Sit Tight (Warner Bros.) (1931)

THE YEAR’S COMEDY KNOCKOUT! Get Rid Of 1000 Of Your Best Laughs! There’s some bigger and better laughs hiding near. your funnybone — laughs that you haven’t exercised for years. Come on and shake them loose with WARNER BROS. Present SIT IGHT with WINNIE LIGHTNER . & or * \9 oS Cut No. 14 Cut goc Mat roc 180 Lines _CO-STARS OF “SIT TIGHT” OFFER INTERESTING RECIPES FOR THOSE WHO LIKE CULINARY DELICACIES Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown, Now at the......... Theatre, Submit Directions for Making Unusual Dishes. (Funny Feature) Everybody has a hobby and Joe E. Brown and Winnie Lightner, now drawing capacity audiences to the Theatre in Warner Bros. “Sit Tight,’ are no exception to the rule. Winnie’s favorite fresh water food is river carp, which she pre dogs. idea that I was not to be an actress. *|for my act. WINNIE MEANT TO DO TRAGEDY BUT FATE GAVE HER THE CAP AND BELLS OF THE JESTER Winnie Lightner, Co-Starred With Joe E. Brown in “Sit Tight” at the Theatre, Tells How Fate Did It. (Plant This Interesting Feature.) Winnie Lightner was late to her first public performance. If she had been on time the world might have lost its funniest comedienne and Warner Brothers could never have made ‘‘Sit Tight,’’ her latest and most riotous comedy, which opens .... at the At seventeen Winnie had aspirations to sing on the stage, but with the usual seriousness of youth she was set upon a career as a dramatic soprano and theatrical sob sister. Tired of hearing her rehearse daily, for hours at a time, her family finally consented to her appearance in the eee ec eee ee neighborhood theatre in Buffalo. She]. was scheduled to sing the lugubrious songs that had driven her family to distraction during those apparently endless weeks of practice. “When the eventful night arrived everything went wrong,” says the “Sit Tight” songster. “It poured cats and Even nature seemed set on the The taxi to the theatre broke down —too much water in the carburetor or too little in the driver—and I ran through rain to the stage entrance. “T got there just in time to go on They gave me no time to put on make-up, change my clothes or even clean the mud off my shoes. I was just another home town girl trying to make good—and it didn’t matter anyhow. “T was literally pushed out in front of a dingy little drop curtain and told to make it snappy. So I started my supposedly dramatic song, with gestures that I had rehearsed so long, before my mirror at home. I must have been a sight. My hair was wet and streaming across my face. My shoes and stockings were muddy. I was out of breath and scared blue. “T had expected to tear their hearts out. I was sure I was good. But they gave me the ha ha. At first I was panicked. Then I got wise, forgot my fright and clowned my SS Oat her a er next. tragic song as though I had intended it to be a burlesque. It went over with a bang! “So I knew I was doomed to be a comedienne. I am a comedienne but I still think I could get away with murder as Lady Macbeth!” Something like this happened to Miss Lightner in pictures. Signed for a supporting role in “Gold Diggers of Broadway,” by Warner Bros., her first few days of work left little impression upon executives. Then suddenly they began to note that this red-headed irrepressible was dominating every scene in which she appeared. Long before the first picture was finished Warner Brothers knew that Winnie was a winner for the talking screen and had her name on a contract. When “Gold Diggers of Broadway” was released the whole world hailed a new screen comedienne of first rank and her name blazed in lights across all the Main Streets, including Broadway. Winnie had long been a popular clown on the New York stage and over important vaudeville circuits but it took talking pictures to make her a national institution. Every performance since that memorable first picture has proved her unique genius for fun-making. “The Life