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Show "CAPTAIN I1LOOD" AND HIS PI RATES A T WADSWORTH Rafael Sabatini's famous and colorful story of romance and adventure, ad-venture, "Captain Blood," which Cosmopolitan Productions has filmed on a gigantic scale, comes to the Wadsworth Theatre Thursday, Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday as a First National release. This thrilling tale of seventeenth seventeen-th century sea pirates is said to be one of the nrst elaborate and pretentious productions in screen history. Tremendous -settings were designed by master builders. These include great sailing vessels ves-sels of the period, massive in size and full-batteried, which had to be specially built, complete in every detail; parts of a village in England; most of the old city of Port Royal, in the West Indies", 'destroyed by earthquake; Ki,ng James James IPs palace; a governor's gover-nor's mansion; and costumes to suit everyone from King to slave. Playing the title role of "Captain "Cap-tain Blood" is Errol (Flynn, a handsome and dashing young Irishman, who was recruited from the London stage. The feminine lead is played by Olivia de Havil-land. Havil-land. the beautiful young girl who was skyrocketed to fame when chosen f'ir.a leading role in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." |