NEW OPERA HOUSE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19910, 23 April 1930, Page 4

NEW OPERA HOUSE.

A revelation of the ways and wilea of the stage gufla of Broadway, "The Gold Diggers of Broadway," at Fuller*# New Opera House, iB playing; to large audiences each night. ■lt inimitable in tho glimpse® it alloy's of mako-up rooms and rehearsals, arid its patties ato bo realistic that one is • easily, in imagination, transformed into a guest and translated to the gay scene. Into such a life, the film reveals, wero precipitated at the shortest notioe and at first all unwillingly a dignified, if somewhat portly, solicitor, hitherto sheltered by a sup--1 posed "sweetie"-proof sophistication and his client, the millionaire guardian of his nephew, an immaculate young man very much in love with one of the girls in the chorus, who is a eharminK little show girl—untouched by the *femptatiOtaa of its life. She was the protegee of, a girl who was understudying for !-~«tarM|i> and the problem was to convince SfilHooalro that his heir would not be courting blue ruin by such a marriage as he contemplated r; Warner Brothers, who produced this film, have considerately estimated in percentages the Importance of ths various parts, and Winnie Lightner, who has that of Mable, heads the list. She is the fun producer, the laughmaker of the film, and she succeeds a ■ full 100 per cent. The expression on the face of thip well-experienced gold digger, he; smart sayings, and her art when at work on a victim compel laughter. Then Conway Tearle as the millionaire. Nancy Welford as Jerry, "who Is understudying to become a star, and Ana as Mabel, leading girl in the occupy the places next in importance: with Nick Lucas, who entertains delightfully in several of the lateßt song numbers. including "Painting the Clouds With Sunshine" and "Tiptoe Through the Tulips."