Kitty wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 6:21 pm
donnie wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 3:03 pm
To explain the gag behind it...
I didn't know this, either!
That seemed kind of odd to me because I would have thought it would probably be the other way round, with the big popular acts having to perform more because they were more in demand, but not so.
Kitty wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 6:21 pm
The thing I was most interested in was the advertisers on the screen behind them. I wanted to know if they were real, but I could only verify the Societe Chocolates one, (and obviously the famous Bijou) which leads me to believe that they probably were all real.
Yes, I was eyeing those as well. I assumed they were all made up, but apparently not. If they actually used a back wall that cluttered in those days, seems like it would be detracted from the acts.
Kitty wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 6:21 pm
If you notice the open door that they show multiple times outside the stage, it says "Meadows Merry Minstrels" which is most likely (definitely!) a nod to another WB film, the Al Jolson vehicle
Mammy, which was also released in 1930. That is the name of the troupe in which Jolson is a part of in the film.
No, I'd not noticed that. Good observation!
Now...are you going to hear Mandy Lane, Mandy Lane... all night in your sleep?
Edit: I shouldn't have made that last comment because now I have it going in my head over and over and over and it
won't stop.