TUDOR THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 160, 1 April 1939, Page 16

TUDOR THEATRE

j “Kidnapped” Warner Baxter portrays in all his swashbuckling, vigorous best, rhe never-to-be-forgotten Alan Brock, fugitive clansman of the highlands, and Freddie Bartholomew gives a line performance as David Balfour, the boy hero of Robert Louis Stephenson’s •’Kidnapped.’’ in the film version of “Kidnapped.” which has ret urned lo Wellington lo show at Ihe Tudor Theatre. Though liberty has been ! taken with the originjil script in introducing a “heart interest” to the life of I Alan Brock. the inclusion of tin* brightI eyed, mist hievoiis Irish lass. Aileen Whe- | lan. brings added freshness and beauty to Ihe story. “Kidnapped" concerns Alan Brock’s leading the elans in revolt against the union of the North Country with George Ill’s domain. David Balfour is the lad wi'h the unscrupulous uncle who tries to keep the boy’s rightful ('slate by having him kidnapped and shipped to America. The lives of Alan Brock and David Balj four cross at the point when? a girl, I fiancee of a lesser robe], falls in love j with Brock. • An impressive east, headed by (’. Aubrey Smith. Reginald Owen. .John Carradine, Xigel Bruce. Miles Mander. Ralph Forbes and 11. B. Warner, appears in I In* film, which was directed by Alfred Worker. Kenneth Macgowan served as associate producer, and the screen play I was written by Sonya Lesion. Eleanor i Harris. Ernest Pascal and Edwin Blum. > “Tarzan's Revenge. ” starring Glen j Morris and Eleanor [loliu-Jarrelt, is the associ a to at Via ctio n.