Arzner films it with fascination and enthusiasm, and the choreography is marked by the point of view of the spectators and the dancers' awareness that they're being watched.

The themes are female friendship and a woman's fulfillment, and it is one of Arzner's most coherent and accomplished films.

Arzner's internal critique of Hollywood ideology (woman as silent object of male scrutiny). It works within the confines of a stock vaudevillian golddiggers comedy-drama.

With this release and its wonderful supplemental interviews, an opportunity is created to shed some light on a forgotten director and her work.