THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1917, Page 6

THE EMPIRE.

DOUG. FAIRBANKS TO-NIGHT IN "THE AMERICANO." The popular Douglas will be featured in the Triangle 'film, "The Americano," showing a/t the Empire to-night. This is a hundred per cent, improvement on Douglas Fairbanks previous best film. He is billed as a young American who goes down t-o Patagonia, a isweeti little South American republic, "a jewel, set in the girdle of the earth," and there lie runs a revolution. Nothing qiuite like him had ever been seen in that tiny land of open-air cafes, guitar serenades, sunshine, and music. He does the most breathless things,' interpolated v.'ith flashes of dry humor, and eventually lands -the president back on his throne of office, meanwhile annexing the pretty daughter. There is a hurry-up fight, where Doug., with bare hands, foeats a collection of moustached fire-eaters with swords, and ho does it solely by the aid of his lightning quickness of action. His scaling of balconies, ipalm trees, rocky precipices, is all in his "very best style, and never once docs the Fftirioankis smile desert his genial features. The play has more plot than any other he has ever ta'kn part 111 and is an original and clever romance. IBillic ißurke also appears in "The 'Fugitive Witness," the eleventh chapter of "Gloria's Romance."