“THE STOLEN BRIDE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 312, 24 March 1928, Page 16

“THE STOLEN BRIDE”

BILLIE DOVE AND LLOYD HUGHES Billie Dove, with her remarkable screen personality, appears as gorgeously orchid-like as ever in her latest production for First National, “The Stolen Bride.” As is usual in this beautiful star’s* vehicles, the settings and costuming are features that would lift it far above the ordinary. Add to these, however, the attraction of a strong, moving drama, a good supporting cast, headed by the manly Lloyd Hughes, and a general lavishness of production, and it seems that we have a picture in the front rank of the latest offerings of the screen. Miss Dove, marvellously gowned, a feature that will always interest feminine patrons, is cast as a beautiful Hungarian countess, who, in love with a young peasant, is almost sacrificed on the altar of her aristocratic father’s ambition for her. The latter is desirous that Sari should wed Baron von Heimberg, a dissolute nobleman, and the intricacies of the plot are ingeniously executed until Sari is reunited to her lover, preferring true love to wealth and position. The dramatic situations are very strong, and spring a series of surprises, while Lilyan Tasliman in a prominent role adds an exotic note.