“BEAU GESTE”
Big London Production
MANLY YOUNG ACTORS WANTED The impossibility of obtaining manly young actors for London productions is worrying the stage managers. Basil Dean had the greatest difficulty in casting his lead for “Beau Geste” and eventually selected Laurence Oliver for the part. Writing in the London “Daily Chronicle” of the situation, Mr. Trevor Allen says: “One can sympathise with Basil Dean. He wanted a manly young actor for the part of Beau Geste. Instead of the handsome manly type he encountered ‘nothing but effeminate young men, who have flounced into my office and exclaimed in highpitched, namby-pamby tones, “I want to play Beau Geste.’ ” “Beau Geste” will be a very big production, with an “army” of 50 and 32 speaking parts. The three brothers will be played by Laurence Oliver (“Beau”), Robin Irvine and John Hawkins. Frank Cochrane, the “cobbler” of “Chu Chin Chow,” has a part; Edmund Willard is to play the brutal sergeant; and three of the women In this very masculine play will be Marie Lohr, Madeleine Carroll and Mercia Gregori.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 590, 16 February 1929, Page 24
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177“BEAU GESTE” Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 590, 16 February 1929, Page 24
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