WHEELER & WOOLSEY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 270, 9 July 1932, Page 7

WHEELER & WOOLSEY

"CAUGHT PLASTERED" AT THE MAJESTIC ON MONDAY. AN ABSORBING STORY. It's a Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey comedy, this Radio Pietures Caught, Plastered," which opens at the Majestie Theatre on Monday. That is " 'nuff said." However for the benefit of those who haven't seen these incorrigible laugh kings, the pieture not only is funny, but it is f unny in an altogether refreshing way. It combines new laughs and dramatic tensity. In between these two extremes are little giggles, big smiles and heart aches. There is even some slapstick, and plenty of giddy patter. Opposite Wheeler is Dorothy Lee, | a combination fittingly called the Romeo and Juliet of the Comedy World." Wheeler's whimsieal lovemaking and Dorothy's charm are very much in evidence all through the pieture. Action plunges into an absorbing story, strange as that may seem in connection with comedy. Tommy Tanner (Wheeler) and Eg- - bert Higginbotham (Robert Woolsey) enter a midwestern town on

j their uppers. They meet Ma Talley | (Lucy Beaumont) , who is about to lose her drug store because of the machinations of a villain (Jason Robards). They take over. the store to save hei from the poorhouse, and are about ready to pay the "heavy" when he spikes their soda with liquor and tips off the police. When things are daikest, Dorothy Lee (daughter of the local police chief), outmanouevres the crook.