STORY OF A DIPLOMAT

Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 17

STORY OF A DIPLOMAT

* BRITISH AGENT ’ FOR REGENT In the filming of ‘ British Agent,’ a picture which comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow. First National Productions have brought to the screen a most powerful and dramatic document. They have fittingly headed the large and imposing cast with two of the greatest and most popular stars of the day, Leslie Howard and Kay Francis. There are eighteen other important speaking parts, however, a score of smaller roles, and hundreds of extras take part in scenes of tremendous import. The picture was inspired by the best-selling novel by R. H. Bruce Lockhart, internationally famous author, and portrays his own life during the flaming days of the Russian Revolution. Famous statesmen, diplomats, and war lords who played an important part in shaping world events will be easily recognised in the picture. In this cataclysmic conflict that ripped to shreds the old order of Tsarism and remade history is set a most romantic and unusual love drama. Leslie Howard, acting the part of the author himself, and Kay Francis, in the role of a beautiful aristocratic Russian lady who has dedicated her life to the Red cause, are the lovers whose undying love throbs with poignant intensity. Yet this love does not prevent the fanatical Russian from betraying her lover to the Reds when she suspects him of being a conspirator against the cause. The picture grows in suspense, with thrill piling on thrill. The cast includes Gregory Gayc, J. Carroll Naish, Tenen Holtz, George Pearce, Irving Pichel. Halliwell Hobbes, Doris Lloyd, Paul Porcasi, Walter Byron, lyan Simpson, Arthur Aylesworth, Alphonse Ethier, Marina Schubert, Addison Richards, and Walter Armitage.