Hal Le Roy dances and Toby Wing smiles. That's all you needed in 1936 to make a good musical short subject. Well, that, about fifteen dancers, Roy Mack and the facilities of Warner's Vitagraph Studio in Brooklyn.
Hal was an eccentric dancer who stole the show of the 1931 Ziegeld Follies, and wound up with career, encompassing stage and movies. Miss Wing was a favorite Busby Berkley chorine from those spectacular production numbers; it was she who Dick Powell sang "I'm Young and Healthy" to in 42ND STREET, and she did well enough to get up to the lead of a second feature or twoo before she decided to get married.
There's a song sung by someone else, and a stilt dancer, but that's about it. When people want to be entertained, you just have to make sure you don't muck it up.
Hal was an eccentric dancer who stole the show of the 1931 Ziegeld Follies, and wound up with career, encompassing stage and movies. Miss Wing was a favorite Busby Berkley chorine from those spectacular production numbers; it was she who Dick Powell sang "I'm Young and Healthy" to in 42ND STREET, and she did well enough to get up to the lead of a second feature or twoo before she decided to get married.
There's a song sung by someone else, and a stilt dancer, but that's about it. When people want to be entertained, you just have to make sure you don't muck it up.