BUNDLING BUNDLING GAY THEME OF PARAMOUNT MOUNT PICTURE The first member of the New England Eng Eng- land clergy who attempted to put a astop astop astop stop to the courtship custom known as bundling to our forefathers was mobbed by irate mothers mother He was the Rev Seth of New Hampshire and he is the prototype of Squire Banks the Puritanical blue bluenose bluenose bluenose nose in the rollicking new comedy of love during the Revolutionary war warThe warThe warThe war war- The Pur Pursuit uIt of Happiness HappIness- at the Paramount theater this week The picture adapted from last years year's sensational sensational sen Broadway bundling play by Lawrence Langer and Armina Marshall stars Fran Francis ls Lederer Joan Bennett M Mary Mry ry Boland and Charlie Ruggles The Rev was wu a voice cryIng crying crying cry cry- ing in the wilderness back in 1770 A Congregationalist preacher he gave up his pulpit to roar down sinover sinover sin sinover over the entire New England coun oun try Bundling was his personal devil and he waged a long hard fight to oust the practice from the homes of the colonists i But in those days bundling was almost al most the cornerstone of the social structure Since the settlement of the colonies in the bundling had been resorted to by each generation generation genera genera- tion as a means ot of courtship during the long hard cold New England winters Its protagonists claimed that without it there would be too many spinsters too many roving men and that love would have died of exposure The Pursuit of Happiness deals with the romance ce between a young Hessian soldier who deserts the Brit Brit- serve Washington and a a pretty Puritan maid The quaint colonial flavor adds to the pictures picture's charm A novelty act The Girl From Paradise and Fox News complete the bilL