AN INTRIGUING DRAMA

Evening Star, Issue 21745, 13 June 1934, Page 11

AN INTRIGUING DRAMA

• MASTER OF MEN ' FOR OCTAGON ■ The steel industry, basis of many fortunes and about which centres numerous romances of _ modern business, is- the atmosphere in winch ‘ Master of Men,’ starring Jack Holt, is laid. The picture commences at the Octagon on Friday. ■ Ever since the first iron. masters started to consolidate their interests, down through the days of the “ trusts,” and up to the present day of huge combines, steel has furnished more gripping real-life stories of strife and struggle, or fortunes made and lost, than any other, industry. So important lias the steel business and finance become that stock market quotation on steel stocks, and totals of car-loadings, unfilled orders and tonnage reports have become an index to American prosperity. Jack Holt ■will be seen in the picture as a hearth foreman who climbs in the industry until he becomes not only a master of it, but virtual master of Wall street. His pictured rise and Tall parallels the life stm-y of one of the great steel magnates in real life. The remaining principal roles are enacted by Fay Wray as Holt’s resourceful young wife who risks their fortune to. save him from his own greed;' Walter Connolly as the Jovial,-square-shooting Sam Parker, Holt’s

business partner; Theodor von Eltz, the steel magnate’s rival in romance and finance, and Berton Churchill, as Miss Wray’s contriving father. Lambert Hillyer directed.