That’s my Great Uncle Jack White ! Reminds me of my dad, an awesome singer, actor in barbershop singing! Love this !

These guys were really good.

I saw this Vitaphone short in 2006 at the UCLA Film &Television Preservation Festival. Great stuff! 😁

My goodness, that's Georgie Stoll on violin. He made a Vitaphone short with his own band the year before.

excellent stuff!

There is a motorcycle from 1930 in my "stable". Seeing (and hearing!) this i understand it much better!! Great!

For many of Jack's jokes we are lacking context, being not of the Twenties. Even though, all the rest stands as a very good and entertaining valuable view, of our fun-loving Twenties forbears. I'd like to see more Jack and his Montrealer dandies. Thanks, michaelkearney!

Ben Blue on drums and in the ridiculous beard.

The medley beginning at 4:17 is made up of popular songs of the time. The first, "Hello Montreal," is based on the recordings of Tom Stacks with Harry Reser's Jazz Pilots (the "Yam-o, yam-o" is the giveaway), and of Ted Lewis (talking the lyrics, including the monologue at 6:14, "All the world's a masquerade party ...", before he goes off one his own, "now take the rich man" ... getting more and more Marxist - Groucho faction - as it goes on). Hamming it up at the heart-rending semi-cadence "Don't frown" (6:04) he then ad libs something about "Sonny boy a little later," (6:06) meaning "Sonny Boy," as in the famous rendition by Al Jolson, one of the greatest tear-jerkers of all time. At 7:30 "And then the war broke out!" is a version of the bit he did in King of Jazz, filmed about the same time as this, which concludes with: "And through the war's great curse stands the Red Cross nurse" - from the song "The Rose of No Man's Land."