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- Cigarette girl Ruth Eaton is an aspiring singer who hopes her cocksure theatrical agent Dave can get her an audition with an impresario who can give her a break.
- Babe Ruth returns from hunting to a cabin shared with musicians Zez Confrey and Byron Gay where he regales them with stories. With Babe's help, they write a song about baseball which then debuts on a radio show.
- Three women performing in a Broadway show face temptation, love, money, betrayal and tragedy as the cost of fame.
- In this musical short, a condensed version of Cole Porter's "Fifty Million Frenchmen" (1929), a wealthy young American meets the girl of his dreams and makes a bet that they will be engaged without her knowing of his riches.
- The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder, executed, and afterward swiftly taken by demons to the Hell where he will spend the rest of eternity.
- In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
- The Morning Daily newspaper's Mr. Inquisitive column - which has the tagline "I'm Much Obliged" - is holding a contest: tell Mr. Inquisitive what you would like to do, and those stories which are printed in the newspaper are eligible for a prize. Mr. Inquisitive gets many of these stories from random telephone calls he makes. Most of those people he happens to call are performing artists, who not only tell Mr. Inquisitive what they would like to do, but show him through their performances. The Auntie Pru's Recipe column, which is adjacent to Mr. Inquisitive's and which is written by Mr. Inquisitive's exasperated and sleepless male colleague, gets Mr. Inquisitive into a few scrapes along the way.
- In this short musical comedy, Adam and Eve go on an adventure through time that leads them from the Garden of Eden, to the Roman Empire, King Arthur's court, and a beach resort in modern-day Florida.
- Women are put in charge of the city government for a day, and the mayor must go to the train station to greet an opera singer.
- Ottilie Van Zandt, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy colonel, loves the gardener's son, Richard Wayne, but her family forces her to marry her cousin Claude. Richard leaves before the wedding, vowing to return wealthy and marry Ottilie, but since she is already married when he does return, he impulsively marries Alice Tremaine. Years later, to save lonely widow Ottilie from being evicted, Richard purchases her house at auction and gives it to her. Two generations later, Ottilie, the granddaughter of the first Ottilie, lives in the old house and teaches dancing. Richard Wayne, grandson of the first Richard, is a wealthy young man of the jazz set who thinks of Ottilie as a little old-fashioned but has affection for her. Their friendship culminates in a romance and marriage that began years before with their grandparents.
- Manicurists Sally, Irene, and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. After Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
- 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.
- A Southern songwriter brings his piano to New York and meets a girl who works on Tin Pan Alley
- The owner of an unsuccessful greeting-card store attempts to sell 'talking' greeting cards in the form of records.
- Julie and Bob take a break from their Mardi Gras revels to visit Bob's home, where he lives with his sister and their reclusive Uncle Andy. Andy mistakes Julie for his sweetheart of years before and she plays along. Seems he was a steamboat captain and when the railroads put him out of work he vowed to never leave his home again -- and he still lives in the 1870's in his mind. Julie, Bob and Queenie entice him out to a ball and he finds life in the 20th century pleasant enough.
- Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
- Ruth Etting is the star attraction on the Albertson Travel Agency radio show. When her producers learn that her recordings are on another program at the same time, they devise a contest, based on the words in a song she sings, in which the winner gets Etting's services at a banquet.
- Hal and June meet through her apartment window, she stuck inside since she can't leave because she fears being locked out if she does by the landlord due to back rent owed, and he a sign painter painting over the current advertisement directly across from her apartment window. June treats the current sign, which features a knight, as her only constant companion while she's stuck inside. Hal and June's connection is primarily through their mutual love of dance. Hal, falling for June on first sight, vows to help her, she who needs work, but who cannot look for work without leaving the apartment. Through their connection, they, including June's friend Earlyne, who is also helping her while she goes through her own issues of looking for work, can't help but sing and dance when given the opportunity.
- On a desktop with many books, familiar characters in literature (such as Captain Kidd, Huckleberry Finn, Robinson Crusoe, and Rip Van Winkle) come out of their books after dark. When the book "Minstrel Days" is placed on the desk, the people who emerge from this book put on an old fashioned minstrel show, with comedians, an orchestra, chorus, and dancing girls.
- Columnist Beatrice Blair dispenses love advice to her readers, but can't seem to find her own Mr. Right. Reporter Jimmy Jackson has pursued her but with no results. Blair takes her assistant, Helen, on a cruise to the French Riviera to find romance. The men they meet there make her realize what she left back home.
- This Vitaphone Melody Master starts off on the Louisiana levees, and then shifts to a California nightclub, where Claude Hopkins and His Orchestra are performing. Orlando Roberson sings a couple of songs, and Tip, Tap and Toe provide some minstrel hoofing. The latter is three men...Tip (one person),Tap (another person), and Toe (a third person), and are not a duo as shown on site made up of Tip Tap (one person) and Toe (another person.)
- Welsh millionaire is jealous of a young man for the affection of a pretty girl, but all ends well when he finds he is his own son by his first wife. From a novel by Margaret Kennedy.
- In this musical short, the leading lady is a French woman who finds mystery and romance on a luxury liner. There is much music with a chorus of beautiful girls dancing in lush art deco settings.
- When he is fired from his job, Red puts a hex on his boss. That evening, the boss goes to a nightclub and discovers that the hex worked.
- The story of a likable young man can't hold a job because he is always daydreaming usually about girlfriend Mitzi.