“RUGGLES OF RED GAP”

Northern Advocate, 12 August 1935, Page 3

“RUGGLES OF RED GAP”

CHARLES LAUGHTON AT HIS BEST. PLAZA ENTERTAINMENT. With Charles Laughton, eminent English actor, in the title role, “Ruggles of Red Gap,” Harry Leon Wilson’s famous story of society in the backwoods of America during the rollicking 1900’s came to the Plaza Theatre on Saturday. The picture features Laughton, with an all-star comedy cast, including Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, Roland Young and Zasu Pitts, in the ludicrous tale of the perfect butler, won in a poker game and taken to a small Western town to create a furore among the socialites. The picture opens in London where “Ruggles" changes masters as the result of an all-night poker session. On his first day with his new, and democratic, master, “Ruggles” starts out to show him the pictures galleries and winds up on a drunken spree. Taken to Red Gap, U.S.A., he is introduced to local society as Colonel Ruggles of the- English Army. The butler becomes so infused with the democratic spirit himself that he loses his old feeling of servility and starts cut on a career of his own. The- comic effects of Red Gap society when “Ruggles" begins courting the town's leading widow and setting himself up in business as a restaurateur are brought to a happy conclusion when he achieves both ambitions. Laughton, round, jovial and plump, renders an inspired performance in the comic of this favourite of all butlers, and the balance of the cast match him laugh for laugh in the incredibly comic sequences, Maude Eburnc and Lcota Lorraine, a newcomer. prove agreeable surprises rn miner characterisations. Credit tor a fine Job of direction goes to .Loo McCarey. dean of Hollywood comedy directors, “Ruggles of Rt?d Gap” is a picture which is recommended to picture-goc-r.c.