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- Bob Hope is the Master-of-Ceremonies at New Yock City's Carlton Club, which is going belly-up because the wife, Allyn Gillyn, of the owner, Donald Brian, won't let him book any female singers or acts because he has a penchant for hitting on them, and this makes her somewhat jealous and protective.
- A grab-bag of singers and dancers featuring, at the time, New York-based performers such as Rae Sanuels, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, the four Mullen Sisters and the team of Evans & Mayer. Dancers Pops & Louie (Albert Whitman and Louis Williams), later to be seen in Republic's "Hit Parade of 1943", are also along.
- A Mentone Brevity short that features an early-day Henny Youngman (billed as Henry Youngman). Gogo DeLys (the correct version of her name), old-timer Lew Hearn and Powers' Prom Girls also take a turn. Youngman is the emcee at the Yacht Club nightclub who is also trying to get Lew Hearn to buy a television set...on which unbooked vaudeville acts are performing.
- Yvonne Manoff) hosts an informal house party with Ernie Stanton)acting as the emcee. Ken Browne) shows up with his Society Pets and insists on acting as the emcee with Stanton. Jacqueline Allen) sings a Russian song and Paul Howard does an eccentric dance; Nayan Pearce)and Don Carthy) perform a ballroom dance. The Pope Sisters) sing one of their "hot' numbers and Will Cater follows with a cowboy song. Ken Browne's Society Pets close the short with a comedy routine and almost wreck the drawing-room with their goody musical-and-harmony act.
- Jack Good is a booking agent trying to sell his clients to Charles Kemper, who is suffering from the inability to concentrate on the business at hand. The performing acts include a very-young Eileen Barton, plus: The Big Apple Dancers, the Paul Florenz Girls, dancers Richards and Adrienne, the Fashionaires, Flash and Dash, and the Royal Duo.
- This Mentone Brevity from Milton Schwarzwald that was distributed only by Universal Pictures and not by the non-existant-in-1937 MCA/Universal and was released on April 14, 1937, featured, in addition to Val Irving, The Maple Leaf Trio, The Five Flats and The Whirling Walkers.
- Setting is an NYC beauty shop where the owner, employees and customers do their specialties. The acts include Imogene Coca, the wise-cracking shop-owner and Bucvk & Bubble doing their singing, dancing and comedy. Other include radio's singing aggregation Mae McKim and Her Three Boy Friends' Doris Dupont, Broadway tap-dancer; actress Hildergarde Halliday doing character bits' and singer Marty May and the Harrison & Fisher dance team.
- This Mentone Brevity short from Milton Schwartzwald that was released by Universal Pictures on March 17,1937 and distributed only by Universal Pictures and not MCA/Universal, featured, in addition to radio and burley comic Harry Rose III, (who is the same as Harry Rose IV and should be numbered Harry Rose One since he was around before all those other Harry Roses') and Roy Smeck, the Dixieland Jazz Band and Campbell's Royalists.
- The premise is that if movie theatres, to attract customers, go in for prize-winning 'Bank-Nights," than banks should have entertainment days. Gus , acting as the emcee and singing a couple of songs, is the president of a bank that does just that, and exposes his depositors to pop singer Bernice Parks; dancer Ruth Daye; Minor & Root, skilled dancers and The Five Ames Sisters who are acrobatic dancers; the Barton Parks Quartete do some warbling, and the grand finale fins The Three Wiles doing a routine based on "The Dance of the Wooden Soldiers."
- A Mentone Brevity musical-and-comedy short using vaudeville-and-radio performers in a swanky nightclub setting; performers include Oshins & Lessy, a comedy team; singers Virginia Verrill and the Four Eton Boys' dancers---all kinds---done by the Samuel Brothers, Edith Fleming, and Don and Dolores Forsome; a young concert pianist named Rose Linda (no, not Linda Rose) a some multi-trumpet playing by Vic Hyde.
- The fictional plot, which means, no matter what name they use, nobody is playing 'Self', finds the 'Tic-Toc Girls' as the telephone switchboard operators at a fictional hotel, which has a lot of guests using their own names. As the fictional calls come in and are answered by the girls, they connect them to the fictional rooms of the various artists, and the various artists do their bits. Featured are Murray Lane and His Harmoniacs.
- Russ Brown auditions several 'swing' dancers for Varsha Backoff only to find out later that he is a school swing salesman.