Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra

Earl Burtnett and his sixteen-piece orchestra play three popular songs, including "What'll I Do?" and a very well-mannered version of "Tiger Rag" in this Vitaphone musical short.

Burtnett must have been the bee's knees in 1928, because he made four of these shorts released that year. He had appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1920, and would continue to ply until his death in 1936 just shy of his fortieth birthday. His movie is jazz-influenced, but far too polite to e considered any sort of jazz.