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...best pictures to come to Boston in many a day is being shown this week at the Met. Entitled "Ruggles of Red Gap," it features an all star cast, including Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Charles Laughton, Roland Young, and Zasu Pitts. The unusual combination of talent makes this picture one of the most entertaining and humorous pictures of the year...
Francis Lederer is the first matinee idol in years who seems able to delight both sexes and who possesses genuine histrionic talent. Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland again prove their right to the title of Hollywood's champion comedy pair and Joan Bennet is rapidly adding a screen presence to her considerable charms...
...Leherer's delightful bundling techniques, the numerous rique remarks and situations Charles Ruggles' philosophical grumbling that sends the audience chuckling and wheezing. Mr Ruggles plays the comfort-loving father who cares little for church-going, flag waving or his wife's constant admonitions and advice. Mary Boland is given little opportunity to be her usual hysterical self, but she carries off the part of the dominating mother with comical sterness while Mr. Ruggles is stealing most of their scenes...
Based on stories by E. W. Hornung (Raffles), Stingaree is well-photographed, contains some florid acting by Mary Boland as a fluttery provincial lady, would be routine operetta if it contained more songs...
...unlike the fish, innocuously poisonous. Mr. Richard Dix gives his dashingly middle-aged performance, while Miss Irene Dunne "takes everything in her stride". The part of Sir Julian Kent is played by Conway Tearle with refined restraint; there was nothing else he could do with it. Mary Boland enlivens the highly improblematic plot by a too realistic portrayal of the Colonial dowager aspiring to be a prima donna and pictorial shots of sheep grazing and the Stingaree galloping into the night add to the effect. The remainder of the picture concerns itself with the dramatic escapades of Australia's gentlemanly...