PARAMOUNT AND ARTCRAFT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 12, 14 July 1922, Page 3

PARAMOUNT AND ARTCRAFT

I Two special features are included in the new programme at the Paramount and Artcraft Theatres, commencing today. "The Law and the Woman, a Paramount super production, starring Betty Compson and William ,T. Carlton, ifi one of the features. The scenes evolve round the love affair of an American millionaire soldier in Paris, with a sequel in New York. A case of suicide is held to be one of murder, and then there is trouble. The innocent man; though held guilty on the day his child is born, has to wait a year before the date of execution is set. Hie wife, who believes in his innocence, plans a final coup to secure her husband's reprieve, and the result is that a woman confesses to the crime. The news is rushed through to Sing Sing prison just in time to prevent the execution, and everything ends happily. In the Ralph Ince production, "A Wide Open Town," Cdnway Tearle heads the cast, and as Billy Clifford, is seen as a "square deal" gambler. Called "Literary Bill," he spends all his spare time writing and studying, but finds time to fall in love with'the Mayor's daughter, who is lured into the gambling den after her lover's reform and held there as a hostage pending a police raid. Clifford learns of the plot, and hurries over to the gambling house to cave his sweetheart, incidentally killing the proprietor. He goes to gaol for this, but love contrives to effect his release, and a marriage follows. Other pictures on the (programme are a scenic, comedy, and a gazette. Special music is played at both theatres.' ' ' '; '