Sit Tight (Warner Bros.) (1931)

“SIT TIGHT’—A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Production | 5 “SIT TIGHT” ACCLAIMED HERE AS MOST UPROARIOUS COMEDY HIT OF JOJO AND WILD WINNIE (Review Featuring the Story) The capacity audience at the Theatre last night, welcomed with vociferous applause ‘‘Sit Tight,’’ Warner Bros. latest comedy, presenting Joe E. Brown and Winnie Lightner, most ludicrous and lovable clowns of the talking screen. Joey B. and Wild Winnie can set a crowd goofy with ad Greatest Mixed Team Of Merriment! Joe’s a wrestler, fast on his feet but slow between the ears. Winnie’s a health specialist and fast everywhere! What a_ team! Claudia Dell Paul Gregory Lotti Loder Hobart Bosworth agus () AR hay SNE A Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Picture Cut No. 5 Cut 20c Mat sc Joe E. B. Wanted To Be a Babe Ruth But Became Talkies Hit (Advance Story) If Joe E. Brown had been a better ball player he might never have been a star comedian in talking pictures. The wide mouthed funny man would rather play baseball than do anything else—even be funny, and he spent some years trying to qualify as a professional ball player. Brown did play professional ball for a time and managed to make a living at it and that was all. A few years ago he sat a season th on the bench for the New Yankees, but his job was to »__y*the team cheerful rather than to gather any honors for himself on the diamond. Now Brown has found his stride in Warner Brothers features and SS fun, and with no story to speak ‘of—but “Sit Tight” is the work of a master of comedy-making, Rex Taylor, and the dialogue of William K. Wells is as peppy as O. Henry could have made it. It is in the vernacular of the ring’ and the medics, too, for what are the two funny-folks but a female doctor and her male assistant. Winnie is the slap-’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, who, 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, recognizes 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 Winnie 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 Tight” the most thrilling as well as the most hilarious comedy this writer has seen for many a long day. Others in the cast are Claudia Dell, Paul Gregory, Lotti Loder, Hobart Bosworth, Frank Hagney, Snitz Edwards and hundreds of supporting people. Lloyd Bacon directed. “Sit Tight” is one of those rare pictures which everybody likes. Take the whole family and give them the biggest laugh of their lives. makes more money in a year than some ball teams take in in a season, but his admiration for the great American game is just as great as ever. He owns and manages an amateur club of his own in Hollywood. While Joe was making “Sit Tight,” his current comedy in which Winnie Lightner is co-featured and with a east that includes Claudia, Dell, Paul Gregory and Hobart Bosworth —he sprained his right arm so badly that he was unable to play ball for six weeks.. But he never missed seeing a game from the sidelines. Brown and Winnie and their new laugh riot “Sit Tight” are to be seen now at the Theatre. JOE E. BROWN TWO GREAT STARS IN WINNIE LIGHTNER Cut No. 19 Cut goc Mat roc 56 Lines a WINNIE JOE E. LIGHTNER BROWN SIT TIGH Screen’s Wildest Cut-Ups Cut Loose Together! The King and Queen of Comedy Any one of them would slay you with laughter. Together they're a riot! Yes sir! A riot of the kind of comedy the screen has never shown! ‘Twice the fun! Twice the speed! Twice the reason to let loose with all you've got in the way of laughs! Funniest Thing On Four Feet! Funniest Picture In Four Years! Cut No. 11 Cut 60c Mat 15¢ Winnie and Jojo Run Fake Health Resort in Crazy “Sit Tight” (Current Story) The “human form divine” has a lot of odd curves and angles. Most of which are put up for study and in Warner Brothers new laughing hit, “Sit Tight,’ co-starring Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown and featuring Claudia Dell, Paul Gregory and Hobart Bosworth, now showing at the Theatre. Many of the scenes are laid in a “health” institute and gymnasium where hard-swatting Winnie presides as director of calisthenics for the would-be Venus or Adonis. Thirty mirth-provoking patients make up her classes and provide an interesting insight into jthe fearful variety of means utilized at such places to rejuvenate the human figure. “Sit Tight” is a Warner Brothers special, with a score of laughs to the second and several of the best new songs of the season. Lloyd Bacon directed. Se er ee CATCHLINES Wild-Winnie and Jojo-the-Tiger in a Roughneck Riot— SIT TIGHT! Howling Tornado, with Winnie and Jojo—SIT TIGHT! Funniest Team in the Talkies, in Their Funniest Talkie— SIT TIGHT! ee Dr. Winnie and Tiger Jojo Will Cure You—-SIT TIGHT! Watch the Giant Wrestler Wipe the Floor With Jojo the Tiger! You'll Giggle — You'll Gasp — You’ll Guffaw! — SIT TIGHT! ; Winnie and Jojo Run a Health Resort! TIGHT! Oh-Oh! SIT Winnie and Jojo! SIT TIGHT! Going Wild? Hold Everything! See Winnie and Jojo Tonight! Your Troubles on the Gogo! SIT TIGHT! — Go Good Luck Is Headed Your Way—SIT TIGHT!