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“THE BELOVED ROGUE” John Barrymore in “The Beloved Rogue,” his first United Artists’ picture, is now to be seen at the Grand Theatre. The film is Barrymore’s first independent _
production for United Artists release, and it represents twice the time the star has devoted to any previous picture. As Francois Villon, the immortal French beggarpoet, Barrymore loves ’em and leaves ’em in fifteenth century Paris; he plays
klnsr John Barrymore ° f Bur eundy, leads his beggai band in routs and jousts, composes undying roundels in hovels while carousing inhabitants of the strange court of miracles jostle each other; he loves and loses Charlotte de Vauxeelles, and wins her at the end Barrymore is Villon, the heart and breaking idol of the underworld of Paris, the crackling personality that inspired the pens of Swinburne and Robert Louis Stevenson. Conrad Veidt, the great German character actor, is King Louis XI., his first role in an American production. Marceline Day is Charlotte. The film was directed by Alan Crosland from Paul Bern’s script based on the life and lpves of the high-living Francois. “The Beloved Rogue” was produced at the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio. Hollywood.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 122, 13 August 1927, Page 16
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