HILARIOUS COMEDY FOR OCTAGON
WINNIE LIGHTNER IN ‘ GOLD DUST GERTIE '
* Gold Dust Gertie,’ which stars Winnie Lightner and Olsen and Johnston, opens on Friday at the Octagon. It is one of the most riotous of comedies, teaming as it does, one of the screen’s outstanding comediennes and the most famous pair of stage clowns in America.
Winnie turns vamp in her own behalf in ‘ Gold Dust Gertie,’ a role in a way like her uproarious one in ‘ Gold Diggers of Broadway.’ The story involves a beauty contest and a hilarious ocean voyage on a private yacht, with three of Winnie’s ex-hus-bands and a prospective one contributing to the complications. The cast includes Claude > Gillingwatcr, Charles Judels, Charley Grapewin, Virginia Sale, Dorothy Christy, Vivian Oakland, and Arthur Hoyt. Since Winnie Lightner made ‘ Gold Diggers of Broadway ’ she has been a popular comedienne of the screen, and her many fans will not bo disappointed in this latest comedy. With Olsen and Johnson, she provides most of the merriment, but the others help along with very clever characterisations. The Octagon will also show ‘ Borrowed Partners,’ described as a farcemelodrama. The farce means laughs, and the melodrama means thrills, and it takes romance to make it go. Bex Lease and Vera Reynolds are starred.
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Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 5
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210HILARIOUS COMEDY FOR OCTAGON Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 5
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