I picked up an original 16mm print of "Major Bowes' Amateurs:
Musical Varieties", a short distributed by Commonwealth Pictures, New York. I
need to know if this is the same as "Major Bowes' Amateur Theater of the Air"
(1935) directed by John H. Auer, in which a very young Frank Sinatra sings
a song. Does anyone happen to know if he sang "On the Sidewalks of New York"
dressed as a newsboy?
Other sequences in my print include a gentleman doing animal
imitations, and a minstrel show.
Thanks!
John Potwora
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