AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’!*, PICTURES.

DOUG FAIRBANKS MONDAY,

Douglas Fairbanks, as a penniless artist, driven to desperate straits, wi'll be seen at, his best in “Flirting With Fate,” a big Fine Arts Triangle play that will be starred by Pollard’s pictures in the Princess Theatre on Monday night. Jewel Carmen is the charming leading lady, and she is wonderful. The plot is unique, and packed with ingenious surprises. Doug finding everything that makes life worth living slipping away from him, hires a professional assassin to “cash him in.” Then, going home, he finds that he has been left a million dollars, and also a letter from his lady love forgiving him. He is, of course anxious to find the assassin to call the bai'gain off, but one of the items of the contract was that Doug was not to know when the execution was to take place, or how it was to be done. , The adventures he has in trying to I dodge the doom that awaits him, and locates the assassin are many and exciting. Some of the athletic stunts the virile star performs in this play are almost miraculous. One jump to the roof of a timber shed from a plank which is tipped by the constable , chasing him must be seen to be thought even possible. The settings are the height ot luxury. The supporting cast is strong and even, and the play on the whole is the btst Fairbanks vehicle yet. “Ace High Loses,” the eleventh chapter of “ A Lass of the Lumberlands,” supports the star feature.