Watchable, but I'd recommend speeding up the live-action

I enjoyed the music, but ended up speeding up the slow songs to 1.5x and the school fight song to 1.25x speed. It made them WAY better, and made the old timey warble of Rudy Vallee tolerable. As a Betty Boop short, it contains the usual little gags that are just amazing to see, because of how tight the jokes could be. Plus, there's a brief appearance of one of the first probably-LBGTQ+ animated characters, a rarity both then and especially now.

This is probably best watched within a batch of other Betty Boop or classic cartoons, because it ranks near the absolute bottom of Boop's pantheon of shorts, but I still recommend it highly and I'd gladly watch it again.

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