The camera pulls back to reveal it’s Leopold Stokowski. He was known for conducting with his hands, not a baton.
He now conducts...a pot?
A flower pops up which he pulls off the stem, sticks it in his lapel and walks out of the scene.
It’s another celebrity caricature cartoon with all your late ‘30s favourites—Groucho, Gable, Hugh Herbert, Sparks, Fields vs McCarthy, Garbo, Joe E. Brown vs Martha Raye, Ben Bernie, Bing, Benny (Jack and Goodman) with Walter Winchell announcing at the beginning, thanks to Danny Webb’s voice.
Frank Tipper and Merle Gilson are the animators.
They had a thing for razing Leopold at Warner Brothers. " Long Haired Hare ": " Ah!!! Leopold....LEOPOLD!!", also " Hollywood Steps Out ", and this one. Of course, they also loved doing the same to Benny . Good stuff.
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