Gold Dust Gertie (Warner Bros.) (1931)

PAPERS WANT. PLANT IT EARLY! Three “Gold Dust Gertie” Leads Are Scandinavian London Crystal-Gazer Rouses Anger Of Winnie Lightner In Spite Of The Fortune She Spends On The Gypsies Hilarious Star of ‘tGold Dust Gertie,’”” Now Playing At ae Theatre, Confesses Her Faith In Fortune-Telling—With Exceptions (Interesting Personal Interview) Winnie Lightner is the champion fortune-telling fan in Hollywood. The tomboy of the movies, whose hilarious antics are known wherever movies are shown, goes to more gypsy palmreaders in a year than anyone in the movie capital. SHE CLEANS UP IN LAUGHS! Winnie, who is now at the ‘Theatre: on sous in Warner Bros. “Gold Dust Gertie,” started her fortune telling career at a tender age. Years ago as a tow-headed little girl, she pushed a shining new quarter into the grimy hand of a gypsy woman and said: “Please, Mrs. Gypsy, tell me my fortune.” : And the gypsy woman did. She took the hand of the excited child and looked at it long and solemnly. The city ordinances in Buffalo, New York, against fortune telling were not strictly enforced, even in those days, and the gypsy waited until an interested group of people, old and young had gathered about before she began. FIRST FORTUNE “Gypsy woman see far into future for you,” she said. “Gypsy woman see money, yes, and gypsy woman see fame, yes, but gypsy woman see only leetle happiness and only leetle love. Have you more money?” “No.” “That too sad,” wailed the old crone, “‘there is so much more here to tell, if you had more money.” Others crowded in then and the disappointed little girl went home studying the palm of the hand that had been so interesting to the gypsy. PREDICT MUCH MONEY Since that day Winnie Lightner has spent a fortune trying to find the other secrets which the old gypsy claimed she saw in her hand that day in Buffalo, nearly twenty years “ago. She is still searching and still spending. She has had her fortune told almost a thousand times and the cost for each telling has mounted steadily from the first investment of twenty-five cents, but she has never been told any vital secret beyond the three major predictions of the gypsy, fame and fortune but no happiness or love. The mystic savants of England, France and America have studied the palms of Winnie Lightner, have examined her hand-writing, have turned the cards of fate for her, have gazed in crystals and queried the unseen spirits of a medium’s trance. She has been warned and forewarned against this and that and the other thing and advised to do thus and so, but the fortune telling world seems to be in league against her in predicting domestic tranquility—which you remember is guaranteed by our constitution for her. 1931 LUCKY YEAR Only one other general prediction has come from all these attempts to peer into the future on Winnie Lightner’s behalf. This is to be her lucky year. “In 1931 you will make more money than you have ever made,” she has been told repeatedly. “And I haven’t done so bad to date,” she grins, “so that must mean something really big.” “In 1931 you will have the greatest success of your career,” a dozen mystics have assured her. But not one tells her she will be happy in love or marriage, not one ventures to predict contentment, none has ever assured her that the true mate awaited just around the corner of time! “Once, when I was playing with a show in New York,” Winnie will tell you, “I heard of a fortune teller in Atlantic City who had made some remarkable predictions for several of my friends. “The day after my show closed I went down but he was gone, packed up and off to Florida, his landlord said. Had paid his bills, too, because business had been good. TRAILS SEERESS “So a couple of weeks later I went to Florida for a vacation— and my fortune. I found him all right and he told me some things that have come true. He foretold the birth of my baby boy within a year of the true date and he predicted a sudden change in my employment, which I suppose pointed toward my work in pictures. SSS ee ee ee SSS eee ee Sa ee ES RT ee ee Se ES Judels Juggles Languages (Current Reader) reason is one of the busiest actors in the film colony. Gertie” is playing now at the...... Theatre. That He Doesn’t Know Charles Judels, who plays a comedy role in “Gold Dust Gertie,” the Warner Brothers feature comedy starring Winnie Lightner and featuring Olsen and Johnson, can speak no language at all except English yet he can imitate ludicrously a half dozen broken dialects and for that “Gold Dust (Advance Reader) The Scandinavians may not have all the “it” in pictures but they seem to have almost a monopoly on The three stars of of laughs, “Gold Dust Gertie,’ which Opens. 2 Btsthe=2..<.... Theatre the comedy. Warner Brothers latest riot Sas ee next, starring Winnie Lightner with Olsen and Johnson in the featured roles, all trace their ancestors to the famous Northern pen insula. WINNIE LIGHTNER OLSEN and JOHNSON Dorothy Christy Claude Gillingwater A Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Hit! Cold Dust Cert She picks her golden way. Makes payboys out of play-boys and dough-boys out of slow boys. The same gold-getter that shook the dust from Broadway— She'll shake you down for all the laughs you’ve got! : No a RIVOLI Me SAT. in Prices Cut No. 10 Cut 60c, Mat 15c le She sips and sips but never slips. “But he didn’t tell me much I didn’t know and hadn’t been told a hundred times before. No one ever seemed to catch that important something that an old gypsy woman had said she saw in my hand and would tell me if I had any more money.” “Once in London, when I was with the Kit Kat club there, I heard of a strange crystal gazer who was becoming