The mayor complains in a phone call that her office doesn't even have a mirror, but seconds later, she and her aides leave the office, passing in front of a huge mirror.
The name 'Fred Lowery' (qv) is misspelled Lowry on an intertitle.
This is one of the later Vitaphone shorts--known as a "Melody Master". These later musical shorts generally were more straight forward and had simpler sets and no real story to tie it all together--just a famous band of the day doing their stuff.
Betty Hutton's about 18 here and is absolutely mesmerizing as 'America's No. 1 Jitterbug.
The very earliest listeners of radio as it became a universal medium heard the words 'Lopez Speaking' and that meant that one of the first musical programs on radio was being broadcast and heard. Vincent Lopez was one of the first if not the first to realize the potential of radio for publicizing his orchestra.
Weirdly wacky--Just happened to see this ancient short, as we used to call them, on Turner Classic Movies. I missed the beginning but did manage to catch Betty's rendition of "Old Man Mose", backed by Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra, which has lyrics by LOUIS ARMSTRONG--Talk about cross cultural adventures!
Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra (1939) *** (out of 4)Warner Bros. short, if you think about it, is just an early "music video", which features the popular Lopez doing various numbers with his band.
This old one reeler featuring numbers from Vincent Lopez and his orchestra is a precursor to modern music videos and is ten minutes of pure gold. I caught it as a 'One Reel Wonders' segment on the US cable channel Turner Classic Movies, which must mean it is an old MGM short.
