CRYSTAL PALACE.
"The Desert Song," at the Crystal Palace Theatre, has .become almost as popular as the stage play of the same name. Some of the exteriors,- notably the French ..military post on the edge of the Moroccan desert, and the . palace of All ben Ali in the sandy, wastes, are fine examples of what can be accomplished in the way. of production. Then the male chorus is one iof the best-trained! ever heard, and John Boles, in the tenor lead, is a distinct success 'both as the mysterious and reckless Bed Shadow and the pathetically- stupid Pierre Birabeau. Boles has sung in opera opposite Geraldine Farrar, and is Certainly the best tenor in pictures, and one of the best actors. Carlotta King is Ma'rgot, the French girl fresh from a convent, who meets with such amazing adventures in Morocco.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 11
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