Broadway producer William Powell has a non-business interest in Fay Wray. She, however, loves Phillips Holmes. The two of them get married, but there are consistent frustrations; he's been classically trained in Paris, and can't find much in the way of demand for his sort of music. Meanwhile, their friends, Skeets Gallagher and Helen Kane are trying to crash the Great White Way with a refined version of their two-act.

As usual, it's Powell who dominates this movie in every scene he's in, with his melancholy, gentlemanly performance. He's particularly wry in conversation with his stage manager, Eugene Pallette. It's certainly not a particularly novel movie; Miss Kane has two numbers and a reprise, and the Technicolor sequence was missing from the copy I looked at. See if you can spot Virginia Bruce in the chorus. I couldn't.

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