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- Gloria Jean sings two songs in the Universal musical short, which also features The Sportsman Quartette, the Milt Heath Trio, the singing trio of Lee, Lynn and Lou, and the Schuplatter Dancers.
- Patty Nelson, using the name of Parry Hart, auditions for and gets the job as a band-singer with Al Tyler's orchestra. Al, of course, falls in love with her and she with him. Back in Los Angeles, her father is a disc jockey and objects to her career choice. At a party, Al announces he is leaving the band and going to Hollywood to replace a disc jockey named Russ Nelson, who is too old and out-of-touch. Not knowing the man is Patty's father, Al does not know why she ran away. She flies to Hollywood to help her father. Al shows up, and after a couple more plot developments, all three team up on the air.
- A compilation that features film clips mostly from Educational Film Company comedies of the 1930s
- Soda jerk Bert, a true-crime buff, doesn't recognize the notorious crook Memphis Mike. Mike and his henchman hold him captive and Bert escapes, but his bossy mother-in-law claims credit for the crooks' ultimate capture.
- Pals Herman and Pat, with diamond rings in hand, are all set to make marriage proposals. Pat is bashful, however, so Herman broaches the subject to Pat's girl. The girl's parents think Herman is the suitor, and invite him to dinner. Meanwhile, Herman's own prospective in-laws are hosting a dinner, too, so Herman and Pat dash from one dining room to the other, trying to straighten things out.
- Through a series of misunderstandings, Bert becomes innocently involved with his boss' wife.
- Released to theaters in 1974, this collection of vintage Columbia short subjects included: "Yes, We Have No Bonanza" with The Three Stooges; "Violent Is the Word for Curly" with The Three Stooges; "You Nazty Spy!" with The Three Stooges (replaced by "Men in Black" for the nontheatrical reissue); "Nothing But Pleasure" with Buster Keaton; "Strife of the Party" with Vera Vague; Chapter 1 of the 1943 "Batman" serial with Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft; and "America Sings with Kate Smith."
- Pat wants to marry Nancy, but her mother refuses. Pat gets Herman to pose as Nancy's new suitor, expecting that he will be refused in favor of Pat. But mother tricks them by welcoming Herman into the family, and Pat has to do some quick thinking to get Herman off the hook.
- The misadventures of Musty Suffer, good-natured family man. He lives with his wife Sally, mother-in-law, twin daughters Betsy and Netsy, and dog Spartacus. Musty and his neighbor Blobbsy want to give the kids a birthday party, but when the tax collector takes all their handy money, Musty, Sally, and Blobbsy stage their own show to entertain the neighborhood kids.
- The Ritz Brothers cause chaos in a bankrupt hotel.
- Herman and Pat attend a dance at a co-ed school, with Pat dressing as a girl to become Herman's partner in an effort to avoid two homely girls forced upon them by the dean of women. Herman had been counting on his girl to save him but she hasn't arrived. When she does arrive, Herman is in trouble trying to explain his "date," Pat as a girl.
- Newlywed Pat gets a raise from his boss. Herman, seeing how simple it is, tells his boss of his own marriage plans. All goes well until both bosses drop in on both young men to "meet the bride." Pat's bride finds herself playing both wives.
- Andy and Ma Clyde run a hotel, where Andy has problems in the kitchen. Two delinquent tenants are actors, who convince Andy to invest in their repertory company. When the sheriff arrests the troupe just before showtime, Andy and Ma are forced to put the show on themselves.
- Charley, representing a manufacturer of musical instruments, is sent to investigate why certain mail orders have not been settled. Charley, carrying multiple bulky instruments, boards a train and gives the conductor, the porter, and the passengers a terrible night as he tries to settle into his upper berth. Arriving at his rural destination of Beaver Dam, Charley masquerades as a hillbilly to track down the missing instruments. At the barn dance, he sings "Handsome Jim."
- Ray Whitley inherits the Lazy W Ranch, but the local attorney informs him that the will has one condition: Whitley must not sing or play or even whistle a single note of music for 30 days. Otherwise the property goes to the ranch foreman, Jim Readick. Whitley and his Six Bar Cowboys spend the rest of the film trying to get around the "no music" rule with several vocal and instrumental numbers. Meanwhile, Readick schemes to trap them into violating the terms of the will.
- The members of the Lonely Hearts Club aren't mixing, so Harriet Hutchins takes decisive action. She gets the female membership to put on a floor show, which breaks the ice and makes the club a success. The reel features three dance routines, and a song by Harriet, "I Hate This Thing Called Swing."
- TOBO THE HAPPY CLOWN is a kiddie-matinée compilation feature with a circus theme. Producer Ed Finney (billed as "Eddie Finn") plays Tobo, and supplies the voice of the miniature puppet "Tobo, Jr." The film's various episodes involve Tobo playing fireman, inventing a time machine, and photographing wild animals. Finney also includes random silent footage of comedies and dramas with a circus background. Comedian El Brendel narrates an episode taken from WILD OYSTERS, a Charley Bowers stop-motion comedy of 1940. Gloria Jean and Nina Varela are seen in stock footage from Finney's 1959 production LAFFING TIME; neither actress appears in the new TOBO footage.
- Two-reel musical-comedy update of Michael Balfe's operetta "The Bohemian Girl." A gypsy camp is filled with singers, dancers, and pickpockets. The gypsy queen, jealous of the budding romance of gypsies Arline and Thaddeus, gives Arline a stolen medallion. She is accused of theft and taken to the Hall of Justice, where she is discovered to be a nobleman's long-lost daughter. The gypsy queen sings "There's your happy ending," leading the chorus in song.
- Dance instructors Herman and Pat visit Hugo Sinclair, a devout believer in spiritualism. Pat wants to speak with Sinclair about his daughter Ruth, but SInclair is intent on an upcoming seance conducted by two distinguished guests. Pat and Herman, hiding, are terrorized during the seance, but once they discover the guests are frauds, they do a little terrorizing themselves.
- Students Pat and Herman are friendly rivals for dancer Grace McDonald. Timberg's father is the unwitting backer for their college show, and when the dean starts looking for them, Rooney and Timberg impersonate each other to keep from being caught.
- In this plotless two-reel musical, the musical Pickard Family holds an informal hootenanny at the general store. Village postmaster Pinky Tomlin enters and joins in the entertainment. Specialties by singer-songwriter Tomlin, singer Martha Tilton, comedian Britt Wood, dancer Lorraine Krueger, and the Pickards.
- Undergraduates Herman and Pat are pressured by the senior class to do some serious fundraising. Their medicine-show act is a success and the boys look forward to courting the dean's daughters. Chemist Herman prepares a home remedy for the dean, but it turns out to be dangerous. Herman and Pat frantically try to keep the dean from sampling the medicine.