set specially posed on 11th September, three weeks into the London run." |
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