nellie hill be a popular nightclub performer who appear in this film and killer diller ( 1948 ) it be not hard to see why she only make two film and she be an extremely bad actress . editor ( bob howard ) need a reporter to gather information on a nightclub singer and lola ( nellie hill ) and who be mix up with some pretty shady type and include mike ( bill dillard ) an escaped convict . lola have one of those new fangled tv set pretty amaze for a grade d film of 1941. she and mike view a musical number geeshee and set in the jungle and feature a witch doctor and lot of dance girl . it have a very confusing story a it be mostly tell in flashback by the editor to an eager young reporter who desperately want a job . bill smith ( ken kenard ) be once a policeman but be now a nightclub owner . he be trail to his house by a reporter and who hide behind a chair . smith and his date drunkenly exit via a window and the next minute lola and mike go to bill with a policeman claim it be their flat and they have be burgle . before too long the policeman be play the piano and lola be sing song from her new show it ain not right . if that be true why and in the next scene and be she audition for a spot in bill club . just when you be wonder be there go to be a murder . there be and then . the thing that make this watchable be the musical number . the wonderful noble sissle ( who have more charisma and talent in his little finger than all the actor in this film put together . ) and his band perform at a masquerade party in which only 2 people wear mask . they perform some very catchy song too late baby and hello happiness and and run around . a pity sissle wasn not give the lead and he would have be the best actor in the film . there be also some pretty good variety act and include another band skippy williams band and who be great . marjorie oliver be also memorable a bill sassy secretary . these film may have be crudely make but at least they be a realistic interpretation of the afro american way of life at a time when white america be still laugh at stepin fechit . recommend only for noble sissle .