[Dixielandjazz] Anybody recognize this 1925 ensemble?

[Bill Haesler]

  David Richoux wrote [in part]:
>> ........... the Better 'Ole and Old Bill were portrayed in many  
>> films and plays touring the States. Some would even say that Old  
>> Bill won the First World War, whilst in the second he became mascot  
>> to the US 8th Air Force.
>
> So it may have been a publicity shot for a  film of the same name.

Dear Dave,
You were right (again).
This from the IMDb at:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016643/fullcredits#cast

"The Better 'Ole" (1926)
Directed by
Charles Reisner	 	(as Charles 'Chuck' Reisner)

Writing credits
Bruce Bairnsfather	 (comics) uncredited

Bruce Bairnsfather	 (play) &
Arthur Eliot	 	 (play)

Darryl F. Zanuck	 (screenplay) (as Darryl Francis Zanuck) &
Charles Reisner	 	 (screenplay) (as Charles 'Chuck' Reisner)

Robert E. Hopkins	  (titles) (as Robert Hopkins)

Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification
	Syd Chaplin	... 	Pvt. William 'Old Bill' Busby
	Harold Goodwin	... 	Bert Chester (British Secret Service agent)
	Jack Ackroyd	... 	Alfie 'Little Alf'
	Edgar Kennedy	... 	Cpl. Austin (as Ed. Kennedy)
	Charles K. Gerrard	... 	The major (as Charles Gerrard)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Arthur Clayton	... 	The colonel (uncredited)
	Doris Hill	... 	Joan (uncredited)
	Olaf Hytten	... 	German officer (uncredited)
	Tom Kennedy	... 	The blacksmith (uncredited)
	Theodore Lorch	... 	Gaspard (uncredited)
	Hank Mann	... 	German soldier tying up horse (uncredited)
	Tom McGuire	... 	The English general (uncredited)
	Kewpie Morgan	... 	Gen. Stein (uncredited)
	Al Thompson	... 	The daughter in the skit (uncredited)
Original Music by
Maurice Baron	 	(uncredited)

Then this contemporary review at:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F01EEDA173CEE3ABC4053DFB667838D639EDE

Another pic of the Club Orch and the polar bear at:
http://vitaphone.blogspot.com/2008/01/midnight-taxi.html
Scroll halfway down. Or use <find>

Kind regards,
Bill.