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Show "THE UNKNOWN" AT LYRIC WED. AND THURSDAY Lou Tellegen, tho distinguished romantic ro-mantic actor, who scored such a pronounced pro-nounced success in Tho Explorer, will bo seen at the Lyric on Wednesday Wednes-day nnd Thursday, in his second Jes-so Jes-so L. Lasky production, Tho -Unknown, a gripping drama of tho famous fam-ous Foreign Loglon in Algeria. In this photodrama Mr. Tellegen is seen in a chnracter entirely 'different from anything ho has played heretofore, hereto-fore, cither on tho speaking stage or tho screen. Tho Foreign Legion is a military sanctuary whore men who have mot with misfortune or disgrace may redeem re-deem their past by bravery and honorable hon-orable service. No questions aro asked nnd no papors aro required to explain who or what they aro. This organization is stationed in Algeria nnd tho pages of history nbound with montlon.of Its heroic exploits. Volumes Vol-umes have been written about Its ro-manco ro-manco and tradition. Princes in its ranks have rubbed shoulders with murderers; thieves havo fought sldb by sldo with the aristocracy. A man Is taken for what ho Is, not for what ho was. Into this, comes Lou Tellegen Telle-gen as an English no'or do well. Tho Captain of his company is known as "devil Destlnn." A young American girl, whom th& prlvato saved during a brawl In an Algerian danco hall, has taken a great deal of interest in him anil when Destlnn discovers that his attentions at-tentions to tho girl are unwelcome, ho starts persecuting tho private. Persecution follows persecution, until un-til Anally the prlvato is to bo shot for mutiny. His friends effect his .esrapo and with tho girl, disguised ns nn Arab boy, ho flees into tho desert. Thoy aro found by Destlnn. Tho captain sees a victoria cross on tho young man's breast nnd suddonly realizes that ho has been persecuting his own son, from whom ho disappeared disap-peared years before when tho father had been cashiered from tho British army. How tho young man Is freed and returns to England to bo tho head of nn honorable family completes com-pletes this story of thrilling Instances. Instanc-es. Tho production Is of tho usual lavish lav-ish Lasky character, truo to detail and artistic In Us presentation and with Its wonderful photography, makes a photodrama long to bo remembered. re-membered. In tho cast supporting Mr. Tellegen Telle-gen aro Theodoro Roberts, Dorothy Davenport, Hal Clements, Horace B. Carpenter, Tom Forman, Raymond Hntton and other members of tho Lasky all star organization. |
