Rita Rio and Her Orchestra

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"This is one of the later Vitaphone shorts--known as a "Melody Master". These later musical shorts generally were more straight forward and had simpler sets and no real story to tie it all together--just a famous band of the day doing their stuff. This in an unusual short in that it features a female band leader and her all female band. It begins with Rita herself dancing to the song "When You Are Smiling" in her apartment as her mother yells at her. Finally, the frustrated mother calls the doctor as Rita won't stop dancing. However, her boyfriend steps in--announcing ..."