MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 March 1932, Page 2

MAJESTIC

TO-NIGHT Probably the most hilarious and side-splitting comedy yet to grace the talking screen can be marked off to First National and its appreeiated effort, "Top Speed." Joe E. Brown, who scored signally in "Hold Everything," has the role of a 35 dollar a week broker's clerk loose on a vacation among millionaires. Is Joe dishearteneid? No! Brandishing a foot long eigar he informs all and sundry that he and his partner, who is Jack Whiting, a eoelerk, are really and truly multimillionaires. Yes, sir, Jack designed the famous Jack airplane motor, and won last year's speed boat races at Monte Carlo, and is a nominee for the presideney of the New York Stock Exchange. ' "Where," the country club girls demand, "is Jack?" "Oh," says Brown, "on the porch. We just tossed for a million dollars and he won. He's counting his money." Brown's hoasting of Jack's speed boat skill finally gets Jack invited to pilot the boat belonging to Bernice Claire's father. The rival manufacturing concern has a representative at the race who recognises Jack, and under threat that he will expose him before the girl he loves, demands that Jack take a 30,000 dollar bribe to throw the race. The climax is a gripping, realistic pieturisation of an actual recordbreaking race which is decided to everyone's satisfaction — except the rival coneerns. Laura Lee has the comedienne's role and Ne\y York critics have acclaimed the pert star the outstanding funster in filmdom.