NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 231, 19 December 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“MAN POWER”

“Man Power,” now being shown at the New R.egent, is a film for people

of all ages who like action. “Man Power” is no parlour picture; it opens with Dix unshaven and untidy in a railway truck, but he gets on to his feet in the first reel. The action hits a fast pace when he begins showing up the machinations of a crooked manager of a tractor factory; it keeps right on going when it is apparent he intends to win the daughter of the company’s president, and it hits the heights of melodramatic thrills when he drives a huge tractor through driving rain up a mountain to save a dam which is in danger of being washed out.

“Man Power” is not a war picture, although there is a flash of the battlefront to indicate that Richard Dix had been an officer before reaching the lowly state of a wanderer hopefully looking for a job. Glimpses of Mary Brian, beautiful daughter of the president of the Stoddard Manufacturing Company, starts him on a career as a mechanic. What he does with a tractor after that is startling. To save the inhabitants of a valley from the menace of a broken dam, Dix pulls supplies through a rain storm over a slippery road, over ditches, up mountain sides, across a plateau and into a gulch. An outstanding feature of the programme this week is an excellent film o£ local interest, entitled, “The Komuntic North Shore.” The picture is being screneed by special arrangement with the Shore Expansion League. Every child attending the Regent this week will receive a ticket entitling him to a full return trip on tlio ferry to the North Shore on Wednesday.

Wallace and Sennett in a first-class novelty dancing act are meeting with well-merited applause at everp performance, their unique staircase dance being a feature of their act. Eddie Horton at the organ and Maurice Guttridge and the Operatic Orchestra render and excellent musical programme.