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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 273, 21 November 1934, Page 5

fives of a middle-class bigness man, who annoys his neigh Dorrfs with his puns, and his wife, who tries to make him live up to her standard of culture, as learned from popular lectures. Mary Boland and Charles Ruggles, who have been featured together in numerous recent pictures, > are costarred in “Mama Loves Papa,” a comedy written especially for them. It is a story which permits both Miss Boland and Ruggles to display their particular types of comedy to the best advantage. They are cast as a middleaged couple who live outside a big city and commute to town each day, Ruggles to tease fellow office-workers with his

puns, Miss Boland to absorb ideas of “culture” at popular lectures. After one of these lectures, Miss Boland decides her husband must dress in formal clothes on every possible occasion. The next day he goes to work in a cutaway and a bowler. His boss, spotting tho clothes, immediately concludes there was a death in the family, and gives him the day off. Charlie wanders into the park, where he is mistaken for a city official, and forced to participate in a dedicatory exercise, j Tho city’s political boss, dissatisfied with the park commissioner, # decides ! Charlie would do as well as any one' ! else, and appoints him to the job, and a series of hilarious events follow.