The country mice are courting but the city cat will have his way with her, even if he must call in his gangsters with their tommy guns.
Paul Terry had upgraded production. There was more elaborate background work. Philip Scheib's music had been integrated into the frame with occasional bursts of opera amidst the score. Even dialogue was being used as the staff finally moved out of the synchronized era.
And there they would rest for a few years. Oh, one might interpret it as exploring the bounds and techniques of their new idiom, but Paul Terry's studio was never venturesome. They changed only when they had to. The crisis of sound finally being past, Terry was content to have his people do the same thing they had been doing before, under budget and on schedule. It would not be until the next crisis, when Technicolor became available, that there would be further changes in the product.