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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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The premise is that if movie theatres, to attract customers, go in for prize-winning 'Bank-Nights," than banks should have entertainment days. Gus , acting as the emcee and singing a couple of songs, is the president of a bank that does just that, and exposes his depositors to pop singer Bernice Parks; dancer Ruth Daye; Minor & Root, skilled dancers and The Five Ames Sisters who are acrobatic dancers; the Barton Parks Quartete do some warbling, and the grand finale fins The Three Wiles doing a routine based on "The Dance of the Wooden Soldiers."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- Another of the Mentone Brevity shorts made by Milton Schwarzwald for Universal Pictures Company, Inc. distribution (and not distributed by MCA/Universal, which did not exist in 1936), filmed in New York and using NY radio, vaudeville and club talent mostly. This nine-minute short (not ten minutes), released on November 25, 1936 (not November 1,1936), feature Dan "Lazy Dan" Kaufman, (no, not the 1990's visual effects guy), Cecil Mack (yes, the lyricist from "Birth of the Blues) and Kay Mayfield (no, not Kay Mansfield.)It has a FICTIONAL plot centering around "Lazy Dan" Kaufman, member of The Avon Four trying to sell himself to Eddie Bruce, who he thinks is the owner of a nightclub. Singer Kay Mayfield, then appearing on Broadway in "New Faces of 1937", signs a song , while Kaufman slips on some black-face and joins Cecil Mack and the Cecil Mack Choir in a song. Kaufman then sees Bruce carrying a waiter's towel and concludes he has been pitching his talent to the wrong man.
- 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 young couple go from one NYC nightclub/restaurant to another watching the singing/dancing acts in each, arguing all the way as the girl is hungry and continually asking her boyfriend for a steak at each stop. At the last stop, she gets milk-and-crackers instead.
- 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 revue set in a Spanish night club, with Spanish and Latin-American performers. In addition to Tito Coral, Armida, Laura Suarez and Gloria Belmonte, the acts included Theodore & Denesha, Blanco & Batet and the Seven Songsters.
- The short is a collection of appearances by Broadway's leading lights, with Ed Sullivan as a tour guide.
- 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.