"As characters from other books cheer that performance, the protagonist of "The Good Earth", his head the shape of a globe, says prayers by his bedside.The camera pans the library to the right, revealing the book "The Invisible Man" and an invisible man dancing, who hands off to "Topper" (a novel from a series by Thorne Smith, as well as a contemporary film) where a similar character continues a similar dance, then moves to "The Thirty-Nine Steps" where a caricature of "Bojangles" Robinson dances down the steps, "So Big" with a caricature of Greta Garbo, and "The Green Pastures" which turns out to feature a big band presentation of "Swing for Sale" led by a caricature of Cab Calloway.