The premise: a disparate group of expats gather at a luxury hotel in Wu-Hu China where Doctor Wong will be demonstrating his magical radioscope device with the hopes of selling it to the highest bidder! This is a good excuse as any to bring kooky radio and vaudeville acts together; ones as different as Burns and Allen and Baby Rose Marie do their bits; they either make up the storyline or are summoned on the spooky radioscope (which seems to be a proto-television, but also allows the people onscreen to interact with their audience!). Gotta love WC Fields, who insists on the top hat with the PJs. In the shabby hotel opposite, an enraged Bela Lugosi is trying to get a clear shot at Fields for shacking up with his lovely but not-quite-divorced wife. Silly and charming!
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