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- Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.
- When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life.
- A former student who is now a big Broadway show producer with three flops to his reputation, is invited back to direct the College's annual student stage show.
- Two songwriters want to cast a British star in their new show.
- An actor's double looses a tooth when he is punched during filming. While under anesthesia at the dentist's office, he dreams that he is in movies with several contemporary stars.
- Bob Brent (Dick Powell) recruit from Arkansas is a marine who is shy, reserved and modest. Despite these handicaps, he is a big help to his corps buddies. On moonlit nights and sun-kissed days, he croons for the "girls", who fall for the singing and, in turn, also for the marines. Bob's own heart interest is a beautiful blonde cashier, Peggy Randall (Doris Weston), in a restaurant he patronizes but he is too shy and bashful to tell her. In order to show their appreciation, his buddies take up a collection among themselves to send the bashful Bob to New York City to appear on the popular "Amateur Hour" radio program. broadcast over a national hook-up. He wins First Place. In no time at all, he is besieged by agents and sponsors, is signed for profession engagements, and becomes America's Idol of the Air Waves, making big money and at the height of his glory and popularity as a radio star. He also has gained a highly-developed ego. But he still belongs to the Marine Corps and is shipped to Shanghai. Where, in time, his buddies welcome him again after he has redeemed himself. As does his cashier heart-throb.
- Anita Ragusa, the daughter of a costume company owner, delivers a dress for a costume ball at the last minute. The snobbish customer doesn't like the design at first, but agrees to let Anita model it for her to decide whether to keep it. Charlie, a drunk partygoer, hears Anita singing behind a door. Upon opening it, he sees her in the dress and invites her to attend the festivities. She reluctantly agrees and sings for the other guests.
- The scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937), an enormous production created as part of the Texas Centennial civic celebrations. The opening song, "The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful" emanated from the first edition of the Revue and became a hit song on two continents in 1936. The show had its last performance and the cast doesn't have much hope for their careers in Hollywood or New York. A chorus member suggests that Rose (played by himself) produce a show of his greatest numbers. Without missing a beat, Rose tells the cast to report for rehearsal the next morning. The constantly bickering dance team of Mason & Dixon (Virginia Grey and Lee Dixon) does not look forward to working together so soon. Grey explodes when she learns that Dixon has a new, younger partner. She later learns that the new partner is the adorable Peggy Ryan, a mere fourteen-year-old hoofer. They become a brilliant trio in the show. Fiction aside, the short serves to preserve the colossal aspects of the John Murray Anderson-directed show, with the enormous chorus and some of its original stars, such as the Stuart Morgan Dancers and Harriet Hoctor. At the time the largest theatre-café in the world (they seated 4,200), the revolving stage was 130 feet in diameter and took one minute and forty-five seconds to turn one revolution. Between the 4,264,000 pound revolving stage and the audience was a lagoon that measured 131 feet wide by 175 feet long. The costumes were created by Raoul Pene Du Bois, the sets by Albert Johnson, lighting by Carlton Winkler, and dances directed by Robert Alton. Nearly all the principal technicians, including composer Dana Suesse, would become Rose's staff for his Casa Manana nightclub, which he opened in Manhattan's Paramount Hotel a few years later. In this short, authentic footage was taken in Fort Worth, recording rehearsal and performance of the show's largest production number, "Oriental Yogi" and the show's finale, "It Can't Happen Here" (both by composer Dana Suesse with lyrics by Billy Rose and Stanley Joseloff). In the thrilling finale, sixteen elevators suddenly rose out of the floor, bearing ten drummers and six trumpeters. In the center of the stage, "Miss Liberty," wearing the largest gown ever created, marches up a flight of chromium stairs. In the original program she is listed as Mary Dowell. Once at the top, an elevator propels her to an even higher pinnacle. Carried by twenty-eight men, the gown's train consisted of 1,200 yards of spangled satin. The film short cleverly inter-cuts close-up footage of its contract players with long shots of the original Texas production. While the enormous cast performs its finale, "It Can't Happen Here," the MGM Orchestra is cleverly over-dubbed, playing an instrumental version of "Swingin' The Jinx Away" (Cole Porter) from the 1936 Eleanor Powell feature, "Born To Dance." Missing from the film are original Fort Worth cast members Everett Marshall and The California Varsity Eight.
- Short compilation film of excerpts from Busby Berkeley's musical numbers from 1930s movies, screened theatrically in 1969 with Robert Downey Sr.'s underground comedy Putney Swope (1969).