NEW WIHNIE LIGHTNER TALKIE

Evening Star, Issue 21093, 4 May 1932, Page 11

NEW WIHNIE LIGHTNER TALKIE

* GOLD DUST GERTIE' FOR OCTAGON Winnie Lightner, who won instant fame by her portrayal of the highhanded Mabel in ‘ Gold Diggers of Bi’oadway,’ comes to town in her dizziest comedy, 1 Warner Bros.’ ‘ Gold Dust Bertie,’ on Friday next, when the film will start at the Octagon Theatre. ‘ Gold Dust Gertie ’ may bo said to ho a rather descriptive title, as hardhitting Winnie succeeds in extracting gold dust, or its equivalent,, from everybody in sight—and is either married or has been married to everybody of the masculine persuasion ill the picture, from the two newly-weds, played with their usual slapstick insanity, by Olson and Johnson—screonland’s oddest clowns—to the aged and erstwhile painfully modest maker of bathing suits. Winnie blows into the ofhee of the said bathing-suit manufacturer with a claim for unpaid alimony which affects tho two newly-weds, whoso pugilistic wives—-twin sisters, by tho way—appear at the wrong time for tho frightened hubbies, and beat them into a figurative pulp. ’The boys wish to “ put oyer ” a very modern bathing suit to win the prize in a Florida bathing beauty contest, thus to put the business on a better footing. It is Winnio who wheedles over the bald and amorous boss, and makes him consent to taking a yacht trip to Miami. Things too ludicrous for description take place on the trip—the newly-weds, formerly Winnie’s husbands, are forced to take to tho high seas—the captain proves to be an exhusband also—tho boss proposes marriage—and to cap the climax tho irate wives reach Florida almost before the boat. That Winnie wins finally may be imagined—but how she wins only a trip to the theatre can tell. ‘ Gold Dust Gertie’ is the fastest and funniest of Winnie’s pictures, which is saying a lot.

‘Gold Dust Bertie’ is an adaptation of the play ‘ The Wife of the Party,’ by Len. *D. Hollister. The cast includes Dorothy Christy, Claude Gillingwator, Arthur Hoyt, George Byron, Vivian Oakland, Cnarley Grapewin, Cliarles Jiidels, and Virginia Sale. Lloyd Bacon directed. On the same bill is featured ‘Borrowed Partners,’ an hilarious story of tho bewildering predicament of a young man who borrowed a wife who 'wouldn’t stay borrowed.