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for February 1935
9
Gary Cooper, lighting Man
of all Nations!
by James A. Daniels
He has worn the uniforms of a half-dozen nations and twice that manybranches of the various services. He has carried every known form of war weapon from a six-gun to a cavalry lance. He has soldiered in the Sahara, the trenches of France, the mountains of Italy and on the battlefields of our own Civil War. He has fought hand-to-hand, in the air and astride a horse.
That's the unique record of filmdom's best-beloved portrayer of warlike roles — Gary Cooper. Too young to see actual service in the Worjd War, the tall Montana lad nevertheless has earned the screen title of "The Fighting Man of All Nations."
"enlisted"first as an aviator in that never-to-be-forgotten .picture, "Wings." Then came brief periods of service in the French Foreign Legion in "Beau Sabreur"and again in"Morocco." Who can forget him as the American ambulance driver on the Italian front in "A Farewell to Arms"? Then there were the roles of the British Tommy in "Seven Days Leave," the U. S. Marine in'Tf I Had a Million"and the American doughboy in "The Shopworn Angel." More recently he turned time back to don the uniform of an officer of the Confederacy in the Civil War.
Nor is Gary through with uniforms. He has just finished the stellar role in Paramount's "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" and both Gary and the studio believe it is the most colorful characterization of them all. As the heroic young captain in this picked British regiment stationed on the northern boundary of India, Gary alternates between the English Armyservice uniforms and the picturesque Indian dress uniforms worn in honor of the native allies of the British.
But more important than the uniforms he wears is the part he plays. It's the tensely dramatic role of a British officer who goes gayly into danger in order that the honor of the regiment, the Bengal Lancers, may remain unsullied and that a soldier-father may never know that his son betrayed the regiment. Critics who have seen the picture agree that it marks a new high for Cooper and that the picture promises to be to talking pictures "vliat "Beau Geste"was to the silent screen.
Surrounding Cooper in this colorful setting are such excellent actors as Sir Guy Standing, himself an officer in the British Navy in the World War, Richard Cromwell, Franchot Tone, C. Aubrey Smith, Monte Blue and Kathleen Burke. Henry Hathaway directed "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer," a picture which has taken three years to make, and which was partially filmed in India.