I’d recalled a couple of mid-1930s shorts or film appearances in which Rogers seemed to have some schtick in which he’d run around the bandstand and play a short piece on just about each one of the band’s various instruments. Which is why I sometimes wondered if he was more of a commercial figurehead (utilizing his fame) of the band, or really a full-fledged bandleader.
Nice to see that a good print of “Safety in Numbers” exists. The vast majority of Paramount features from 1930 seem luckily extant. Although often hard to come by. Not the case with the preceding year, 1929, in which a hefty number of Paramounts are considered ‘lost.’