IN TECHNICOLOUR

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3257, 30 April 1943, Page 5

IN TECHNICOLOUR

“BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST” PROGRAMME AT REGENT . . / * DRAMATIC & HEART-TOUCHING Inspired by the life of Mrs Edna Gladney of Fort Worth, founder of the Texas Children’s Home and Aid Society, who has devoted thirty years to child welfare and has found happy, homes for more than 2000 1 babies, “Blossoms in the Dust,” starring Greer Garson and Waller Pidgeon, will show at the Regent Theatre on Saturday and. Monday. Filmed in Technicolour, the picture , reveals for the first time the full beauty of the greeneyed Irish actress who rose to stardom overnight with her memorable ’ “Mrs Chips” in “Goodbye, Mr Chips.” Now, as Mrs Gladney, she has been given another tender, warmly human role of equal brilliance. The most dramatic and hearttouching’ story ever brought to the screen, the picture opens, in the way, colourful Gibson Girl period of 1906, when lovely Edna Kahley meets, falls in love with and marries Sam Gladney, played by Pidgeon. Mrs Gladney becomes interested in child welfare when she' observes the difficulties women workers in her husband’s flour mill have in caring for their childrenSimply and quietly Mrs Gladney goes about her chosen • work of helping babies and assuring reforms in adoption laws. When Sam Gladney suffers financial reverses and loses the mills they move to Fort Worth, where Mrs Gladney rings every doorbell in Texas in order’ to secure funds' to start a new home. The screen has never brought a more beautiful romantic story to the screen than this one of a woman who fell in love with 2000 babies. FINALLY TO-NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE “Kisses For Breakfast” and. “Go West, Young Lady” will show finally to-night at the Regent Theatre.