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...receptive natures. The author had to reconcile his to the task of keeping in order some sheep and some natives- a task which included counting, shearing, earmarking, castrating the former ; humoring, doctoring, whipping, burying the latter. This was itself taxing for a young and literary Englishman- a Beau Brummel in khaki pants and red shirt, exiled from home because of ill-health. There were compensating novelties. For instance, on the night of his arrival he lay shivering through the white hours in a disused woodshed while a lion drank from a reservoir outside his door; later, he put down...
...Powys as a Mumbo-Jumbo-Brummel...
...Beau Brummel. John Barrymore does his most telling and versatile work since Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Richard Mansfield's famous vehicle portraying the impudent English dandy of 1800 who would not take an insult from a rotund Prince of Wales who did not look as prepossessing as he. Mr. Barrymore's remarkable virtuosity enables him to look like Adonis at the height of the Beau's career; like Ernest Torrence upon his downfall; like Lon Chancy as the palsied wreck of the once famed gallant. The story really has its climax at the start...
John Barrymore has just completed in California, a celluloid Beau Brummel. Lenore Ulric's return to the screen will be signalized when Tiger Rose is presented to a breathless world at Christmas time...
When John Barrymore returns from Europe he will return to the films as well. The Warner Brothers intend to star him, first in Deburau; then in an adaptation of Clyde Fitch's Beau Brummel...