WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 3

WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

KAY FRANCIS IN "THE WHITE "AGEL." \Thut U heralded as ons oi the 'outstanding productions of the screen, "The White Angel." a Fir-st National picture portraying the life story of Florenee Nigbtingale, will be screened at the Waipukurau Theatre to-ni'ght and Saturday at 8 p-m. with, speeial raatinee on Saturday at 2.30 p.m. No woman's work has ever meant inore to liumanity than that of Florenee Nigbtingale, Ihe gentle-bred Englisli girl who raised nursing frqm a most menial task to a profession of diguitv • aiul stauding. From her work in tho Criincan War grew tlie great ,Ecd Cross of to-day. She estttbUshed' the first training "sehool for nurses in England. Sho fought with prcjudice, ignoraiu-e, aputhy auj antagonism, and conqueted thom all. She made the nurse "right arai" of the' physician; slie made nursing an integral part of the practice of medicine. Kay Francis is alwaj's a finished actress, but never has she been more splendid than in the role of Florenee Nigbtingale. She gives to tho cliaracfPr ihe fire of enthusiasm that makes it live and brealhe on the sereen. The two umle lcads are handled by accomplished actors, one an Engbshnian, Tan Hunter, noted both on the London stage and in American films, and the otlior an American, Donald Woods, i ktiowo to c\ ery lmrr oi' ihe dr«ma: in Ji tlie uountry.- s ,