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- Beau Brummel
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- (APRIL 7, 1924)
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- 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 Chaney as the palsied wreck of the once famed
- gallant. The story really has its climax at the start, and its
- romance ebbs and flows uncertainly. But it is held together by
- the power of Barrymore's true impersonation and startling
- make-up. The dawning of a little intelligence in his eyes just
- before the Beau's death is probably as remarkable a sight as was
- ever recorded by the searching camera.
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