Gentleman's Gent as a Real Ladies' Man

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 196, 21 August 1935, Page 11

Gentleman's Gent as a Real Ladies' Man

LAUGHTON TOPS STAR COMEDIAN “KUGGLES” CAST (Regent: Coming Soon.) Charles Laughton, Motion Picture Academy award winner, and one of the foremost actors of the English-speaking stage and screen, is assisted by five of Hollywood’s leading comedy players in Paramount’s “Ruggles of Red Gap,” the picturisation of Harry Loon Wilson’s famous story. With Laughton in the title role, are Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, Roland Young, Zasu Pitts and Leila I-Iyams. Tho picture opens in London in the gay and gusty 1900’s, when Egber; Froud, a rough diamond from America ■wins “Ruggles,” the perfect butlervalet, from his titled master in a poker game.

Back to the States goes “Ruggles” with Ms new master and mistress, but his new master, bred on tho democratic principle, introduces “Ruggles” to the town as a Colonel in tho English Army. “Ruggles” becomes tho lion of lied Gap society and becomes infected with tho democratic idea Mmselfa Ho .do-

eides to open a lunch-room and bccomo self-supporting. Thcro is, of course, a . concerted howl from Red Gap’s self-constituted society, and a great deal of comedy, but finally “Ruggles,” with, the assistant of'tho-.town's leading widow who

has becomo enamored of the perfect butler) achieves his ambition. Leo MeCavey, well-known comedy director, made “Ruggles of Red Gap.” Maudo Eburnc and Lucieu Littlclield are prominently cast in the supporting cast of tho picture.