PRINCE EDWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 15

PRINCE EDWARD

“WOMAN POWER” Jack Dempsey’s training quarters at Pine Hills Lodge, in the high sierras of Southern California, not far from San Diego, was the locale for some of the action in “Woman Power,” Fox Films production, directed by Harry Beaumont, which is the feature on the Prince Edward Theatre screen. Woman’s influence on man for good or evil, as the case may be, is the theme of “Woman Power,” based on the story by Harold MacGrath, “You Can’t Always Tell.” In the play it is Ralph Graves’s life that is influenced by woman power, as characterised by Margaret Livingston as the “menace,” and Kathryn Perry for the uplift element. During one of his frequent visits to Margaret’s dressing-room in an exotic supper club, where she is the premiere dancer, Ralph is given a good drubbing by Lou Tellegen, sophisticated admirer of the dancer. The humiliation of Graves reacts to spur him on to a course in physical training, in the art of self-defence. It is the activity pivoting about this sequence that takes the players to Pine Hills Lodge, paving the way to some of the most entertaining scenes, shot through with comedy.