“THE BELOVED ROGUE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 110, 30 July 1927, Page 14

“THE BELOVED ROGUE”

JOHN BARRYMORE’S LATEST More than any other American actor, John Barrymore has given great characters to the stage and screen. Like Stanislavsky, famous Moscow Art Theatre director.

Barrymore believes that truth may be caught at one of its angles if a gifted person woos it with his life, that the essence of great acting is not to act your part at all, but to live it. Conrad felt the same about literature when he wrote, “A laboured piece of writing shows it has not been lab-

oured over enough.” Barrymore has completely thrown himself into each role he has played, beginning with the cashier in Galsworthy’s “Justice,” and going through the gallery of heroes he recreated in “Peter Ibbetson,” “Redemption,” “The Jest,” “Richard III.”, and his last and greatest tribute to the theatre, “Hamlet,” in which he was internationally acclaimed the greatest Hamlet of his age. Believing with St. Martin, “many truths can only be expressed by silence,” Barrymore then brought his art to the screen. In the series of important film parts he has played, there have been Sherlock Holmes, Beau Brummel, Don Juan, Chevalier de Greux, Ahab, Nemesis of the ferocious Moby Dick, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and now Francois Villon, sad, bad, mad, glad beggar-poet of 15th century Paris, and protagonist of “The Beloved Rogue.” Barrymore’s first United Artists picture, which comes to the Majestic Theatre on Friday next/