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“THE BELOVED ROGUE” Symbolical motion picture settings, reflecting with rare fidelity the sentiment and tempo of the action shown against the various backgrounds, are achieved for the first time in “The Beloved Rogue,” John Barrymore’s first starring vehicle for United Artists, which is now being shown at the Grand Theatre. Credit for what is destined to be acknowledged the greatest piece of art direction on the screen belongs to William Cameron Menzies, art director for the Joseph M. Schenk organisation. His stupendous and entirely original settings in the latest Barrymore classic climax all his previous efforts, in such productions as “Kiki,” “The Thief of Bagdad,” “The Eagle,” “Rosita,” “The Son of the Sheik.” “The Bat.” and other outstanding screen successes. In “The Beloved Rogue,” Menzies has endeavoured to make his settings, depicting Paris in the fifteenth century, actually express the “feeling” of the various sequences. That he has succeeded is apparent in the statement of Alan Crosland, director of the picture, that never before have such animated sets been built for the screen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 124, 16 August 1927, Page 15
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