FAMOUS ACTOR IN “TEMPEST”
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION STORY Brought from Paris especially to play an important role in John Barrymore's latest picture, “Tempest,” Boris de Fas, a well known Russian screen actor, has found his services in such demand that he plans to remain in America indefinitely. Be Fas has appeared in several European productions, and is known to Aucklanders for his characterisation of the Tartar count in “Michael StrogofC.” His work in this picture, so impressed Barrymore than De Fas was persuaded to appear in “Tempest.” •'Tempest” has as its background the Russian revolution. The . riginal story is laid in the period before, during, and immediately after the upheaval which swept the Czarist regime from power. Barrymore has the role of a Russian peasant subaltern.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 15
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