ROXY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1060, 26 August 1930, Page 15

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TWO BRITISH TALKIES In “The Hate Ship,” at the Roxy Theatre, Vernon Wolfe murders Count Boris Ivanoff’s father, and obtains possession of his yacht. Wolfe plans a cruise to which he asks a wealthy young man, Wardell, an impoverished colonel and Ills daughter, Sylvia, tho Countess Olga Karova, and Count Boris himself. Wardell brings a friend of his, Roger Peel, with him as his valet as he fears Wolfe. Wolfe designs to marry Sylvia and also get Wardell’s wealth. Peel meets and falls in love with Sylvia, to whom he discloses his identity. One night Wardell, after having refused Wolfe money, is found shot. The skipper takes charge of the inquiry, and it is found that Count Boris and Olga had arranged an ingenious automatic pistol wired electrically to a piano in order to shoot Wolfe. Finally, Boris shoots Wolfe, Wardell recovers, and Peel finds happiness with Sylvia. A second attraction is being shown in “Harmony Heaven,” an all-colour revue production. Two more brilliant British talkies will be shown on the same programme at the Roxy Theatre next week. They are “Song of Soho” and “Flame of Love,” *coth fascinating melodramas froYn the same studio which produced “The Hate Ship.”