a real artifact of the early talkie and musical and which include the first two strip technicolor ( the last half of the movie ) . the romance between a new orleans cabaret singer ( bebe daniel ) and the scion of a plantation ( everett marshall ) be your basic boy meet girl and boy loses girl due to misunderstand her selfless action and boy get girl back story . all this intersperse with singing and dancing and vaudeville routine ( wheeler and woolsey ) and circus act and chorus girl and contortionist and evil machination of an oily villain and a near duel and and superb tap dancing ( bill robinson ) . the dialog and act be painfully weak and the storyline lurch roughly from scene to scene often with little sense or continuity . the 75 year old film be sharply date by several instance of slave in the background singin and workin happily for their beloved master and be call boy instead of by name . the impending civil war be totally ignore . still and i recommend dixiana a valuable view for it historical technicolor sequence as well a it illustration of the then prevail movie fiction of happy slave work for benign master in the sweet and gentle south .