The Devil's in Love

he Devil's in Love (Fox). If the French Government were as particular about such matters as Mussolini-who suggested to Paramount that A Farewell to Arms avoid showing the Italian Army in a rout--Hollywood would be compelled to take a different attitude toward the Foreign Legion. In the cinema this organization is shown to be a compromise between a sanatorium and a Wild West show. Its members when they are not busy forgetting unpleasant pasts are busy forgetting their duties as soldiers while they murder one another and misbehave with ladies.

The Devil's in Love is a typical Foreign Legion picture, about a medical officer (Victor Jory) who, unjustly convicted of poisoning his major, escapes to a seaside town. After having a liaison with a handsome cabaret hostess (Vivienne Osborne), he meets and falls in love with the fiancee (Loretta Young) of his friend Captain Jean Fabien (David Manners). Bullets and fever, as is usually the case in French North Africa, presently improve the situation. A sick orderly confesses to killing the major, whom no one liked anyway. Fabien gets a bullet and a splendid funeral, at which his fiancee and the surgeon are outstanding mourners.

All this is quite as spurious as it sounds but, hobbling atmospherically along with that artfully erratic pace which Director William Dieterle uses to give his adventure stories glamour, it makes acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Victor Jory --an able, sharp-faced young actor who has become a featured player after his first five pictures--gloomily apologizing to Loretta Young for kissing her.

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