RADIO PROGRAMMES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 4

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Today's radio programmes wffl be found on page 17.

STRANGE COINCIDENCE.

"The Drum"—Romance and Reality.

By a strange coincidence, Wednesday's cablegrams, featuring the gallant defence of an isolated outpost, are exactly in key with the spectacular plot of "The Drum," the North-west Indian frontier picture which (in colour) opens at the Plafca Theatre today. Lieutenant Lerwill, to whom his Majesty the King has awarded the Military Cross, is just such another as Captain Carruthers, the hero of the picture, who faces treachery and attack in Tokot. The Tokot of the picture is an imaginary State, but there are real Tokots in North-west India, and the wonderful scenes and landscapes of "The Drum" were in fact photographed through the good offices of the ruler of Chitral. In the cabled itory of Lieutenant Lerwill's defence of the isolated outpost, and in the film story of the fighting in Tokot, reality and romance join forces. The Lerwills and the Carruthers are soldiers of fact and not of fancy, and the fighting scenes in "The Drum" are among the most realistic ever filmed. The story is an original one of contemporary colonial life on the North-west Frontier, and deals with insurgent tribes, ithe dethroning of a boy prince, the attempted massacre of the inmates of the British Residency, and the sacred and mysterious drum of India, which legend says beats out strange messages by itself, but whose riddle Sabu, the little Indian boy, unravels. Throughout the thrilling story of intrigue and battle runs the thread of the little Indian prince's friendship for a Scottish drummer boy who teaches him a "Signature Tune" of his own.