PRIZE "VILLAINS" UNITED IN "PRINCE AND PAUPER"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 10

PRIZE "VILLAINS" UNITED IN "PRINCE AND PAUPER"

Two of the. professionally meanest men in Hollywood — Clauae itains and Barton Maclane — combine their talents fcr skullduggery and doub'e dealing for the first time in "The Prince anci tho Pauper," now being filmed at the Warner Bros^ First National studioa m Hollywood. . Eains, a "meanie" of long standing on stage and screen, is taking up right where he left off in "Anthony Adverso," inaking things tough for little Billy Mauch, who play ed the role ot the young Anthony in tliat picture. He again makes life miserable i'or the vtry samo youngstcr in this Mai'k Twain classic. Ho lia& the jol© of the «chtm ing, scoundrel]yr Earl of llcrti'oi'd, who, according to ihe story, attempied to Beize ccaitrol of England at the death of Henry VIII. by usurping the post as regent to tfie youthful kiug. ln the tnix-up between the young prince and pauper when tlie'y exchange clothes for a la'rk, Billy Mauch comes undor liis sinister sway as the imposter, while 1ns twin brothor, Bobby, who is the real prince in , the picture, narrowly escapes murder at the hands of Itain's hirelings. Maclane' s villainy is Jict of such long standing as * that of the veteran Hains, but he makes up for lack of experience in downright cussedness that elevates his depravity to the same high level as his fellow player's, In "The Prince and the Pauper" Maclane is cast as John Canty, thief, heggar, murderer and brutal bully of the shuns. He plays the role with a gusto that is sure to earn him well-deserved hisses when the picture is finally released. As the father of little To'm C*.nty, Maclane beats and' mistreats' Billy Mauch * an'd later makes tKiifgs tough for Babhy when the ' prince, in the pauper boy'S clothee, is 'cast "but bf the" palace' and mistaken- by Maclane for his own son. With b6 rn^ch^Tillaipy, th^ri m'ust,"of course,' bh hnuheroic atenger,' aniT-Mark. Twain provided 'him "in " the pefson''"of

swashbuckling Miles Hendon, soldier of , t'ortune, a role which fits Errol Flynn lilte a glove. When he enlists on the side of the outcast and his keen sword starts fiashing vengeance, the yillains and persecutors of the youngsters start falling ' like '■ leaves in:' a windsto'rm. "It "'is' a" gtahd story— onev beloved by milions, anli the late" Laitd'Doyle huilt a- l^stirigymbnuinent"' to' his 5 hrilliant jthemory 'with 'the" screen " play 'he'' coxix- ! pleted * for . tliis 'pictiire shortly before : his; trfi'gic* deatli".'* ' * ' ' . • ' " ' "Williaih Keighley" is • direetifig under the'. sfipervisibn f of ' Itobert • Lord.,' * . .. , . i -i v. * ** > ... .,i