A KIDNAPPED BABY.
THEME OF CIVIC DRAMA. Powerful human emotion is the chief effect brought out ou to the screen by the story of the new picture listed to open a season to-morrow at the Civic Theatre, replacing the current "Fashions of 1934." The film is "Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen," which provides the brilliant German star Dorothea Wieck with her second film role to be seen in Australasia, the debut being made in "Cradle Song." With her, and said to "steal" all the acting honours of the production, is Baby Le Roy, who came to the talking screen at the age of eight months because of an imagined resemblance to Maurice Chevalier. His pouting lip won him- the coveted child role in "A Bedtime Story." Since that time he has appeared with Claudette Colbert in "Torch Singer," with Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields in "Tillie and Gus," in "Alice In Wonderland," and now in "Misa Fane's Baby Is Stolen." He is said to utter his first word on the screen in this film. It is the inevitable "Mama." In the picture, Miss Wieck plays the vole of a favourite Hollywood actress, Madeline Fane, whose baby eon is a victim of a gang of kidnappers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 139, 14 June 1934, Page 8
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206A KIDNAPPED BABY. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 139, 14 June 1934, Page 8
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