Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1927-02-11
"Bsaa Geste" coming To Tie
National.
Beau Geste" Should Prove Rallyins Call
To Theatre Lovers.


The announcement that Adolph Zukor
and Jesse Lasky are shortly to present
Major Percival C. Wren's great mystery
melodrama of the French Foreign Legion.
Beau Geste." at the National Theatre.
Washington, D. c.. for limited engage
ment, beginning Sunday night. February
18th, and continuing twice daily thereafter
at 2;30 and $50 O'Clock, should prove a
magic call for the rallying lovers of real
drama in the theatre. No photoplay has
attracted more attention or proved more
popular in past history than Beau Geste. p"
The directorial reins as handled by Her
bert Brenon are without a parallel in the
history of motion pictures. All sorts of
hardships were suffered by director. stars
and extras alike, in the glare Of the merci-
less sun, at Zulanon Ga name coined from
the words Zuker. Lasky and Brenon), so
miles from civilization on the Arizona
desert, to obtain the necessary sequences.
The Messrs. Zukor and Lasky have made
their escutcheon stand for genuine merit
behind the curtain line. It is indeed
rare combination.
Beau Geste" is now rounding out its
seventh month at the Criterion Theatre on
Broadway in New York City. and is now
in its twentieth week in Philadelphia and
Boston. with no signs of abatement in the
interest. However. due to the influx Of
great many motion pictures of the larger
and better type, and the public's ever in
creasing demand for this kind of enter
tainment, it was decided to place this
special company on a tour Of the principal
cities, the Pittsburgh engagement being
the first west of the Atlantic seaboard.
In assembling this special company the
Messrs. Zukor and Lasky have not been
content with presenting a film that has
been adapted from a book that has so
far exceeded all best sellers in its guam
tity of sales, there is no question as to the
number reaching the half billion mark. but
they are also sending on tour musicians
who are familiar with the difficult score.
arranged by the deft hand Of Hugo Reisen-
field The latest in projection equipment
is also carried to assure a perfect projec-
tion, the one essential thing needed for
the complete fulfllment of pleasant
evening in the theatre.
In Beau Geste" sex romance is sub
servient to the affection of three brothers
for each other. willing to cut away from
loves, family. careers. all TO protect the
the name of the other, suspected in con-
nection with the mysterious disappear
ance of the blue Water" famous sap
phire. and an heirloom in an aristocratic
English family. An old Arabian proverb
/ reading: The love of man for a woman
may wax and wan with the moon. but the
love of brother for brother is as stead
fast as the stars. best expounds the theme
of this enthralling tale.
Director Brenon achieved life long
ambition is being given carte blanch per-
mission to 60 ahead and cast Beau Geste
as suited his needs and fancy. To say
that he did il well is to put II mildly as
only the playgoer can better judge after
seeing the picture. Ronald Colman was
borrowed. through the courtesy of Samuel
Goldwyn and appears as Michael Beau
Geste,' while Neil Hamilton and Ralph
Forbes are cast as the other two brothers,
Digby and John. Alice Joyce as Lady
Brandon and Mary Brian as Isobel plays
the important female leads. While others
in Importance in the supporting company
are as follows Noah Beery as Sergeant
LeJaune." Norman Trevor we'll known
stage star as "Major de Beaujoais." VIM.
Powell as "Boldini" and Victor Laglen
and Donald Stuart as Hank and Buddy"
two Americans who join the French Foreign
Legion together with the Geste brothers
to have the greatest experience Of their
lives.