PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1927, Page 5

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

_ Perhaps tho most sensational train wreck in the history of motion pictures is tint provided by Cecil B. de Millo in his first personally directed picture production. A firm ? ,'ffl er .1" the screea doctrlno that the end justifies too means, Mr. de Mlllo caused to be built a duplicate of a passenger engine with twelve driving wheels seven feet in diameter and .a length overall of eighty feet. As far as is known, no ponderous engine such as this has ever been made especially for one scene in a photoplay, but the results are said to have fully justifled Mr. do Mille's insistence upon realism despite expense. The story of "The Road to Yesterday," which features Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, Vera Reynolds William Boyd, and Julia Faye, and which will be seen at the Paramount Theatre to-day, is one e>/ unusual dramatic power. Reincarnation is the themo of' the story. For tho train wreck scene, a special track was built and as retakes were impossible Mr. de Mllle stationed a battery of cameramen strategically so that when the spectacular tragedy occurred it was aimed from every angle. Not a worth-while feature of the sequence was eliminated. "The Road to Yesterday" is based upon the play by Beulah Marie Dix and E. G. Sutherland. The latest English gazette will also bo Ecreeued and the Orchestra Paramount, under the direction of Mr Robert Caulton, will render the special musical score to "The Road to Yesterday." ahe box plan is at the theatre. Booking office open from 10 a.m. dally