Sit Tight (Warner Bros.) (1931)

“SIT TIGHT’—A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Production “SIT TIGHT,” RUFFSTUFF TORNADO, PRESENTS WINNIE LIGHTNER AND JOE BROWN AT THEIR FUNNIEST Cut No. 12 Cut 30c Mat roc JOE E. BROWN and WINNIE LIGHTNER in “SIT TIGHT.” (Review Featuring the Cast) If any doubts have existed as to whether Winnie Ligthner A —_— Tomboy of Talkies Comes to Town in “Sit Tight” (Biography as of Jan. 1, 1930) Winnie Lightner, who is co-starred with Joe E. Brown in “Sit Tight,” the Warner Bros. comedy now at the Theatre, was born in Greenport, Long Island. She was brought up in Buffalo by an uncle, and early evinced a determination to go on the stage as a singer. Her first intention was to be a tragic figure in songs and acting, but the audience’s ridicule when she appeared after running through a thunderstorm to make her first professional appearance at her neighborhood theatre in Buffalo, made her decide to clown her songs, which she did with the success which all the world now knows. Some months later she was seen on a Palace Bill in New York and was later featured in George White’s “Seandals” and in “Gay Paree. After a successful European tour which included engagements in London and Paris, Miss Lightner returned to the United States, came to the attention of a Warner Bros. executive, and was featured in “Gold Diggers of Broadway” in which she made a phenomenal success. She appeared as one of the seventyseven stars in Warner Bros. “Show of Shows,” in “She Couldn’t Say No,” “Hold Everything,” “The Life of the Party” and in “Sit Tight” in which she does the most uproarious slapstick of her career. -§ OC ew ee eee IT Cut No. 16 Cut 4oc Mat toc TWO GREAT STARS De | 'y TIGHT with WINNIE LIGHTNER JOE E. BROWN "58 Tim Joe E. Brown Dilates On His Latest Game Of Gruffet Snapping Brown and Lightner Now at the Theatre in Warners’ “Sit Tight” (Advance Story) The little known sport of Gruffet Snapping, which Joe FE. Brown claims is his favorite outdoor pastime between pictures, has been explained at length by this famous comedian. While he and Winnie Lightner, who co-star in “Sit Tight,” the new Warner Brothers comedy deluxe which opens at the .. Theatre, were waiting for a eall to make a scene in the picture, the wide-mouthed comedian ex a eee eee eee eres plained his peculiar sport as follows: “Gruffet Snapping is a sport for kings and deuces, or any three of a kind. First you find a Gruffet, which is easy, because I never knew a Gruffet to be anywhere except in plain sight. Then you take a filatiron and dig a hole in the sand. Now make a sandwich out of two pieces of linoleum and four fried apples. Then snap the Gruffet and hurry away—and if you ean find anything that’s more fun than that T’d like to know about it.” The firm of Brown and Lightner is forever devising new and alarming games like the above and giving the giddy details to their friends. Much of their spontaneous humor is caught by the camera and microphone in “Sit Tight” which is the most hilarious comedy of many seasons. In the cast are Claudia Dell, Paul Gregory, Hobart Bosworth and many others. Lloyd Bacon directed. and Joe EH. Brown are the funniest people in the talkies, it is dispelled by ‘‘Sit Tight,’’ the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production with opened at the . ....... Theatre last night. SIT TIGHT FOR A COMEDY KNOCKOUT! Winnie appears as hard-boiled Dr. O’Neil, owner of a health institute where the patients, male and female, are pounded, stretched, steamed, psycho-analyzed, and otherwise maltreated, in an 6ffert to become the Venuses and Adonises that nature evidently didn’t intend them to be. Dr. 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 compelled to resort to her most hard-swatting tactics to keep him in proper submission. In the same building 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 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, recognizes 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 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 back in the nick of time—how Sally succumbs to the lure of the ring—how Winnie saves the day—and Ji ojo, though beaten 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 players. “Sit Tight” is a play for the whole family. Rarely has such whole-hearted applause been forthcoming as that which last night greeted “Sit Tight.” ———————<—$—<— <— <— _ _— _ _—_—_—_ _ == JOJO, WINNIE, CO-STAR |WINNIE AND JO DO IN “SIT TIGHT” SOON (Advance Short) Joe E. Brown, whose latest Warner Brothers comedy, “Sit Tight,” in which he is featured with Winnie Lightner, comes to the Theatre next, is a baseball fan and club owner and vaudeville acrobat and funny, man but it was not until the advent of talking pictures that he came rightfully into reel stardom in the amusement world. eee eeresevvee with WINNIE ‘ LIGHTNER JOE E. BROWN Cut No. 17 Cut 20c Matsc 14 Lines ™! ANYTHING BUT “SIT TIGHT” IN COMEDY (Advance Story) “Sit Tight” igs the name of the new Warner Brothers comedy featuring Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown but sitting is about the only thing these two do not do throughout the picture. In spite of this misnomer Miss Lightner and funny-faced Brown do the most strenuous work of their careers in this harvest of guffaws which opens at the .. Theatre next. Winnie is a “health” doctor and Rae hehe, qos ee Brown is Jo-jo the Tiger, her cor-| respondence-school-graduate wrestler and assistant. Between them they lead the patients a merry chase— and the audience, too. Pood When Joe laughs the whole < ae world laughs, but when he D ona ares cries it ROARS! Winsome. He’s weakness women! Winnie wields a wicked left. And she’s got a perfect right. For she’s training Joe to be her sparring partner for life! a strong man with a for wild, wild with The King And Queen Of Comedy = WINNIE LIGHTNER JOE E. BROWN Paul Gregory, Lotti Loder, Hobart Bosworth, Frank Hagney TWO BIG STARS IN ONE BIG HIT! Cut No. 13 Cut 60¢ Maé r5c 333 Lines am em a