MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 201, 18 April 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC

TO-NIGHT "Sit Tight," Warner Brothers' latest comedy, presenting Joe E. Brown and Winnie Lightner, most ludicrous and lovable clowns of the talking screen, opens to-night at the Majestic Theatre. "Sit Tight" is the work of a master of comedy-making, Rex Taylor, and the dialogue of William K. Wells is as peppy as 0. Henry could have made it. Winnie is the slam-em-down and leave-'em-lay physician of a health resort — heaven help the patients — and Joe is Jojo the Tiger, hero (to hear him tell it) of many fistic encounters — and an admirer of beauty as the lady inmates can testify. In the same building is the office of a middle-aged millionaire, Dunlap, who has a pretty daughter, Sally, wh®, through her dad, gets a better job for Tom Weston whom she loves. Tom won't take the job because he hasn't earned it, and he and Sally quarrel and part. Winnie sees him coming, recognises in his Adonis form the white hope for whom she has been looking, hires him on the spot, and has him begin training for the champ. Sally hires a thug to beat him up and discourage him. The hard guy lands on Jojo instead, with amusing results to all but Jojo. Sally gets her pa to kidnap Weston — just at the exciting moment when the big fight is to come off, on which Winne has staked all her fortune. How Weston keeps his word — how Jojo is whisked out of his wits and into oblivion — how Winnie saves the day — how papa Dunlap relents — how Sally learns to like the fight game, and spurs Tom on to victory — are but a few of the flashes which make "Sit Tigiit" the most thrilling as well as the most hilarious comedy seen for many a long day.