ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5058, 29 November 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT & TO-MORROW NIGHT. THE VOLGA BOATMAN. The theme deals with the love of a buyable Volga, boatman for a Russian Princess. She hears him sing and falls in love with him. He spurns her, (for he. cajnriot comprehend. The revolution comes, and in an attack on the palace of .the Princess’s father a revolutionist is. killed. Feodor, the boatman, demands the life of the Princess in return for that oS. the dead man. He agrees to kill her, but when he is alone with her he himself powerless to commit the deed. He pre,tends to kill her, and. carries her to an inn, where lie. introduces her as his wife. For this the Prince, commander of the White Army, orders Feodor tio be shot. The princess takes her place by his side, determined to die with him, but before the firing squad can act Feodor is rescued by the revolutionists. Feodor is commanded to fix the punishment o'f the aristocratic captives, and he Orders them to be harnessed like the Volga boatmen and drag the boat. Later Feodor, the princess, and the prince are tried by the Tribunal, and the two former ejre acquitted ..while the prince voluntarily quits Russia an exile. The boatman and Vera find happiness.