AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

*VERYBODYS PICTURES.

“ FOOLS FOR LUCK ”

-TO-NIGHT,

-Police to the -right of him, prison bars to the left of him, danger behind

.him -and trouble before. So W. C. ■Fields shoots his way out in the Paramount picture'“Fools for Luck,”, which comes to the Princess Theatre tonight. There are no jobs for / the

undertaker in this rollicking W. C.' ■Fields-Clioster Conklin teapi comedy, however.. For Fields uses a pool cue instead of a gun. He arrives in Huntervillo in a borrowed automobile with two cubes of pool chalk in his pockety The driver of the. car eats Ifour shillings’ worth of food and hands the checks to Fields. A policeman loiters outside the door, picking his teeth, and the situation looks desperate, j Then Fields has an inspiration. He challenges Chester Conklin, proprietor of the restaurant, to a game of pool tfor the meal check, double or nothing at stake. And Conklin turns out to be pool champion of the town! A fascinating loye theme, story adds heart interest to the thrills and laughs provided by the escapades of the slick promoter in this hilarious comedy of . small-town liife, a comedy in which there is absolutely no distortion of characters but a wealth of richly .humorous situations woven into a strong and highly interesting story. Fields takes the part of the promoter who keeps himself out of the poor house by his wits and out df jail by the same method. 'Conklin is the substantial citizen of the small town whose chief interests are bis wife, his beautiful daughter and bis pool championship. Sally Blane, the beautiful girl, who took the ifeminine lead in the Wallace dleery-Raymond Hatton c medy, “Wife Savers,” lias the role of Conklin’s daughter, belle of the town. Jack <Ludc?n plays the juvenile male lead and there is a strong supporting cast, including Arthur Housman, Mary Alden, Martha Mattox, Robert Dudley, and Eugene Pallette.

A topical, scenic, and comedy will complete the display to-night. . iOii Wednesday the ever-popular Milfoil '-’ills will he seen in Jack London’s groat story “Burning Daylight.”