EXCELLENT FARCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 223, 14 May 1932, Page 2

EXCELLENT FARCE

GENE GERRARD STARRING IN "MY WIFE'S FAMILY." FOR THE MAJESTIC. "My Wife's Family," described as the funniest film farce ever produced, comes to the Majestic Theatre on May 16, Monday next. The plot of this film is coneerned with the feud between Jack Gay and his interferinV mother-in-law — in fact Arabella is the most complete mother-in-law ever achieved on stage or screen. She is suspicious, interfering, sarcastic, narrow minded, bossy and unbeautiful. She says and does all the things that have made mother-in-laws a stock joke. Her son-in-law, however, after his efforts to appease her ill-nature have f ailed and. she has completely destroyed the happiness of his home, finally retaliates and devises terrible epithets

for her. "Canal-bogt," "poisonous old cat-fish," "battle cruiser" and "sarcastic as well as ugly," he barks at her. The action in the picture takes place in and around a country house and a beautiful garden which boasts ornamental water, rose arbours, crazy pavings, box hedges and shady trees. is the background for the e.xterior scenes.. Gene Gerrard stars in "My Wife's Family," supported by Muriel Angelus, Jimmy Godderi, Amy Veness, Charles Paton and Dodo Watts.