ROYAL, KINGSLAND
“MAN POWER” Automobiles, airplanes, motor-boats, and even bicycles have furnished the background for motion picture drama, but until Richard Dix began “Man Power” for Paramount, the lumbering caterpillar tractor had never been “glorified” in films. Only an imaginative scenario writer who had been through the war could see possibilities in them. The results will be on view at the Theatre Royal, Kingsland, tonight. “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 Stoddart 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.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 287, 24 February 1928, Page 15
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