'THE THREE PASSIONS'

Evening Star, Issue 20312, 22 October 1929, Page 8

'THE THREE PASSIONS'

GOLD, LOVE, AHD FAITH ‘ The Three Passions,' which comes to the Strand Theatre on Friday, marks an interesting departure on the part of Ilex Ingram, its director. ‘ Three Passions ’ is a story of present-day English life, given, it is said, an ultra-modern presentation. It presents an interesting contrast with earlier Ingram pictures in which the East or the South of Europe provided the background and the story called lor “ costume,’ ’as in ‘ The Garden of Allah,’ or quaint setting as in the case of ‘Mare Nostrum.’ Apart from the prospect of appreciating a director’s versatility, ‘ The Three Passions ’ promises patrons a strong cast, in w-hich Alice Terry and Ivan Petrovitch as co-stars are the chief attraction. Their fellow-artists include Shayle Gardner, a New r Zealander prominent on the British stage and screen; Claire Eames. whose performance in * The Silver Cord,’ written by her husband, Sidney Howard, is still remembered; Leslie Faber, a “ West End favourite in London, who is also well known in New York; and Andrews Engelman, the Russian player who made a hit in ‘ Mare Nostrum.’ ‘ The Three Passions ’ lias scenes at Oxford University, in a big English shipbuilding yard, in London restaurants, and other haunts of her “ bright young people,” and in a mission in the slums of the “ East End.” Many big sets were used at the Ingram studio at Nice in staging the interiors, one representing a strike of 2.000 workmen calling for a reproduction of a gigantic engineering works, which is said to be the finest set ever used in France. Entertaining supports w’ill accompany the film.