The Best of Broadway

Comedy that concerns the Brewster sisters, Abby and Martha, who put lonely old men out of their misery by serving them poisoned elderberry wine. Their nephew Teddy buries them in the basement. He thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt and that the bodies are Panama Canal workers that died of yellow fever. Another nephew is Jonathan, an escaped criminal looking for a hideout. He's had plastic surgery to change his looks and now resembles movie actor Boris Karloff. Into this madness comes nephew Mortimer, a drama critic, who tries to set things right.

Aubrey Piper, only a clerk, pretends to be a railroad executive. He comes into the life of the Fisher family when daughter Amy falls in love with him. The family sees through his stories and can't stand him and his blowhard manner, especially Mrs. Fisher. Aubrey ends up unemployed and walking the street wearing a sandwich sign-the only work he can find. Eventually his luck turns and he helps a friend sell a patent and a deal he worked out at the railroad comes through making him wealthy. He marries Amy and her family comes to accept him and his show-off ways.

Story concerns a married couple, actors both, where the husband suspects the wife of losing interest in him. To test her love and fidelity he disguises himself as a royal guardsman and attempts to seduce her. All ends happily although he is never quite sure whether or not she saw through his disguise.

Story of aspiring actresses and dancers who live in a theatrical boarding house. Terry Randall is from a well-to-do family and her superior attitude annoys the other girls. Kaye Hamilton is a sweet, unassuming, totally dedicated actress who aspires to one role in particular. Jean Maitland is the streetwise hoofer with a heart of gold who rooms with Terry. After Terry outmaneuvers Kaye for the coveted part Kaye commits suicide, turning the other girls against her and forcing Tracy to do some soul searching. Jean helps Terry to learn a few things about herself and Terry emerges a better person and actress.

Dancer Roy Lane and gangster Steve Crandell vie for the affection of chorus girl Billie Moore amidst gangland turf battles, dancing girls, bootleggers and assorted Broadway types.