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Show Tropic Romance, Adventure Theme of Carroll Film! Love in the balmy, alluring tropics where men fight boldly for wealth is ! the thehme oi the exciting melodrama which brings Nancy Carroll forward as Paramount's new star. The picture ! is "Dangerous Paradise" and it will j show, lal-talking, at the Victory thea-' thea-' tre for two days, starting Wednesday 1 next. Richard Arlen is the popular leading man. Characters which have been vivid personalities for readers of Joseph . Conrad's novels will live and act and talk from the screen in "Dangerous Paradise." The drama was adapted from incidents in the Conrad story by William Slavens McNutt, well-known Saturday Evening Post writer, and Grover Jones, veteran screen writer. William Wei lman, director of "Wings," made the picture. Nancy Carroll has an especially nhle sunnorting cast for her first starring role in which she is seen as a girl musician in a South Sea hotel, a rendezvous for unsavory characters from the underworlds of all the great cities of the earth. Menaced by her ruthless employer, she seeks safety on a tiny island where Richard Arlen, an embittered recluse, is living and working, work-ing, alone. Friendship turns into hate, when Nancy resents Arlen's suspicious sus-picious coldness. However, when three desperadoes trail Nancy to the island and menace Arlen's life, her love is revealed in one great, dramatic scene. "Dangerous Paradise" is an unusual picture in many ways. It is one of the first all-talking pictures to be filmed largely at sea, and its swiftly moving climatic action is thrilling and logical. Warner Oland, remembered for his masterly characterization in "The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu," has an important role, and Gustav von Seyffertitz, Francis McDonald and George Kotsonaros portray a trio of villains it would be difficult to match anywhere. A master of dynamic action, ac-tion, Wellman maintained a speed in action and filming which keeps the suspense mounting in tremendous crescendo until the final episode. |