Norma Shearer's party is interrupted by the theft of her valuable jewels, and all the guests are questioned, which includes some of the greatest stars of the early 1930's, some of them playing their popular detective characters of the time. Something tells me that many of these stars didn't know each other, but gathering them altogether in a short is quite a feat, even if it was basically a publicity stunt. But when you've got Winnie Lightner (in the bathtub, singing her famous song about bating from "Show of Shows"), Wheeler and Woolsey (repeating their slapping gag), the married couple of Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay (with Stanwyck playing quite a fictional, dizzy version of herself), Joan Crawford, Loretta Young, Our Gang, Mitzi Green, Laurel and Hardy, William Powell, Warner Oland, Gary Cooper, among others, you've got a sight for delighted sore eyes trying to catch a glimpse of everybody. There's still a ton of actors that most people have never heard of, but this makes an interesting introduction to their styles, many dated, but much of it classic. Unassociated with a major movie studio, this is "Paramount on Parade" meets "Show of Shows" meets "The Fox Movietone Follies" meets "Hollywood Revue" minus the musical numbers.