WORLD'S SWEETHEART

Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 2

WORLD'S SWEETHEART

MARY PiGKFORD FOR THE STRAND The manager of the Styund Theatre has not decided yet whether ho is going to call the coming week “ Laugh Week ” or “ Love Weeit ” at his popular playhouse. Mary Pickford in, ‘My Best Girl,’ the feature picture, was directed by Sam Taylor, who is famous for the laughs he put into Harold Lloyd’s productions, and the Pickford picture is said to teem with delightful comedy. On the other hand, ‘ My Best Girl ’ was written by Kathleen Norris, whose love stories are a delight to lovers of romance, and who knows the heart of youth as few other American writers do. ‘My Best Girl ’ is the story of a shop girl, Maggie Johnson, who through all tho hard knocks she receives still retains a belief in better things. She is an enigma to her own family, who cannot understand tho idealism with which she paints out the shadows in their lives. At the store she meets a new employee, Joe Grant, with whom she falls in love. She has no idea that he is the sou of her employer. it is a marvellous romance of two youngsters walking headlong and blindfolded into the trap that Fate has set for them. Maggie' has a sister whoso friendship for a married man nearly wrecks the whole Johnson family, and does play havoc with Maggie’s own romance.

Charles Rogers plays the part of Joe Grant, ana it is expected that this handsome youngster, last seen in ‘Wings,’ will soon be one of the most popular leading men on : the screen. The beautiful Cannelita Geraghty is cast for the part of Liz Johnson, “hard-boiled” sister of Maggie. Hobart Bosworth, the well-known character actor, is the wealthy owner of the big store and the father of the hero. In the several dramatic scenes he is called upon to play his performance has received plaudits of all critics who have viewed the picture. Lucien Littlefield is Maggie’s pa. Among the other members of the cast are Avonne Taylor, Sunshine Hart, and Mack Swain, Charlie Chaplin’s playmate in ‘ The Gold Rush.’ The Kathleen Norris novel was 1 written as a screen play by Allen M'Neil and Tim Whelan, with the technical adaptation by Hope Loring. Many unusual photographic effects have been contrived by Charles Rosher, who has been chief camera man for Miss Pickford during the past ten years.