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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- Jack Good is a booking agent trying to sell his clients to Charles Kemper, who is suffering from the inability to concentrate on the business at hand. The performing acts include a very-young Eileen Barton, plus: The Big Apple Dancers, the Paul Florenz Girls, dancers Richards and Adrienne, the Fashionaires, Flash and Dash, and the Royal Duo.
- 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.
- A Mentone Productions, Inc. musical shorts, directed by Milton Schwarzwald, filmed in New York for Universal Pictures distribution that featured Gus Van emceeing a garden party, and the acts included The Eight Lovely Girls (doing something) and another act known as Miller & Massey.
- James Barton appears in four burlesque skits; one in which, aided by The Arkansas Travelers band, he does a parody of a "Mammy" singer; another one, supported by the Will and Gladys Ahearn dance team, in which he does a Mexican adagio number. A third one has him getting involved in a barroom situation in which two two drunks, a man and wife, are battering each other. The 4th one involves a vaudeville act known as "Berverly & Revel."
- This Mentone Brevity short from Milton Schwartzwald that was released by Universal Pictures on March 17,1937 and distributed only by Universal Pictures and not MCA/Universal, featured, in addition to radio and burley comic Harry Rose III, (who is the same as Harry Rose IV and should be numbered Harry Rose One since he was around before all those other Harry Roses') and Roy Smeck, the Dixieland Jazz Band and Campbell's Royalists.
- 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 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.
- The short is a collection of appearances by Broadway's leading lights, with Ed Sullivan as a tour guide.
- 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.
- A Mentone Brevity musical-and-comedy short using vaudeville-and-radio performers in a swanky nightclub setting; performers include Oshins & Lessy, a comedy team; singers Virginia Verrill and the Four Eton Boys' dancers---all kinds---done by the Samuel Brothers, Edith Fleming, and Don and Dolores Forsome; a young concert pianist named Rose Linda (no, not Linda Rose) a some multi-trumpet playing by Vic Hyde.
- Another of the Mentone Brevity shorts made for Universal Pictures distribution that highlights the song and dance vaudeville team of Smith & Dale (Joe Smith and Charlie Dale), who started as a blackface act in 1898, appeared in films as late as 1951, and served as the role models for "The Sunshine Boys." Virginia Verrill, Jeanne McCully and Ferry Corwey also on hand to contribute their specialities.
- 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.
- 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.