Vintage Comedy & Music Classics, Volume 2: Howdy Broadway (1929) / A N (MOD) (DVD Movie) Break Point As president of Huxley College

As president of Huxley College

faces down four of the most notorious disfigured maniacs from his famous Rogues' Gallery

The bald comic actor - who had earlier worked for producer Hal Roach in rib-tickling shorts starring Laurel & Hardy

leading to a courtroom trial and a Judge's order that Danny be put to sleep

Andy meets a pretty land agent's daughter

Vintage Comedy & Music Classics, Volume 2: Howdy Broadway (1929) / A N (MOD) (DVD Movie) Break Point As president of Huxley CollegeDuring the first couple years of the talking picture era, Hollywood's small independent studios shied away from musicals. To begin with, they were expensive to stage and shoot, and the early crude sound equipment available to indie producers didn't do vocalists any favors. What's more, Poverty Row filmmakers couldn't afford the top musical talents. Nonetheless, Rayart Pictures, forerunner of Monogram, bucked the odds with Howdy Broadway, a modest