Say It with Songs
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
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Al Jolson
Joe Lane
Davey Lee
Little Pal
Marian Nixon
Katherine Lane
Holmes Herbert
Dr. Robert Merrill
Kenneth Thomson
Arthur Phillips
Fred Kohler
Fred, Joe's Cellmate
Frank Campeau
Officer
John Bowers
Dr. Burnes, surgeon
Ernest Hilliard
Radio Station Employee
Arthur Hoyt
Mr. Jones
Claude Payton
Judge
Jay Berger
Schoolboy
Flora Finch
Radio station beauty expert
Mickey Martin
Schoolboy
Irvine Penvose
Schoolboy
Buddy Smith
Schoolboy
Jack Stoutenburg
Schoolboy
Billy O'Brien
Schoolboy
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