PARAMOUNT THEATRE.
The new programme introduced at the Paramount Theatre"included a stirring and well designed drama, "The Dummy," in which a new picture star, Jack Pickford, is rapidly finding a large crowd of admirers. "The Dummy" is a youth who, by pretending to be deaf and dumb, gives valuable assistance to a detective in hunting down and capturing a party of criminals who have kidnapped a little girl. The lad performs this service by allowing himself to be kidnapped, and this unusual method of tracking 'thieves -by having a detective outside the gang and an agent within its sphere of operations naturally creates some interesting and exciting moments. The picture is capitally produced and acted. A number of other pictures, including some very good scenes in the Andes, a bunch of cartoons very amusing and'clever in execution, and a ludicrous comedy, support the main item and complete an entertaining programme, which was well received by large audiences. The same programme will be shown till Friday night.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 48, 20 August 1917, Page 3
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