PARAMOUNT THEATRE.
Janet Gaynor, Nancy Drexell, Charles Morton, Barry Norton, and J. Parroll M'Donald are the featured players In "Four Devils," which Is now In its second week at the Paramount Theatre. The film, a drama of the circus and us attendant Joys and sorrows, tells of two brothers and two sisters who are being trained by a. circus proprietor, and whose lot Is anything but happy. -Charles, the leader of the troupe, and Marion, the star acrobat, fall in love with each other, but a wealthy siren lures Charles: away from Marion and makes him a complete victim to her charms. He neglects his work, and through being out of practice nearly meets with disaster in his famous "death leap." Just in time he realises his folly. However, on the final night she sits in a box at the circus and endeavours to catch Charles's eye prior to the big leap. Instead she catches the eye of Marion, who, thinking she will again lose her lover, loses her nerve and falls to the ground A repentant; Charles helps to nurse her back to health and happiness. Other pictures on the programme' are the latest Fox Mqlvetone. News, talks by Mussolini and the American Ambassador to Italy, some novel numbers by Winnie Lightner; the American comedienne, and "The First Lesson," a humorous talking comedy.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 127, 3 June 1929, Page 5
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224PARAMOUNT THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 127, 3 June 1929, Page 5
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