JOYOUS ADVENTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 572, 26 January 1929, Page 16

JOYOUS ADVENTURES

WITH MOTHER-IN-LAW IN PARIS “Adam’s Apple” is described as being one of the merriest films ever presented on either side of the Atlantic, and was so received in Britain. It has the merit, too, not only of being absolutely clean in its humour, but also of treating one of the most hackneyed of all jokes—that of the mother-in-law—without a touch of offence. It is just the story of a honeymoon to be taken in I*aris and London, upon which Monty Banks starts with his “wee wifie”—brfllis-ntly played by Gillian Bean. He had not calculated with her mother, who “came too.” Moreover, she consigned to him the care o:f all her pets, including a dog, a cat, and a parrot, who entered into a conspiracy to deprive Banks even of his first night’s rest on the voyage. In Paris there are some joyous adventures, especially when the good lady imbibed too much of what she imagined was soda water in a Montmartre dancing saloon, and was turned out for riotous behaviour. The plot to kidnap her on her arrival in London, which came to grief /through the kidnapping of the wife by mistake, has the happy touch of a P. G. Wodehouse story-.