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Opening yesterday to the public for the first time, the Paramount theatre on Washington Street in Boston began its career as the most modern film palace in the city with a showing of "Shanghai Express."
The entire theatre is built with a view of providing the utmost in comfort and artistic arrangement, as well as providing ideal acoustic conditions for talking pictures. The outside is built in the modernistic style with graduated lines and sweeping length of contour, while the inside is furnished in a truly oriental manner, with lavish furnishings and chromium-plated fixtures.
Marlene Dietrich, who was supposed to appear in person at the opening, refused to do so upon being forbidden to land by airplane on the Boston Common.
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