i can not argue with other comment that the story line focus more on the romance between the mary martin and allan jones character and much in the manner of showboat and than on the life of victor herbert . but in the 1930 and would that have be a box office draw . instead of the life of vh and perhaps it should have be the music of vh . there be an abundance of this . for me and the thrill of the movie come near the end of the movie when susanna foster sings land of romance . it have be over a decade since i catch this movie for a second time at a local old movie theater . at first the audience be stun while then it burst into spontaneous applause . i remember the shiver run up and down my spine . my trivia memory recall the information provide to an inquire public by a local journalist when the movie first come out back in the late 1930 . that note hit by miss foster be a far f above high c. she may not have have four octave a la yma sumac but the then teen ager certainly have a range .