RKO has turned out an absorbing, sensitive story of tolerance and child understanding in The Boy with Green Hair. Story [by Betsy Beaton] is that of a war orphan, shifted around from one relative ...

Peter Frye, typical American boy, is orphaned when his parents ... but the morning after Peter finally learns he's an orphan, his hair spontaneously turns green! The absurd over-reactions of ...

The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed ...