Show Beau Geste Is Drama of French Legion Beau Geste the startling Her Her- lert brenon based on on I 1 Percival Christopher Wrens Wren's absorbing story of the h foreIgn foreign for for- for for- forI I eIgn l legion glon begins hegIns a six day engagement en- en itt at the Salt Sail Lake theatre Monday night January 10 dally daily there fter IncredIble as IL ie may seem to those who have have re read d or seen the picture the episode In which dead ead men guar guard th embrasures em- em of a desert frt fort Is taken ken from an n actual happenIng In in- inthe the annals of the foreign legion Major Wren In the the preface of Beau his new story of the legion states I know only It is true and ancl in this he is borne out hy by Edward ha 10 Roche ot of Nea ew York YOrt a a veteran Df f the foreign legion Dead men stand to arms The fallen are spirited a a al ay l A Fr French bayonet through the vitals of the commandant Was Vas he murdered b by one of his own own men These happenings strange and terrible are but a part of the story of three brothers thoe love for each other proved stronger than their fear of death The picture opens in this manner and after the troops coming cOIning to o the assistance of the besieged fort find every man of Its garrison dead they leave camp in a nearby oasis oasis' and decide to occupy the fort fOlt In the morning Before they have encamped encamped en- en camped the evacuated fort goes up In flames Who killed the commandant Who Vho fired the fort and why A thread of this thIs thIs' mystery runs entirely entirely en- en through the play which flashes flashes' back to rItten years ears before the opening scene and reconstructs the mystery back again to that scene Herbert Brenon so cleverly has the mystery throughout t the story it Is a safe venture to sa say not one of the audience has guessed the solution before It is revealed at atthe the tho end I |