Stirring Adventure.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18599, 7 September 1932, Page 2

Stirring Adventure.

AT THE ICING’S

“BEAU IDEAL” SEQUEL TO “BEAU GESTE.”

Radio Pictures shows to-nigiht at the King’s Theatre its sequel in sound and talk to the silent classic, “Beau Geste.” This new one is called “Beau Ideal,” after Pereival Wren’s novelised continuation of his first tale of the brave Gestes, and it has been directed by Herbert Brenon, Whose genius produced “Beau Geste.” A handsome, thrilling and intensely vivid pieturisation of the concluding chapters in the story of the Gestes, “Beau Ideal” is fine robust entertainment and certainly as thrilling, if not more so, than “Beau Geste.” Mr Brenon is among tihe first ten great. directors of the screen, and “Beau Ideal” does much to enhance that reputation. It is a stirring picture played enormously and with shrewd, knowing players in its cast. Headed by Ralph Forbes, who created the role of John Geste in “Beau Geste,” the same part he takes in “Beau Ideal,” the cast includes Loretta Young as Isobel Brandon, Irene Rich, Lester Vail, Leni Stengel, Dou Alvarado and others, many