With the memory of Jeanette MacDonald as the delightfully dangerous flirt of "The Firefly" still fresh in the mind, one finds it exceedingly difficult to see here as the gawky, ignorant saloon keeper of "Girl of the Golden West." In spite of her ragged clothes and her western twang (which miraculously disappears now and then), she is as out of place in her crude surroundings as William Randolph Hearst at a Communist meeting. Nelson Eddy, back from his ill-fated venture at West Point, has also been democratized; but the results in his case are all for the good. The story is very far-fetched, and suffers from an insipid happy ending; but Sigmund Romberg's excellent music, sung as only Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy can sing, together with a good supporting cast and the rich browns and delicate blues of the sepia-platinum photography, make the picture entirely worthy of its Easter-weekend billing.

The co-feature is "No Time To Marry," with Richard Arlen and Mary Astor.