Ma's Pride and Joy

Harry Gribbon wants $5000 a week to star in movies for Vince Barnett and his brother, but Aggie Herring's boy, Don Novis, sings in a tenor so high that only dogs can hear him.

Film fans know that the shorts that Bing Crosby (not to be confused with Philippine actor Bingo Crosby) starred in for Mack Sennett helped make him a star. What they may not know is that Sennett hoped lightning would strike again with radio tenor Don Novis, who sings pretty, if you like that sort of music, but needs to be carried by a large cast of comics, including Dorothy Granger and Toby Wing, who gets a couple of lines. Novis had a bit of a movie career, generally as a specialty, and this movie shows why. Gribbon is very funny, though.