Several of the injured were reported to have suffered punc ture wounds.

At the ornate Loew's Para dise, a cavernous movie house that was once considered the “showplace of the Bronx,” a brass pipe bomb went off in the orchestra, according to the police.

A second armed bomb was discovered in the theater before it went off, and the police searched the evacuated movie house for more bombs last night, he said.

The blast at the Paradise occured shortly before 9:30 P.M while the audience was watch ing the film “The Liberation of L.B. Jones,” which was be ing shown between 8:30 and 10 P.M. At other times yester day “Ben Hur” was shown.

A police official said that most of the audience in the theater, apparently thinking that the explosion was a fire cracker or something similar, continued watching the film for another 20 minutes and did not leave until the police ordered them to.

He said that the audience ob jected to leaving and that “they were ready to tear the place apart.” But the police succeeded in emptying the theater without incident, he reported.