Miss Norah Blaney | movie | 1932 | Official Featurette
Popular musical hall singer and pianist Norah Blaney performs a ditty about the gender nonconforming ways of modern youn | dG1fX1lERXZjNkRzZms
Transcript
00:00 [Music]
00:08 Sister is busy, nurse is ashamed.
00:10 Brother just loves his permanent ways.
00:12 It's hard to tell them apart today.
00:15 I'll say, girls were girls and boys were boys when I was a toddler.
00:20 But now it's hard to tell who's who or even what's what.
00:24 Snickers and trousers, baggy and wide.
00:27 The Lord only knows what's walking inside.
00:30 Those masculine women and feminine men.
00:34 Masculine women, feminine men, which is the rooster, which is the hen.
00:38 It's hard to tell them apart today, I'll say.
00:42 Auntie is smoking, rolling her own.
00:44 Uncle, flipping reeks of cologne.
00:47 It's hard to tell them apart today, I'll say.
00:50 Wives play bridge and poker and stand long rounds of bricks.
00:54 Husbands have a cup of tea and play tiddlywits.
00:59 Ma wears a sweater up to her chin. Pa wears a corset holding him in.
01:04 Those masculine women and feminine men.
01:07 (upbeat music)