Jack Haley wants to marry Helen Lynd, but her father, John Hamilton, insists she marry a baseball player. So Haley, who is blind as a bat, must win a baseball game in this Vitaphone short.
Haley was a capable song-and-dance man, but his persona in this period was the low-energy, mild-mannered milquetoast and would remain that way throughout the 1930s. It must have amused some people, and paired with a blow-hard comic like Jack Oakie, as he frequently would be, it makes a potentially interesting contrast. However, even the emphatic assertions of John Hamilton (whom I remember fondly as Perry White to George Reeves' Superman) never offer anything more than a potted skit.
Haley was a capable song-and-dance man, but his persona in this period was the low-energy, mild-mannered milquetoast and would remain that way throughout the 1930s. It must have amused some people, and paired with a blow-hard comic like Jack Oakie, as he frequently would be, it makes a potentially interesting contrast. However, even the emphatic assertions of John Hamilton (whom I remember fondly as Perry White to George Reeves' Superman) never offer anything more than a potted skit.