GOOD COMEDY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 200, 16 April 1932, Page 7

GOOD COMEDY

WINNIE LIGHTNER AND JOE BROWN AT THEIR FUNNIEST. "SIT TIGHT" FOR MAJESTIC. If any douhts have existed as to whether Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown are the funniest people in the tallcies, it is dispelled by "Sit Tight," the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production which opens at the Majestie Theatre on Monday, April 18. Winnie appears as hard-boiled Dr. Q'Neil, owner of a health institute where the patients, male and female, are pounded, stretched, steamed, psycho-analysed and otherwise maltreat'ed, in an effort to become the Venuses and Adonises that nature evidently didn't intend th'em to be. Dr.

Joe Brown and Winnie Lightner. O'Neil is also interested in the fight game, and hopes to discover and develop champion material in the course of her work. Joe" E. Brown is her doubtful assistant who calls himself Jojo the Tiger, and brags without end of the pugs he has knocked out and the medals he has won. Jojo has an eye for' feminine charms, and causes screaming roughhouse among the lady patients. Winnie is eompelled to resort to her most hard-swatting tactics to keep him in proper submission. In the same huilding with the "health institute" is the office of millionaire Dunlap (played by Hobart Bosworth) who has a pretty daughter, Sally, captivatingly portrayed by Claudia Dell. Sally secures a hetter joh for her lover, Torn Westoh (Paul Gregory) and quarrels with him when he refuses to take what he has not earned. As Tom leaves, Winhie corrals him, recobnis'es in his husky huild the white hope for which she has been looking and employs him on the spot. Unfortunate Mistake. Sally, in a rage, tries to dissuade Tom from his decision, but fails. She hires a thug to> beat him up and cure him of his ambition. The thug happens to be a former giant husband of Dr. Winnie. He, by mistake, mixes up with Jojo the Tiger instead of the youth — and Jojo emerges from the drubbing, a sadder and bumpier man. Sally gets her father to kidnap. Weston, just when Winnie has all her money staked on him as winner of the championship. How he gets hsek in the nick of time — how Sally succumbs to the lure of the ring — how Winnie saves the day — and Jojo, though heaten to a pulp, keeps his pep — help to make one of the most exciting and uproarious pictures in movie history. Winnie sings, or rather croons, with her own peculiar roughneck swagger and a real melodramatic punch, several songs — that everybody will be whistling. Others in the cast are Lotti Loder, Frank Hagney, Snitz Edwards and hundreds of supporting playel's. "Sit Tight" is a play for the whole family. Rarely has such whole-hearted applause heen forthcoming as that which has greeted "Sit Tight."