Show I II I Paramount Empress II I New New Yorks York's pleasure seeking I high life liCe society Is vividly portrayed portrayed por por- In tho the screen adaptation of ot Robert Hobert W. W Chambers Chambers' great novel The Fighting Chance which opened a four day engagement engage engage- ment meat at the Paramount Empress theatre yesterday it is a n powerful powerful pow pow- erful drama and can easily be marked market as one of or tho best of ot the year ear The plot relates of ot a Stephen Stophen Siward who is expelled from the an exclusive o New York club accused of or having smuggled led ledan an actress dressed In mens men's clothIng clothIng cloth cloth- Ing into the club Howard Quarrier nor rier a n multimillionaire an officer officer oHI- oHI of ot the tho club and an enemy to Siward Is responsible for tho the charge which Is a a. false one but buthe ho he persuades Lydia Vyse the tho actress actress ac ac- ac tress to keep 1001 the matter quiet Despite this social disgrace SIward Siward SI- SI ward is Invited to the tho house party I of the tho where ho meets and falls fails in love with Sylvia Landis Landis Lan Lan- dis a beautiful young social leader leador lead lead- er or who although she loves SIward Sl SI- SI ward is HO so tempted by Quarrier's and social prestige e that thai I she consents tb become the 11 latter's lat t- t I ter's wife Siward is the victim of a hereditary heredi tar tT tary weakness for alcohol fears a II hereditary character character- r- r th tho disloyalty of several se of ot other her feminine ancestors to their husbands One night Sylvia Sl yields to Siward's embraces and the In- In trl situations situations situations- and powerful love 10 appeal which Chambers ulon known so 50 well how to handle marks Tho The Fighting Chance Chanco a as truly a n great photoplay A Burton Holmes HolmeR travelogue and I the Paramount Magazine round out the new program ram I |