the rage with the gay set. He held out in an attic room in an out-of-the-way part of London and would work only at night. A patron had to come alone to his quarters to show his or her confidence in the seer and he charged twenty-five pounds for a reading, more than a hundred dollars. “I got my courage up to the sticking point one night and went there. I had driven past several other nights but my nerve had always failed me. “T parked my escort in the cab around the corner and walked back to his dingy entrance. I had a gun in my pocket and my heart in my mouth. CRYSTAL-GAZING “An old fashioned spring door bell jingled as I went in and all but scared me out of my wits. I found myself in a dimly lighted hallway with wide carpeted steps leading up. All doors off the hallways were closed tightly and I walked up three flights of stairs to the top floor. “IT went through several rooms, each blacker than the last one, with dimmer lights, until I found myself suddenly face to face with a blazing crystal ball, lighted indirectly from some place. “A quiet voice told be to be seated. When I sat down my eyes were on a level with the crystal and just behind it I could make out shadowy features. I never really saw the man at all. The crystal began to spin in my eyes. I wanted to close them but I couldn’t. “That man told me my name, what I was doirig in London, where I had been, how much money I had in the bank. I supposed he got all that from some kind of mental suggestion, after fixing my attention on that crystal. Then he began on the future. ““T see money’, he said, for all the world like the gypsy woman had in Buffalo years ago. ‘I see your name in lights, in front of a cinema’ —I hardly knew what ‘cinema’ meant in those days. “*T see a child’, he went on. ‘Playing on an ocean beach’. ‘I see an airplane. It falls. I see crowds of people.’ “T see smoke, or fog. Everything fades.’ “Right in front of my nose that blazing crystal. clouded and went smoky. “The droning voice went on. ‘There is something there, in the fog, I can not see. It is not certain yet. You will be rich. You will be famous. There is more but I cannot see it. There is something here not yet—yet fixed. It is very strange. There is no more here yet. “Suddenly it made me mad. “Vou better get yourself a new crystal,’ I said and left. I think I made it down those steps in three jumps.” Gillingwater Is A Rich Sugar Daddy ~ In Lightner Film (Biography May 1, 1931) The long lean figure of Claude Gillingwater has become familiar to millions of picture fans during the ten years in which the famous actor has appeared in pictures. Preceding that first appearance, arranged by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, as the grandfather in “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” Gillingwater had played for thirty years upon the American and English stages. Although often considered an English actor, Mr. Gillingwater is really a native Missourian who spent his youth in St. Louis. In pictures Mr. Gillingwater has divided his time almost equally between serious roles and comedy characters. It is in the latter capacity, the one in which he really excels, that he appears in “Gold Dust Gertie,” the current Warner Brothers feature at the talking pictures. Dorothy Christie Is Here In Cast Of “Gold Dust Gertie” (Biography May 1, 1931) Dorothy Christy who plays the part of a battling wife in “Gold Dust Gertie,” the Warner Bros. production starring Winnie Lightner, now at the...... Theatre was born in Reading, Pa. She was educated there and at the Beechwood Finish ing School near Philadelphia. While visiting her sister in Hollywood she met and married Hal Christy, then a title-writer and now successful as a songwriter. When her husband came East to do the book for a musical show she ac ~“pcoimpanied him and continued—her study of the voice under Albert Jeanette. She secured a job in the “Follies” and on the strength of it talked herself into a contract with Schwab and Mandel, giving up her first job before she reported for work. She secured a release from the second, several days later, to-go into the talkies. She has been seen on the screen in “So This Is London,” “Playboy of Paris,” “Big Money,” “Extravagance,” “She Got What She Wanted,” “Caught Cheating,” ‘Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,” “Big Business Girl” and “Party Husband.” Former Follies Girl Supports Lightner In‘“‘Gold Dust Gertie” _ , (Biography May 1, 1931) Vivian Oakland who plays one of the twin wives in Gold Dust Gertie” California town. She was launched on the stage at five, making her grown up debut at the old Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. In 1916 she appeared in the “Follies” and afterward was under the management of Erlanger, and Dillingham, and was for two years in the Orpheum circuit. Miss Oakland is five feet six inches in height, weighing one hundred and thirty-seven pounds. She has blue eyes and blonde hair. Miss Oakland is the wife of John T. Murray. Among pictures in which she has appeared are “Madonna of Avenue A,” “The Time, the Place and the Girl,” “Viennese Nights,” “Back Pay” and. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Winnie is still seeking the answer to what the gypsy woman in Buffalo saw in her palm. She has since gone to hundreds of fortune tellers. ici Siemens deeded ebaeaieneoeet oad See She will probably be a fortunetelling fan all her life. Others in the cast of “Gold Dust Gertie” are, Olsen and Johnson, famous clowns of nonsense—Dorothy Christy, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Hoyt, George Byron, Vivian Oakland, Charley Grapewin, Charles Judels and Virginia Sale. Roy Del Ruth directed. Page Five