ROXY
“THE WAGON MASTER” Wagon freighters were a breed of men whose services in winning the West have received little recognition, according to Ken Maynard, who appears in “The Wagon Master” at the Roxy Theatre, with Edith Roberts opposite him. These men hauled supplies to isolated mining camps and army posts in a day when transportation was a matter of extreme difficulty. The very life of the early western communities depended upon the strength and courage of the men who hauled food supplies through rough and dangerous countries. The wagon freighters were a hard-fighting, tenacious crew that stopped at nothing when it came to getting their wagons through to their destination. The theme of the Roxy’s big talkie is the fight for trade between honest and dishonest wagon organisations. Food prices in the early West were necessarily high. When the wa.gon freight trade got into the hands of an unscrupulous monopoly, the camps served were faced with ruin.
An excellent supporting programme is being presented. *
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 868, 11 January 1930, Page 15
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165ROXY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 868, 11 January 1930, Page 15
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