Trocadero

It's a wartime revue musical, with just enough story to keep it glued together. Apparently the Hollywood night club started out as a restaurant during Prohibition (read: speakeasy). With the coming of Repeal, the owner dies and his adopted children, Rosemary Lane and Johnny Downs take over. Thanks to Sheldon Leonard, who like everyone is sweet on Miss Lane, it converts to an up-to-date joint in 1935, and success follows success.... in business. The kids' love lives are a little less successful.

There are a bunch of fine band pieces, but for me the highlights are Wingy Manone and orchestra doing "The Music Goes Round and Round" and Ida James' version of "Shoo Shoo Baby" with Bob Chester's orchestra. The other musicians of the era include Gus Arnheim and Eddie LeBaron, while the acting cohort has Ralph Morgan, Cliff Nazarro, Dewey Robinson and an appearance by Dave Fleischer.

It's a cheap Republic motion picture directed by William Nigh, but it certainly gets the job done.