"MOROCCO."

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 126, 30 May 1931, Page 6

"MOROCCO."

In settings of distinctive beauty, imaginatively blended into a background that docs full justico to its colourful and unforgettable love story, is "Morocco," a new Paramount lOiil super picture. "Morocco" presented a glorious opportunity for imaginative, far-reaching, dramatic direction. And Josef Yon Sternberg, a rccogulsud master of the director's craft, was more than oqual to tho occasion. In "Morocco" Gary Cooper is seen in a powerful role, a ruthloss adventurer of tho Foreign Lesion. It is a typo of rolo in which Cooper always docs best; n sincere, straightforward characterisation which he evidently understands and enjoys playing. It is a role which Cooper's admlrcra should like tremendously, and which at tho same time should win many new ones to tho Cooper fold. "Morocco" also serves to Introduce a now personality to tho. audible scroen, a discovery of .Yon Sternborg. Sho is Marlene Dietrich, a falr-halred, exotic beauty of tho Borlln stage who, for want of a bettor term, possesses the American "it" to a, remarkable degree. Jliss Dietrich spoaks fluent English, and is a truly distinctive and individual actress. Her type has' seldom, if ever, been soou on the screen and there is every indication that Marleno Dietrich will create an enviable reputation for herself in talking piclures. The third. leading role is played by Adolphe Menjou, as suave, and debonair as ever, making an auspicious return 'to the screen. Others In tho cast include Michael Visarofl1, Francis Mac Donald, Ulrich Haupt, and Albert Couti.