MOTUEKA TO-NIGHT.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15027, 22 March 1919, Page 7

MOTUEKA TO-NIGHT.

■"FLIRTING WITH FATE."

Douglas Fairbanks, in "Flirting Avith Fate,"" a Fine Arts film, in which he portrays "Augy" Halliday, a young artist is long on temperament and short of cash. fle ; wishes to marry a certain young lady* but does not know how to pop the question. For practice he puts it over to another female acquaintance of his, and to his surprise and chagrin is accepted. His real girl overhears the proposal, and cuts him oif in a huff. On getting wise, Doug, is very hard hit, and hires an "assassin" to <rdo" for him. After the terrible task has been assigned to the life-taker—a persistent fellow —the horizon clears, and poor Doug, is happily placed with his girl, but decidedly to the contrary with the assassin. Things then.begin to hum until.a whirlwind finish is reached. The sux> porting items include "Paper Making" and "A Royal Rogue," a screaming Triangle comedy.