MY WIFE'S FAMILY AT MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 225, 17 May 1932, Page 3

MY WIFE'S FAMILY AT MAJESTIC

REALLY OUTSTANDJING COMEDY A really good comedy is "My Wife's Family" at the Majestic. It is 1 not a comedy in patches — it is comedy from curtain to curtain, to employ a stage term that is out of vogue in these talkie days. Mothers-in-law have always been a joke with the world, if not with its husband, and this is a mother-in-law comedy, par excellence. It has been said that when the mother-in-law comes in the door, happiness flies out the window. Jack Gay and his wife found it so, but their happiness will provide their audiences with unending hilarity. It is a tale about a baby and a piano — two objects not easily confused, but in this case the cause of a great deal of heartburning before the mystery was solved. Jack Gay wanted to give his wife a piano, but his wife mixed up the gift with the baby — and that was where the mother-in-law came into the story. The picture has a laugh in every line, for the dialogue is crisp and clever, without being forced. The much-harried son-in-law at times rises to supreme heights of invective when he carries the war into his mother-in-law's camp, and provides a number of new expressions which have the virtue of novelty as well as ' 'conciseness. The whole picture, although its 'effect could be fully achieved only by the screen, has the more substantial body of a stage play. It has been excellently written and an outstanding cast makes the most of it. Altogether it is an 'exceptionally bright show, and as a depression antidote alone, well worth while. A musical "short" well above the average standard, a news-reel and an interesting record of biscuit manufacturing in New Zealand make up the remainder of an excellent programme "My Wife's Family" is screening for four nights with matinees on Tuesday and W'ednesday.