NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 19

NEW REGENT

“MAN POWER” Richard Dix and Mary Brian, with a cast of players and technical assistants, went into the Sierra Nevada Mountains to make scenes at the Melone Dam for Dix’s new Paramount production “Man Power,” which is now being shown at tho New Regent Theatre. The dam is only a few miles from the deserted village. Tlio scenes made, form the remarkable climax of “Man Power.” In it, Dix drives his tractor up the mountain, hauling five trailers behind him, and loaded with supplies for a crew of men who are desperately trying to save the darn and prevent the destruction of a village in the valley below. Mary Brian appears as Richard’s sweetheart in “Man Power.” Philip Strange is the crooked plant manager. Clarence Badger’s direction insures the picture’s success. Incidentally, Man Power” is his fifth hit in a row. The others were “It,” “The Campus Flirt.’ “Senorita,” and “A Kiss in a Taxi. An excellent act is presented this week by Wallace and Glennett, another very fine J. C. Williamson Celebrity Vaudeville act. This young couple executes some excellent dances, including the Black Bottom and eccentric solo dance by the male partner. Their staircase dance in which they dance up and down a double-sided staircase, is a featude of the act.

Eddie Horton at the organ again gives a splendid programme, his items this w r eek being a selection from “No, No, Nanette,” “Because,” and “Tickling the Ivorfes,’ a Robertson number. Maurice Guttridge and the Operatic Orchestra render their usual high standard of music.