Don't expect Eddie Cantor to appear to sing his famous standard. But Constance Moore does get to sing it in this delightful comedy with music and does a fine job. It's a typical shell of a plot surrounding publicity man Tom Brown who is fired for his hysterical insult of a customer (aka "Pelican face") and later rehired when he reaches out to the common American Girl and ends up playing matchmaker for the store's big hearted by cantankerous owner (Richard Carle) and his longtime secretary / love (Elisabeth Risdon). As part of the publicity stunt, more ends up engaged to another man (Larry Williams) even though it's obviously Brown she loves.
While there is more plot than usual for this formula Universal B musical comedy, It is the energy of a flying cast and some delightful specialties that makes it above-average. Jerome Cowan and Fritz Feld provide comedy as the stuffy Master of ceremonies and floor walker respectively, with filled getting the Franklin Pangborn treatment and basically being pushed and thrown around and living to tell about it. One of the funniest sequences involves the typical department store stampede upon the door opening which nearly sees Feld reduce to the flatness of a pancake.
It's also nice to see a mature love story with the wisecracking Risdon, her usual no-nonsense self, of course hiding a big heart, paired with the much older Carle who gets to do a very amusing specialty. There's also a violent but funny acrobatic segment where the male dancer gets kicked in the face by his female partner and gets a few good slaps in on her as well. Dated to be sure, but at just an hour, there's plenty of entertainment and you won't feel that you have wasted that 60 minutes.
While there is more plot than usual for this formula Universal B musical comedy, It is the energy of a flying cast and some delightful specialties that makes it above-average. Jerome Cowan and Fritz Feld provide comedy as the stuffy Master of ceremonies and floor walker respectively, with filled getting the Franklin Pangborn treatment and basically being pushed and thrown around and living to tell about it. One of the funniest sequences involves the typical department store stampede upon the door opening which nearly sees Feld reduce to the flatness of a pancake.
It's also nice to see a mature love story with the wisecracking Risdon, her usual no-nonsense self, of course hiding a big heart, paired with the much older Carle who gets to do a very amusing specialty. There's also a violent but funny acrobatic segment where the male dancer gets kicked in the face by his female partner and gets a few good slaps in on her as well. Dated to be sure, but at just an hour, there's plenty of entertainment and you won't feel that you have wasted that 60 minutes.
