I am always amazed by the Daily Mirror’s “brain trust,” which is my nickname for our readers. I never fail to be impressed by how much people know – or can find out. These mystery guests are a perfect example because I was starting to think I’d stumped everybody and Evelyn Tremble came along Thursday and identified them. Please congratulate her. (She says it was easy, thanks to Google).

In selecting the mystery photos, I always look for a set of five pictures with at least one especially interesting image. In this case, the first photo of these dancers – as children – was the reason. As Arye (Leslie) Michael Bender  pointed out in a comment, these is a certain JonBenet Ramsey quality to the way the young girl is made up like an adult.

Update: a reader comments: This week's entry is ridiculous. You violate the your concept of Movie
Mystery Photo with these two unknowns and unknowables who have a total
movie history of two insignifcant scenes in two irrelevant and unseen
movies in 1935. Can't you play fair with your own game and your readers?

Here's your answer: You raise an interesting question. I suppose
most people
see the mystery photos as nothing more than a fairly difficult trivia
contest
but it's not. (And for the record, my first criterion is that I don't
recognize
them–I wouldn't get a single one of these pictures).

The mystery photos are actually all
about fame — and how ephemeral it
really is. Every one of these people had their picture in a major
American
newspaper numerous times. And yet most of them are utterly forgotten
today.
People spend so much of their lives trying to be famous — or obsessing
about
famous people — and it's all so terribly fleeting.

 

This dance team performed under a variety of names. Here’s a video of them. They’re best known as Billy and Beverly Bemis, although they also performed as Edith and Bill Wilshire.   This Times item from June 10, 1927, gave their names as Billie Bevans and Vivian Mitchell.
 

I'm not entirely certain they were even brother and sister. The back of the photo gives one address for Billy and another for Beverly, who is listed as Vivian Mitchell, but has the same phone number.

Billy decided to give up dancing and get married about 1938 and Beverly tried to build a career on her own, although she evidently didn’t have much success. I can’t find anything further about them in The Times.  These were mystery guests who really were mystery guests!