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'''''Twenty to One''''' was a British musical comedy first performed in 1935. The musical was a farce set around the world of [[horseracing]]. Bill Snibson ([[Lupino Lane]]), a [[bookmaker]], joins an anti-[[gambling]] organisation in a fit of guilt. It ran for other four hundred performances at the [[Coliseum Theatre]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]]. Combined with provincial tours it ran for over a thousand shows.<ref>Shafer p.64</ref> It was written by [[Louis Arthur Rose]]. The music was composed by [[Billy Mayerl]].

The lead character of Bill Snibson was such a success, that he was revived in 1937 for another musical ''[[Me and My Girl]]''. This proved to be an even greater hit with its well-known song "[[The Lambeth Walk]]". It was [[The Lambeth Walk (film)|adapted into a film]] in 1939.

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==Bibliography==
* Shafer, Stephen C. ''British popular films, 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance''. Routledge, 1997.

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