PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 9 April 1924, Page 10

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

_ Gerald 0. Daffy's fine story, "The Spider and the Hose," is now screening at the Paramount Theatre. It faithfully depicts one of the most interesting periods in the history of America. Gaston Glass aa Don Marcello, the sqn of the Governor (played by Joseph J. Dowling), leads the cast. A romantic drama of the tropics, "South Sea Love," featuring Shirley Mason, is the supporting attraction.' The Paramount Orchestra, in exceptionally fine musical, items, adds to the evening's entertainment. ",THE SILENT COMMAND." "The Silent Command," a William Fox spectacular feature picture, will be screened at the Paramount and Britannia Theatres on Friday. J. Gordon Edwards, the celebrated director^ of ''The Queen of Sheba," and other famous Fox I productions, transferred the story from scenario form to the screen. Not since Edward Evert Hale's remarkable story, " The Man Without a Country," has anything been written that teaches courage and loyalty with such telling force and dramatic power. The keynote is struck in the very opening of the picture—vigorous mental and physical action thai holds the interest from start to finish. When the story begins Captain llichard Decatur, who is living at the executive mansion of the Governor of tho Canal Zone, is being watched by three foreign spies. Valuable plans, drawn by the naval officer, have been put into. a secret safe in the library. The leader of the plotters determines to obtain the plans, and the Governor's mansion^is set on fire and an attempt I is made on his h'fe. . This dramatic introduction is followed by a series of startling and intensely interesting incidents, in which the inner workings of the Secret Service are revealed. There are scenes in the hidden retreat of the spies, a fight for life during a storm at sea' and a ship wreck that leads in realism «nd thrill anything of this-nature ever shown on the screen. The principal members of the cast are Edmund Love. Bela Lugosi, Carl Harbaugh. Martin Faust Gordon M'Edward, Byron Douglas' George Lessey, Alma Tell, Martha Mansfield. Betty Jewel, and Kate Blancke