AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

“PLAYTHINGS OF DESTINY” TO-NIGHT. A spectacular and thrilling drama is “Playthings of Destiny” at the Princess Theatre with Anita Stewart tonight. Miss Stewart does some of the best work of her career in depicting the emotions of a woman who has no choice hut to believe that the man she loves with all her soul, has tricked her into marriage when be has a legal wife still living. Her flight from his cabin through a raging blizzard, her losing light against the elements and then }nc rescue, provide a series ol tense incidents which hold the large audiences tense in their seats. One such spectacle is enough to put the production in the list of exceptionally staged productions. hut later, a tornado is shown at tlm height of its destructiveness m Jamaica. Persons and objects are whirled about on the screen in the ifrip of the eullossal wind. Hie ckaif,,g away of misunderstandings between Julio and her real husband and lover comes while the tornado is raging when both believe they are hieing’ death. A big supporting series will also bo sirocued including the latest l’athe Gazette and a two-reel Christie Comedy “Pure and Simph .”