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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 385, 20 June 1928, Page 15

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“BEAU SABREUR” Intrigue, love and adventures on the vast Sahara Desert offer something spectacular at the Grand Theatre, where “Beau Sabreur” is now being shown. With a cast of sterling quality, unusual direction and more unusual photography, “Beau Sabreur” comes to this city as a companion of even greater magnitude to “Beau Geste.” Both were from the pen of Percival Christopher Wren, whose stories of the desert and the Foreign Legion have proved best sellers everywhere. Gary Cooper plays the role of Major Henri de Beaujolais, the dashing virile young Frenchman who vows he will never look at a woman—and then meets one. Cooper is ideal in the part, and gives a fine performance of the handsome soldier-sheik of the burning sands. Evelyn Brent is the girl, Mary Vanbrugh, who becomes mixed up in a series of thrilling adventures with Cooper. Noah Beery, William Powell, Mitchell Lewis. Roscoe Karns, Joan Standing, Arnold Kent. Frank Reicher. Raoul Paoli and Oscar Smith _are other jjcmbers of the strong east.

The work of making the costumes for the mighty Universal Extravagant; "The Prince of Adventurers.” took over six months and cost 10,000. Two hundred people were employed in the making and over 10,000yds of material were used. Tn all. over 2.000 costurm s were specially designed and made.