MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 181, 24 March 1932, Page 7

MAJESTIC

TO-NIGHT Mr. Hardy was a man of ide'as — Mr. Laurel was the failure of the aforesaid ideas. And what a screamingly funny failure! When Laurel' and Hardy's first fulllength picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, "Pardon Us," opens at the Majestic Theatre to-night, the audience will roar and roar at the antics of these two famous comedians. The story opens with Laurel and Hardy making out a list of goods necessary to make "prohibition beer." Next we see them in prison, confessing that they tried to sell the first bottle to a policeman, having mistaken him for a tram conductor. Laurel, who has a loose tooth which makes a noise like a "raspberry" every time he speaks, gets into hot water with the warden through this complaint. When his punishment for this is over, however, he. strikes more trouble when I placed in his cell. Here, a notorious gangster and bully — "Tiger" — troubles Laurel and Hardy, especially when Stan opens his mouth to utter a protest and his tooth gives "Tiger" the raspberry. He receives further they unwittingly help "Tiger" and must be a very good kind to give him the "bird"; and they become friends. Next day, in the prison schoolroom, the erring tooth again fouls the boys, and they are thrown in to the dungeon. Following this punishment, they unwittingtly help "Tiger" and some of his gangsters to escap.e, and are also carried out with the rush. All are recaptured except Laurel and Hardy — and later we find them posing as negro cotton-pickers. Once again Laurel's tooth gives them away, however — but you must: see for yourself how — it's worth it! From this juncture, the laughs niultiply even faster, and finishes with ah ' exciting prison riot (after "The Big House") — with Laurel and Hardy in the thick of things, of course, but being credited with saving the officials' lives — and receiving free pardons.