ROXY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 14

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“GUILTY" AND "BLACK WATERS" Romance, drama and thrills vie for supremacy in “Guilty?”—a Columbia all-tallcing drama with Virginia Valli and John Holland in the leading roles, now at the Roxy Theatre. Based on a modern version of the circumstantial evidence theme, this film supplies entertainment of the most absorbing type. The plot is a powerful one. Trouble starts when Judge Lee, internationally famous attorney, railroads Senator Dafiiel Polk to a Federal prison on a trumped-up bribery charge. Ten years later Polk’s daughter, Carolyn, and Bob Lee, son of the judge, meet and fall in love. Polk, released from prison on parole, consents to the marriage for th© sake of Carolyn’s happiness. Judge Lee’s attitude is entirely opposite. Polk, feeling that his very existence is a bar to his daughter’s happiness, decides to commit suicide by taking poison. Because it had been proven that young Bob Lee had been in possession of the poison that caused Polk’s death, he is arrested and tried for the murder. Circumstantial evidence is all against him and he is convicted and sentenced to death. . How he is saved, when in the very shadow of death supplies.the rest of the action for this intensely absorbing story. The second big attraction. “Black Waters,” is a spine-chilling thriller of five oddly assorted people who sought revenge on an unknown friend who had ruined their lives.