The Tivoli

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7027, 10 December 1932, Page 3

The Tivoli

“CAUGHT PLASTERED’ ’ “It's a Bort Wheeler and Robert Woolsey comedy, this Radio Pictures “Caught Plastered,” which opened at the Tivoli theatre yesterday. This is “ ’null said.” However, for the benefit of those who have not seen these incorrigible laugh kings, the picture not only is funny, but it is funny in an altogether refreshing way. It combines new laughs and dramatic tensity. In between these two extremes are little giggles, big-smiles and heartaches. There is even some slapstick, and plenty of giddy patter. Opposite Wheeler is Dorothy Lee, a combination fittingly called the “Borneo and Juliet of the Comedy World.” Wheeler's whimsical love-making and Dorothy's charm are very much in evidence all through the picture. Action plunges into an absorbing story, strange as that may seem in connection with comedy. Tommy Tanner (Wheeler) and Higginbotham (Bobert Woolsey) enter a mid-western town on their uppers. They meet Ma Talley (Lucy Beaumont)' who is about to lose her drug store because of the machinations of a villain (Jason Bobards). They take over 1 the store to save her from the poorliouse, and are about ready to pay the “heavy” when ho spikes their soda with liquor and tips off the police. When things are darkest Dorothy Lee (daughter of the local police chief) out monoeuvres lhe crook. Douglas Mac Lean wrote the original story and also supervised production, his third straight success since joining Badio as an author-producer. A film of the last Melbourne Cup race will also be screened. A matinee will be held to-day at 2.30 p.m.