GREEN ISLAND

Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 14

GREEN ISLAND

Out of the most appealing of fictional triangles,' ‘Laddie,’ coming to the Municipal, Green Island, to-mor-row, R.K.O. Radio picture, based on the world-famous Gene Strar;ton-Porter novel, builds what is said to be one of the finest of screen romances. Mrs Stratton-Porter wove so deftly the human sympathy and drama into ‘Laddie,’ that the novel is 'listed among the 10 best sellers of the last 60 years. And it comes to the screen with all the charm of her literary genius intact. Laddie, a sou of the soil, college-bred, but preferring to follow in his father’s footsteps as a farmer, meets the “Princess,” an English girl of noble family. Her father symbolises tho blue-blood social level. It is a tremendous battle ot, for, and by love, that ensues; with dramatic situations interwoven in the subplot and the humour threads, it is tribute to the power of the story, that it has 40,000,000 readers all over the world to-day; and R.K.O. Radio, makers of ‘ Little Women ’ and ‘Anne of Green Gables,’ spared nothing to give similar distinction to the photoplay wrought out of the classic novel. John Beal has the title role, and Gloria Stuart is the “Princess.” Other important roles are in tho hands of, Gloria Shea, Charlotte Henry, Donald Crisp, Willard Robertson, Dorothy Peterson, Greta Meyer, Grady Sutton, Virginia Weidler, and Jimmy Butler. George Stevens directed for R.K.O. Radio.