‘THE FOREIGN LEGION'

Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 13

‘THE FOREIGN LEGION'

A GALAXY OF STARS ' With two of the most famous male stars in motion pictures, Norman Kerrv and Lewis Stone, and two oi the most attractive girls, Mary Nolan and June Marlowe, teamed _ m ‘ Inc Foreign Legion,’ patrons ot the Empire Theatre will be enabled to sec this cinematic treat, starting to-mor-row. It is a stirring drama ot soldiers and love in the desert. The colourful Algerian desert and (he drawing rooms of London compnso tlie principal locales ol the story, which is promised to be the most colourful and dramatic of all the films directed bv Edward foloman, maker ot ‘His People,’ ‘Alias the Deacon,’ and other dramatic front-rankers. June Marlowe, as the brunette sweetheart, and Mary Nolan, as the blonde heart-wrecker, supply the picture with all .kinds ol romance. Granin rd Kent and Walter Perry have the other important roles. The story was written by I. A. K. Wylie, famous novelist and expert in exotic heart drama, and was published as ‘ Tiie Red Mirage.’ The utmost of care was taken to retain its original ideas, and Charles Kenyon, one of Hollywood's leading scenarists, was engaged bv Universal to adapt and seenariso llio story. Previews of the picture have made the management of this theatre enthusiastic in the certainty that ‘Tlie Foreign I/egion ’ will please all types of audiences.