'THE FOREIGN LEGION’

Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 6

'THE FOREIGN LEGION’

COMING TO EMPIRE THEATRE The'Empire management has been fortunate in securing ‘The Foreign Legion,’ one of the most spectacular pictures of the year, lor a short season. The initial screening will take place on Friday next. The novel was a gripping setory of love and duty, set against the chromatic background of the French Foreign Legion in Algiers. Ihe pietuic is said to excel the book in the colourful presentation of the lives and adventures, the passions and the impulses of these iron soldiers and the steely discipline under which they live. Norman Kerry and Lewis Stone are co-starred in the picture. _ Both are favourites and both are said to have exceptional roles in this picture. Opposite them are two popular women, Mary Nolan and June Marlowe, one the exotic heartbreaker, the other the adorable sweet heart type.

The story com rns a British society man and army officer, who becomes infatuated with an unscrupulous woman, a blonde of indescribable beauty. Her kisses spell disaster. His fate is to be cashiered from the army and to drop out of sight. He turns up in the French Foreign Legion as a private under the command of his own father, who had similarly dropped out of sight before him. The dangerous blonde turns up in Algiers; with her is- the hero’s real sweetheart, her sister. How father ajid son, their identities unknown to one another, lock horns over the adventuress, the unusual military results that ensue, and the final working out of the romance make one of the most gripping life-dramas ever screened. Stone plays the father, Kerry the son, Mary Nolan is the adventuress, and Miss Marlowe the younger girl. Oraufnrd Kent is also seen to advantge in a principal role. Edward Sloman directed the picture.