'MAN POWER’

Evening Star, Issue 19798, 23 February 1928, Page 5

'MAN POWER ’

NEW OCT AG OX FFATUBE. Many thrills and action arc promised in ‘Man Power,’ Ihe now feature which commences screening at the Octagon 'Theatre to-morrow. Richard Dix is the featured player, and ho has the role of Tom Roberts, an ex-officer in the Tank Corps, who is in search of work. Ho obtains a position in the Stoddard Motor "Works, the owner of which has lost most of his capital as the result of experimenting with a new style of tractor. It is a failure, however, and his manager is giving information about his affairs to a rival firm. Tomfalls in love with Alice Stoddard, the daughter of the owner, and secretly commences working on the tractors, and finds the reason of their failure. This is rectified, and Tom decides to drive the tractor along the main street of the town. All goes well till ho is in the vicinity of where Stoddard is attempting to float a Joan from a friend, and the engine fails. The onlookers commence to jeer, and the loan cannot be raised. Torn commences work on it again, however, and by Christinas time

has repaired it. In the meantime there has been heavy rain, and desperate attempts arc being made to prevent the dam from bursting. The workers arc awaiting a supply of. dynamite with which to make a new spillway, but the wagons have become bogged, so Tom decided to haul the wagons up with the tractor, be arrives in the nick of time and the dam is saved. The success of the tractor is then assured, and Tom and Alice find happiness together. In addition to Dix the cast includes Mary Brian, Philip Strange, Charles Rill. Maile.s, George Irving, and Charles Clary.