Fowler Studio Varieties (1930)
HERMAN FOWLER
Presents
FOWLER STUDIO VARIETIES
Recorded by RCA Photophone
Copyright MCMXXX (1930)
By arrangement with
(This studio credit was
blacked out when this short was reissued for early television.)
Presenting
Ray West
and his
Columbia
Recording ORCHESTRA
The film opens with a man staring into a fireplace.
Ray West and His Orchestra are playing "Beside an Opern Fireplace" (1929) by Paul Denniker and Will Osborne.
Ray West and His Orchestra
Ray West and His Orchestra with spotlight on clarinet players
Ray West and His Orchestra with spotlight on clarinet players
Ray West and His Orchestra vocalists
The man sees his girl's face in his fireplace.
Collegiate Four
sing
"I'LL BE WITH YOU"
The Collegiate Four consists of Ivan Fullerton, Russell Hays, Dave Harms, and Elaine Williams, but not necessarily in that order in this frame.
The Collegiate Four
Mlle. Fumi
and
Her Dancing Beauties
The "Dancing" Beauties
Mademoiselle Fumi. The music in the first part of this segment is "A Japanese Sunset" (1916) by Jessie L. Deppen.
Mademoiselle Fumi
Mademoiselle Fumi
Mademoiselle Fumi
Fowler Studio VARIETIES
The Voice of Vaudeville
THE END
Fowler Studio VARIETIES
The Voice of Vaudeville
This one-reel musical/variety short was released in 1930. In the 1950s, it was distributed by MPO Television Films, Inc. to TV stations to use as "filler" between programs. This print is a 35mm nitrate print, but it was probably used as a master print to produce 16mm distribution prints.
MPO Television Films, Inc.
New York City
Edge marking on the film showing that it is nitrate film and not safety film. The two squares means that this film stock was manufactured in 1940.
with Ray West and His Columbia Recording Orchestra and Mademoiselle Fumi. Directed by Alvin Neitz. Fowler Studios/Unknown distributor.
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Fowler Studios),
identified by
Bruce Calvert, is free of known copyright
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