"WINDS OF CHANCE."

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 7

"WINDS OF CHANCE."

"Winds of Chance," Rex Beach's story of the Alaskan gold rush, pictuiised for First National by Frank Lloyd, creator of "Black Oxen," "The Sea Hawk," and other memorable screen hits, will be the feature offering at the Paramount Theatre on New Year s Day. It deals with the romance of Pierce Phillips, a boy who came to Alaska wholly unprepared for the ligours of the rush, and the Countess Courteau, who had been so close to the business of making a living against odds that romance had been shut from her life. Many unique friendships developed between their friends of the trail—Poleon, the big French Canadian packer; Rouletta, the orphaned daughter of Sam Kirby, the . gambler; Tom and Jerry, everlastingly arguing, but deeply devoted, and Lucky Broad, the shell game operator, who found the Arctic too hot for him. Rex Beacn has painted a brilliant story of the Jait frontier in building his drama, and in picturising it Lloyd has enhanced the adventure by careful attention to details and leading his players through all of the perils and uncertainties that made the days of 1898 teem with thrills and romance. The box plan is now open at the Utility Stationery Shop, next to the theatre.