Danny O’Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row….

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette (“pronounced bis-on-ay”) decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family’s objections and the…