Your 1930s Opera Reference For the Day

Frank Tashlin’s You’re An Education (1938) seems to have been made solely to see how many cultural and musical puns can be shoved into one cartoon.

Perhaps the most obscure one today is the one involving a man singing in front of a travel poster for Tibet.



It is opera star Lawrence Tibbett. Yes, the accent’s on a different syllable, but a pun is a pun.



There’s been some kind of edit before this scene takes place. You can hear part of a note on the soundtrack as the picture fades out and then the first note of whoever is doing the Tibbett singing is faded up.