"Tempest" at the University Theatre is as good as Barrymore Puts Them Out Which is Really Quite Good

Having established himself as the great lover, the successor to Rudolph and the close rival of John Gilbert, John Barrymore takes "Tempest" as his way of showing the movies that he can act. This picture repeats in a general way the tactics of "Beau Brummel". It lets John (we always called him John at school) spend the first half of the picture as a smooth lad, a lieutenant in the Russian army, and the second half as a shaggy, sunk-eyed 'Bolshevist.

He plays both phases of the role in capital fashion, and as such movies go, "Tempest" is far from poor. Camilla Horn does a Russian princess and the unique Louis Wolheim is again on hand to demonstrate where plastic surgery might have been applied.

A most futile comedy accompanies the main picture, and anyone going to "Tempest" will do well to find out the hours at which that picture goes on and go then avoiding the comedy.