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Show Famous Sea Saga at Mario One hundred and sixty-seven days of adventure on the high seas, days that roused a nation to a fever pitch of excitement, are compressed into an hour and a half of thrilling screen entertainment enter-tainment in Paramount's ptetur-ization ptetur-ization of Richard Henry Dana's memorable classic of the sea, "Twio Years Before the Mast." The film, the first motion picture pic-ture adaptation of Dana's novel, is now playing at the Mario theater the-ater with Alan Ladd, Brian Don-levy, Don-levy, William Bendix and Barry Fitzgerald. All the fury and suspense of Dana's scathing denunciation of the slave-like treatment of the early American merchant mariner mar-iner has been captured and enhanced en-hanced by the scope of the motion mo-tion picture camera. His grimly fascinating tale of the voyage of the devil-ship, "Pilgrim," from Boston, around Cape Horn, to California, is brought to vivid life on the screen. It was of this voyage that author-seaman Dana wrote, and his novel, when published, brought a demand from the American people for congressional congres-sional action to ease the lot of the country's seamen. The film tells of the inhuman treatment meted out to the crew by a conscienceless con-scienceless captain, obsessed only with the thought of setting a new time record for the run. It describes with potent dramatic dramat-ic force the mutiny of the men, and their courageous decision to stand trial, and bare the facts of their brutal existence. |