"BEAU GESTE" COMES TO THE FOOTHILLS

With the Sahara just around the corner in case there is not enough atmosphere in the picture itself, "Beau Geste" presents itself at the University Theatre this week for the approbation of the local moviegoers. As far as we personally are concerned there is atmosphere aplenty in the opus itself. After one has approached the deserted fort across a distinctly realistic movie desert, one is supplied with plenty of local color, French Foreign Legion social ethics, North Beery brutality and much besides which deflea enumeration.

We feel a certain regret that the score specially composed for the presentation of the picture in New York and Boston and played by a full orchestra cannot be adequately reproduced on the University Theatre organ, but at that the instrument in question does very well indeed. Long artistic prologues and involved orchestral movements do not always make a motion picture,--in fact they have been known to break them.

The cast selected for the production does credit to the intelligence of the director, and shows that, overloaded as the motion picture industry is with citrons, a capable man can find a competent set of actors. Noah Beery is quite himself; and Roland Colman will be sure to please those of upper Massachusetts Avenue. As for the rest, Alice Joyce, Neil Hamilton and Ralph Forbes do their utmost by the film, and keep its acting and atmosphere at the high pitch which have already given "Beau Geste" such long runs.