MAJESTIC THEATRE
TO-NIGHT "My Wife's Family," described as the funniest film farce ever produeed, opens to-night at the Majestic Theatre. The plot of this film is concerned with the feud between Jack Gay and his interfering 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 failed and she has completely destroyed the happiness of his home, finally retaliates a"nd devises terrible epithets for hsr. "Canal-boat," "poisonous old cat-fish," "battle cruiser" and 'sarcastic as well as ugly," he barlcs , 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 exterior scenes. Gene Gerrard stars in 'My Wife's Family," supported hy Muriel Angelus, Jimmy Godden, Amy Veness, Charles Paton and Dodo Watts. Matinees will be given on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 224, 16 May 1932, Page 3
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