The Tivoli
“HOLD ’EM JAIL” The thought of a prison football team is funny enough to begin with; but when it is carried out to the extreme in absurd equations, when the entire prison is given a collegiate atmosphere with bands, cheering sections and an an enthusiastic alumni with quaint and original methods of obtaining new football talent, the basic idea easily becomes a laugh riot. Just how funny the whole nonsensical whim can be is demonstrated by the RKORadio picture, “Hold ’Em, Jail,” now at the Tivoli Theatre, with Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey, Edna May Oliver and Eoscoc Ates in the leading roles. The vehicle is the happiest selection possible for Wheeler and Woolsey. Wheeler is presented as the ' 'world’s greatest athelte, the man who invented athlete’s foot.” The stuttering Eosco Ates is the Bidcmore quar-ter-back who heartlessly accepts a
parole at a critical moment of the “big game’’ and nearly wrecks Bidcmore’s chances for the “Penitentiary Conference Championship.” There will be a matinee to-morrow afternoon.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7280, 6 October 1933, Page 3
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167The Tivoli Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7280, 6 October 1933, Page 3
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