CAPITOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 376, 9 June 1928, Page 14

CAPITOL

“THE COUNT OF TEN” ‘The Count of Ten,” a thrilling; boxing story starring Charles Ray, will be shown to-night at the Capitol Theatre. The story concerns the attempts of a promising young prize-fighter to provide a worthy home and livelihood for his pretty young wife and her lazy father and young brother. The two latter people are the flaw in an otherwise happy home, and when the young brother forges a cheque, requiring the immediate payment of an immense sum of money, and misleads the boxer by intimating that the money is wanted for hospital attendance on his wife, he is compelled to enter into a fight with a broken hand, after having quarrelled with his manager, who was against the fight. Needless to say, the hero loses the fight and gets a terrific punishment. This brings his late manager t.o his side, and he exposes the family. The climax is very gripping and rounds off a thoroughly entertaining picture. “The Spotlight,” starring Esther Ralston In a story of stage life, is the second feature.

Paramount studio officials are enthusiastic over the work of that master of emotion. Emil Jannings, in his new picture, “High Treason.” Jannings was taken from Germany to America and of all the imported stars is the only one who is as big in his new pictures as he seemed in his European productions.