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Show "Beau Ccslo;" the sight of hundreds hun-dreds of colorful Tounn-gs sweeping across I he- sand plains, the revolt among the -K Legionnaires, and I lu-ir dauntless defense against tin-desert tin-desert hordes, in addition to count-loss count-loss other pulse leaping moments. There is no need lo uso ords lauding Herbert lircnon's irct ion. -It 11 Coste" beggars any written praise. Spectacular Mystery Beggars Description Add one more t it lo to the list of truly fiiviit inution pirtures, AVith tlio iiiiH'nnnuv of Par.i-iiiuuut's Par.i-iiiuuut's "ie;ui (.!csU'' whii-li n nut's to tilt' St;ir tlu-atix' next Sunihiy. it I it 'it mies neeessitry to enlarge tlio rnll of screen masterpieces. The nuiuifieent lu-oiul sweep of tliis drama of the French Foreign Leiiion has never before heen surpassed, sur-passed, nor lias there ever lieen u finer theme more masterfully executed, ex-ecuted, than that of the devotion of three youn brothers, and their smPinj; , unflinching sacrifice ftr each other. - The pounding, pulsins drama of "loau (iesle' is brought to the audience aud-ience with shocking force in the cpening scenes. A detachment of this Foreign Legion is shown on its way across the African Desert to relieve a fort which has been atacked by A raits. Arriving, the commander of the relieving force finds no sign of Arabs, and his glnss reveals a soldier sol-dier standing at every embrasure in the walls, ready to fire on an enemy. ene-my. A bugle call elicits no response. ! Not a man stirs, and the gates re-j re-j main closed. The major goes close to the walls and discovers the alert sentries to be all dead! This opens a mystery which deepns and quickens as the story progresses, reaching to England and there involving three of the main characters, the brothers, enacted by Konald Colman, Neil Hamilton and Kalph Forbes. Colman, giving the finest and most romantic performance of his brilliant nreer, and Noah Beery as Sergeant Lejcaune, "the crudest beast and bravest soldier" in the Legion, dominate the action although al-though Hamilton and Forbes are close rivals for screen honors. There are a thousand thrills in |