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- Bob Hope is the Master-of-Ceremonies at New Yock City's Carlton Club, which is going belly-up because the wife, Allyn Gillyn, of the owner, Donald Brian, won't let him book any female singers or acts because he has a penchant for hitting on them, and this makes her somewhat jealous and protective.
- This Mentone Brevity production uses a nautical atmosphere to highlight the acts, routines and songs of the various performers. It begins with Arthur and Morton Havel doing their vaudeville routine, cuts to the dancing team of Moore & Revel, the comedy antics of Stump & Stumpy (Eddie Hartman and James Cross), presents a song by Judy Starr, and ends with a balancing routine by the acrobats, The Ghezzis.
- In a New York City cabaret setting, Jay. C. Flippen (using his Colonel Flippen character, as J. C. Flippen) emcees and introduces various stage, vaudeville and radio acts and performers, including Rose Marie), when still billed as Baby Rose Marie, who does a couple of song-and-dance numbers.. A singing trio called The Manhattanites sings a song and Bill POwers and His Steppers do some stepping. Flippen and Lew Seiler pair up to do a vaudeville routine. And all done in exactly 18 minutes.
- The fictional plot, which means, no matter what name they use, nobody is playing 'Self', finds the 'Tic-Toc Girls' as the telephone switchboard operators at a fictional hotel, which has a lot of guests using their own names. As the fictional calls come in and are answered by the girls, they connect them to the fictional rooms of the various artists, and the various artists do their bits. Featured are Murray Lane and His Harmoniacs.
- Another of the many Mentone Productions, Inc. (practically a one-man operation for Milton Schwarzwald) musical shorts filmed in New York, and made for Universal Pictures distribution, who did distribute it in spite of the source somewhere that seems to think it was distributed by MCA/Universal, an operation that didn't exist in 1936. The cast included Sybil Bowan,(as the publicity director for a transatlantic dirigible company. She invites, by mail, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Bea Lillie and Mae WEst to appear on the company's radio program. THey all decline but, since it's radio, she just imitates them. Once that is done she acts as Mistress-of-Ceremonies and introduces dancers Audrey and Wesley Catri, the Four Eton Boys and Cappy Barra's Harmonica Band.
- Set in a theater and Harlem's Cotton Club. Mary Lou Cook and the Merry Macs perform "Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm" and Carolyn Marsh sings "Stardust"; The Eight Men of Manhattan weigh in with "Loch Lomond" and "Annie Laurie," while Mirth and Mack do a military-style tap dance, and York and King heckle the emcee. Over at Harlem's Cotton Club, the Cotton Club Tramp Band swing on "Boogie Woogie."
- This Universal shorts has something for everybody if they haven't grown tired of seeing it, with The Merry Macs (Ted, Judd and Joe McMichael and Mary Lou Cook)being a fresh exception. Doug Leavitt and Ruth Lockwood perform the skit of a deaf couple who meet at a nightclub and misunderstand everything they say to each other; The Loria Borthers, six Mexican kids who had one routine they performed over and over and perform it again here; McDonald & Ross do a tap dance on a miniature flight of stairs; Mildred Fenton sings "The Lady from 5th Avenue"; and saxophone player Raymond Baird appears.
- The short is a collection of appearances by Broadway's leading lights, with Ed Sullivan as a tour guide.
- The Sisters of the Skillet (Ed East and Ralph Dumke)are in a night club doing their swing act as the sing at the piano. The town sheriff warns them that they can't swing in his town, and when they persist, they and the other performers are thrown into jail. In the jail, they carry on as if nothing had changed, and adapt their specialties to the jail atmosphere. In addition to East and Dumke's "Sisters of the Skillet" act, the other performers include Ada Brown, Carl Freed's Harmonica Band, Jack and Jane Boyle, Phil Seed and Juanita and Her Champions.
- Yvonne Manoff) hosts an informal house party with Ernie Stanton)acting as the emcee. Ken Browne) shows up with his Society Pets and insists on acting as the emcee with Stanton. Jacqueline Allen) sings a Russian song and Paul Howard does an eccentric dance; Nayan Pearce)and Don Carthy) perform a ballroom dance. The Pope Sisters) sing one of their "hot' numbers and Will Cater follows with a cowboy song. Ken Browne's Society Pets close the short with a comedy routine and almost wreck the drawing-room with their goody musical-and-harmony act.
- Setting is an NYC beauty shop where the owner, employees and customers do their specialties. The acts include Imogene Coca, the wise-cracking shop-owner and Bucvk & Bubble doing their singing, dancing and comedy. Other include radio's singing aggregation Mae McKim and Her Three Boy Friends' Doris Dupont, Broadway tap-dancer; actress Hildergarde Halliday doing character bits' and singer Marty May and the Harrison & Fisher dance team.
- Utililizing from fair-to-passable-to-get the hook performers and acts, Mentone Musicals producer Milton Schwartzwald offers them all in a menagerie setting, with several humans, dressed in wild animal skins acting as audience members. Toss in Mark Plant---next seen on film years later---as an master-of-ceremonies dressed (or undressed as the case may be) like Tarzan. First act in this zoo is The Nagasake Tramp Band (all black performers)who do a couple of novelty instrument specialties, followed by Ruth Daye (aka Ruth Day) who does a tap dance that leaves Leo and the other audience lions roaring. Schwartzwald, never one not to know how to change the pace, then brings on The Ashburns, who trip through some ballroom dancing. Singer Evelyn Poe picks the pace back up with a hot-swing number. Evidently, on the premise that if one novelty band is good then two should be twice as good, The Kidoodlers make their entrance. The difference between The Kidoodlers and the Nagasake Tramp Band is that the latter plays real instruments and the former all sorts of odd home-made instruments. Neither made a lasting impression in the world of entertainment.
- A Mentone Brevity short that features an early-day Henny Youngman (billed as Henry Youngman). Gogo DeLys (the correct version of her name), old-timer Lew Hearn and Powers' Prom Girls also take a turn. Youngman is the emcee at the Yacht Club nightclub who is also trying to get Lew Hearn to buy a television set...on which unbooked vaudeville acts are performing.
- This Mentone Brevity from Milton Schwarzwald that was distributed only by Universal Pictures and not by the non-existant-in-1937 MCA/Universal and was released on April 14, 1937, featured, in addition to Val Irving, The Maple Leaf Trio, The Five Flats and The Whirling Walkers.
- Thie Mentone Brevity short from the Milton Schwarzwald New York shop featured, in addition to Frances Williams and Billy Reed, The Rhythm Boys and the Elaine & Barry speciality act, and was distributed only by Universal Pictures Company, Inc., rather than MCA/Universal which did not exist at the time.
- This Mentone Brevity short, produced and directed by Milton Schwarzwald in New York, was made for and distributed by Universal Pictures, and not MCA/Universal which did not exist in 1937. It was released on February 17, 1937 and, in addition to Virginia Verrill, featured The Charioteers and the team of Barry & Whitlege.
- A grab-bag of singers and dancers featuring, at the time, New York-based performers such as Rae Sanuels, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, the four Mullen Sisters and the team of Evans & Mayer. Dancers Pops & Louie (Albert Whitman and Louis Williams), later to be seen in Republic's "Hit Parade of 1943", are also along.
- A Monopoly game provides the background for a group of vaudeville performers.