Swashbuckling Heroes Hits On Screen

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 271, 12 August 1938, Page 16

Swashbuckling Heroes Hits On Screen

T ITERATURE has given the world only a few real swashbuckling romantic heroes. Whenever one of these characters finds his way into public favour in present-day books and magazines, millions of movie fans await a screen version of the story.

Warner Baxter’s “In Old Arizona” made nine years ago, still brings £lO,OOO annual income from all parts of the world to its producer. This record run is eclipsed only by “The Birth of a Nation” produced in 1915 and still returning a gross £5OOO a year. "In Old Arizona,” which brought Baxter the Motion Picture Academy Award in 1929, .si ill is a favourite in the Argentine, Arabic countries and in other sections of (he globe where horsemanship is a national pastime. In the expectation of creating another “Cisco Kid” character like the hero of “In Old Arizona,” Baxter again has undertaken a swashbuckling, heroic role. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped,” produced 'by Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the greatest of to-day’s movie romanticists plays the leader of the last of the highland rebels against English domination. Baxter is co-featured with Freddie Bartholomew in '‘Kidnapped,” and the

film also introduces to the screen Arleen Whelan.