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By JAMES A. DANIELS
anything else in Europe to get a poker game! which explains into the roughexplains how screen charac*
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how Ruggles, the perfect British Jw valet, found himself pitch-forked JB and-ready American frontier town^J of Red Gap. • All of which also
Academy Award for his serious the title role of Paramount's "Ruggles of Red Gap", the screen. He had scored effectively in this type of to cast him in such parts as the mad doctor in "The Island 'The Cross" and as that doughty ruler of Britain, "Henry VIII". • Then came "Ruggles of Red Gap"— -and Laughton's comedy chance. And how he plays it! ♦ As Ruggles, the perfect servant in the Harry Leon Wilson story, Laughton comes to America in the employment of the socially-minded Mary Boland of Red Gap. His particular mission is to "civilize" Cousin Egbert, as played by the inimitable Charlie Ruggles. Every woman has a Cousin Egbert lurking in the background. But what happens
She had dreamed about him all her life. • She wanted him more than the world and she travelled all the way from Red Gap, U.S.A. to him! e And furthermore, she got her man, even if she had to win him in And what woman wouldn't to get the perfect servant? • All of how Ruggles, the perfect British and-ready American frontier town Charles Laughton, winner of the 1933 terizations, gets his first big comedy chance in Laughton has always wanted to play comedy on role on the stage. But screen producers continued of Lost Souls", Emperor Nero in "The Sign of
to the prim English valet in the plots ever concocted. • Just to | Young, Zasu Pitts and Lucien the manner in whichj a gesture of the his walk is funny !who makes his bow
land of the free furnishes one of the most hilarious comedy add to the general hilarity, the cast also includes Rolanc 1 Littlefield. « But watch Laughton as a comedian. Watch he gets howls of laughter with a lift of the eyebrows, ands, a swift change of facial expression. Even That's the new and surprising Charles Laughton as a funny man in "Ruggles of Red Gap".
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