The French General worries that his son Alexander Grey spends all his time sitting at the piano playing Otto Harbach tunes, so he sends him to French North Africa. North Africa is a sound stage in Brooklyn where he can sing the words by Oscar Hammerstein II in this cut-down version of the popular operetta, THE DESERT SONG.
All of which reminds me of the time Harbach's wife boasted that her husband had written "One Alone" from the operetta; whereupon Mrs. Hammerstein said "No, your husband wrote a bunch of notes. My husband wrote "One Alone."" Grey sings it in duet with Bernice Claire here, which strikes me as bizarre. Anyway, there's a skeleton of the story here, traveling Jewish tourists, saber dancers, and it's all over soon enough.
All of which reminds me of the time Harbach's wife boasted that her husband had written "One Alone" from the operetta; whereupon Mrs. Hammerstein said "No, your husband wrote a bunch of notes. My husband wrote "One Alone."" Grey sings it in duet with Bernice Claire here, which strikes me as bizarre. Anyway, there's a skeleton of the story here, traveling Jewish tourists, saber dancers, and it's all over soon enough.