What a great film! I agree that the final version is more concise, but this one was very interesting as well. Mack Sennett was a brilliant comedy filmmaker, one of the best of his time. Creating good popular comedy is much more difficult than heavy drama. Sennett had the ability to stay true to his silent movie style while intergarding sound and the possibilities of more advanced plots into his films. Bing's voice was indeed great!

What a lovely quotation, Michael - and so apt.
Thank you, David. 
This just now was the first of Bing's Sennett shorts I have seen in its entirety and I was so surprised and impressed at its picture and sound quality. Clearly some hard work has been undertaken to achieve this.
I found the content so charming and innocent. Bing appeared so young, here (which can only be expected for a man still in his 'twenties) and in superb voice. Very nice how the song excerpts were worked into the plot (over the telephone, Etc). 

I find it so beautifully coincidental that Mack Sennett was the producer who put both the western world's most influential comedy figure of the twentieth century (Charlie Chaplin) into the movies and then two decades later, the western world's most influential popular singer. I do hope by the time his life ended (just six years before both Charlie's and Bing's big screen years did), that he was satisfied with these two hefty contributions, alone. 

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Thank you, David. What delightful nonsense that movie is and how well Bing sang in 1932. Cheers from Graham