of the Party,” preceded “Sit Tight,” which co-features Miss Lightner with Joe E. Brown. The romantic interest in this comedy is carried by Claudia Dell and Paul Gregory. Hobart Bosworth has an important role. Lloyd Bacon directed. “Sit Tight” is now packing 7em in at the Theatre. CLOWN PRINCE OF ———-S “Hold Everything” and Hey! Look Who’s here! Winnie and Joe! Together again! Some fun, Roe kid! ! WINNIE LIGHTNER JOE E. BROWN Now STRAND Cut No. 9 Cut 20¢ Mat 5c 85 Lines JOJO AND WINNIE RON “HEALTH” INSTITUTE (Advance Short) “Sit Tight,” the Warner Bros. production which comes to the ........ Theatre next, presents Joe E. Brown and Winnie Lightner as “physicians” in charge of a health institute. Biggest laughing hit of the year. Lloyd Bacon directed. SAENGER’S JOY SEEN HERE IN “SIT TIGHT” pares in the following manner: Soak the carp over night in soda water. Ciean well and fasten to a pine board... Stand the board and fish in the sun for three hours. Then throw the fish away and cook the board. Joe E. Brown says that of all_his table triumphs none has been so successful as his metallic soup. Take one pound of tacks, two pounds Stik AN/D—— Put them both together they spell of staples and four hinges, the rustier the better. dust. Add a dash of emery Soak four pounds of BB shot until they swell and add to mixture. Pour on five gallons of water and boil three days. While preparing either delicacy it might be well to decide to come to the Theatre where Winnie and Jojo are co-starred in “Sit Tight,”? Warner Bros. latest comedy hit. “Sit Tight’ is adapted from a story by Rex Taylor. Lloyd Bacon directed. (Biography as of Jan. 1, 1930) Joseph KE. Brown was born in Holgate, Ohio. At the age of nine he became the youngest member of The Five Marvelous Ashtons, a troupe of aerial acrobats. He usually played through the summer and went back to his home in .Toledo for school in the winter. PROGRAM READERS Winnie Lightner in | “Sit Tight.” Cut No. 20 Cut 15¢ Mat 5¢ JOE-WINNIE IN HIT (Advance Short) Joe E. Brown, of the diminutive mouth, and Winnie Lightner of the clinging-vine tenderness, appear at the Theatre next in “Sit Tight,”? which may honestly be dubbed the funniest picture of the year. The two laffmakers are keepers. of a fake health institute. “Sit Tight”? is directed. by Lloyd Bacon. eoerece ee cee ee BAIUAULOG «eee ees Joe E. Brown in “Sit Tight.” Cut No. 21 Cut 15¢ Mat 5¢ HEALTH INSTITUTE (Advance Short) If you are looking for health, apply at once for admission to the upstate institution opened by Joe E. Brown and Winnie Lightner—only don’t ask what kind of health. The two laughmakers are to be seen at the Mae Goce ee -.. Theatre next in Warner Bros. latest comedy hit, “Sit Tight.” The Ashtons were filling a vaudeville engagement in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake of 1907. The next season he worked for another manager. Then his leg was broken. baseball with the St. Paul team when he was 17, and then with the Yankees. More vaudeville bookings followed. Brown decided he wanted to be a comedian and joined a New York burlesque show. He appeared in “Listen Lester,’ “Jim Jam Jems,” “Greenwich Village Follies,” “Betty Lee,” ‘Captain Jinks” and ‘Twinkle, Twinkle.” The pictures he played in were “Crooks Can’t Win,” “The Circus Kid,” “Hit of the Show?’ “On With the Show,” “Song of the West,” “Sally,” “Hold Everything,” “Top Speed” and “Maybe It’s Love.” He is under contract to First National for whom he recently appeared in “Going Wild.” He is five feet, 8 inches tall, weighs 148 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes. He tried professional |. WARNER BROS. Present SIT TIGHT with WINNIE LIGHTNER JOE E. BROWN Paul Gregory, Lotti Loder LAUGHTER longer, louder, funnier! Imagine Joe as a wrestler with a permanent cramp between the ears. Imagine Winnie as a doctor with the pep that mends broken hearts. It's. twice as funny as their funniest! Cut No. 7 Cut goc Mat roc 140 Lines