Love of Son for Unknown Father

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 151, 29 June 1938, Page 11

Love of Son for Unknown Father

“TOO MANY PARENTS’’ AND AMAZING YOUNGSTERS (Kosy: Now Screening.) Tho love of a son for a father whom he has never seen, and his pathetic attempts to mako the world believe that his father loves him equally provide the story in Paramount’s “Too Many Parents. * ’ “Too Many Parents,” with FranceFarmer and Lester Ai at thews playing tho adult leads, features Buster Phelps, Billy Lee, George Ernest and Sherwood Bailey as tho juvenile stars in this story of boys 44 without parents”—thrown to !gcther in a military boarding school. The boj's have varied backgrounds; one is an orphan, heir to ten million dollars; another’s parents are divorced, and each romarried; a third boy is tho son of a vaudeville song-and-danco team; and Phil Stewart, whose mother died in giving him birth, has neve seen his father, a globe-trotting engineer. Phil’s eagerness for love shows itself in his writing himself long, affee tionate, chatty letters, purporting t - come from his Dad, filled with tales of adventure. All the boys are terribly envious of Phil, for having such a marvellous father, until one of tho professors, overhearing the reading of a lotter, recognises tho adventure as having been copied from a magazine story.