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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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Russ Brown auditions several 'swing' dancers for Varsha Backoff only to find out later that he is a school swing salesman.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This 22-minute Mentone/Universal short has Teddy Bergman (aka Alan Reed)as the Master of Ceremonies and he also does a straight-and-comic version (in various dialects) of Shakespeare's Shylock. Things liven up with the singing and dancing of Rita Rio (aka Dona Drake), the Hernandez Brothers, Adrienne and the Sixteen Sophisticates...(their number and not their age.)The finales finds Billy Reyes doing his juggling act.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.