'THE THREE PASSIONS'

Evening Star, Issue 20314, 24 October 1929, Page 9

'THE THREE PASSIONS'

STRAND'S COMING FEATURE Founded on the novel by Cosmo Hamilton, ‘Three Passions,’ which opens at the Strand Theatre to-morrow afternoon, is the first enterprise of the new British company, St. George’s Productions, Ltd., of which Captain Alastair Mackintosh is the managing director. St. George’s is thought to have made a sensational start in production by capturing Ingram when so many were anxious to have his first story of British life. English scenes in ‘ The Three Passions ’ have as their backgrounds the venerable Baliiol College at Oxford University, the famous Armstrong engineering works at Newcastle, and London in its most fashionable “ West End ” and distressing “ East End ” aspects. Interiors made at Ingram’s studio at Nice include sets representing a huge shipyard, a millionaire’s mansion in Park lane, London, and an ultra-modern restaurant in the British capital, which, it is said, were erected on a scale previously unknown in France. «Money, religion, love are the three passions, which, clashing in the surroundings of modern London, as they have through the ages, provide Ingram with the motif for this latest film. Sayle Gardner, well known on the British stage and screen; Claire Eames, famous as a Shakespearean actress, and who has played Queen Elizabeth on the screen; Andrews Bngleman, the Russian actor who made a name in ‘ Mare Nostrum ,; and Leslie Faber, well known in both London and New York 'threatres, are leading members of the cast.