clever and gritty and witty and fast paced and sexy and extravagant and sleazy and erotic and heartfelt and corny and footlight parade be a first class entertainment and what the movie be all about . the realistic and satirical treatment give a fresh edge to the material and it pace and line delivery be breathtaking . to think that they only start make feature talk picture 7 year before this . the brilliance of the dialogue can not be match anywhere today and especially consider that realism have take over and engulfed contemporary cinema . this film be make at a time when the hayes code restrict content be be ignore and the result be a fresh and self referential and critical and live cinema that speak directly to contemporary audience suffer through the depression and the general angst of the age . i would recommend watch any film from this period and that be 1930 1935 and for a vision of what popular cinema can potentially be .