MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 202, 19 April 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT If any doubts have existed as to whether Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown re the fuuniest people in the talkies, it was dispelled by "Sit Tight," the Warner Bros. and Yitaphone production which opened at the Majestic Theatre last night. Winnie appears as hard-boiled Dr. O'Neil, owner of a health institute where the patients, male and female, are pounded, stretched, steamed, psycho-analysed and otherwise maltreated, in an effort to become the Venuses and Adonises that nature evidently didn't intend them to be. 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. In the same building with the "health institute" is the office of millionaire Dunlap, who has a pretty daughter, Sally, captivatingly portrayed by Claudia Dell. Sally secures a better job for her lover, Tom Weston (Paul Gregory) and quarrels with him when he refuses to take what he has not earned. As Tom leaves, Winnie corrals him, recognises in his husky build the white hope for which she has been looking and employs him on the spot. 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 he 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.