ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 889, 5 February 1930, Page 14

ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

“HURRICANE” SHOWING A powerful all-talking sea-drama, “Hurricane,” will be presented at the Roxy and Crystal Palace Theatres from today. The story opens when “Hurricane” Martin (Hobart Bosworth), bold South Sea mariner, admired by his men for his fearlessness, but feared by them because of his mysterious habit of indulging in maniacal laughter, is battling his way through a terrific storm to one of the remote South Sea islands. Captain Black and his band or pirates are shipwrecked on the island that Hurricane is approaching. They have in their custody several sailors whom they have shanghaied off the coast of the United States. Among them is Dan (played by Johnny Mack Brown), a youth of obvious good breeding. When Captain Black observes Hurricane’s vessel approaching he decides to get his men aboard, cause a mutiny and seize ths cargo. Hurricane agrees to take Captain Black and his crew aboard if they will work their passage. He is not, however, deceived by their apparent friendliness. On the night the pirates set for mutiny, a woman, her daughter and a sailor are rescued from a lifeboat. Through this rescue the secret sorrow that has made a desperate man of Hurricane Martin is revealed. The woman is his former wife, who deserted him to marry another man while he wa,s away on a whaling trip 20 years before. A thirst for revenge has eaten the skipper’s heart ever since. Learning that the woman is dangerously ill and fearing that death will cheat him of his revenge, Hurricane conceives the diabolical idea of striking the mother through Mary, the daughter (played by Leila Ilyams). He will marry the girl to the pirate chief, Captain Black. The story does not end there, however. A full supporting programme of talking and singing featurettes will also be presented today.