song-a-and-dance

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Gillies, Lindsay wrote:


  As with many musical films of the late 30s 
> and early 40s, song settings pop up in the most peculiar places, 
> song-and-dance applied to almost any content whatever..
> 

Isn't there a place in one of the novels (probably GR) where, after
one of the song interludes, a voice is heard to say, "Now where
did that orchestra come from?"

					P.