AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

£VERYBODYB PJCTUIREB.

TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY.

'• “DOCTORS’ WIVES.”

f Next to religion, health is the most \ universal topic of conversation.

It concerns both old and young, embraces the latest findings of the race, and includes spiritual as well as physical and mental sicknesses, r Therein lies the wide appeal of “DocItor’ Wives,” Fox drama of misunderstood marriage in the medical profession which comes to the Princess Theatre to-night with Warner Baxter ana Joan Bennett co-fentured. “Never have 1 portrayed a role, Warner Baxter declared, “with more potential appeal to audiences, nor one from which I derived more personal satisfaction. This is due to the uni- ' versality of the subject, and from the S fact that ‘Dr. Judson Penning’ is a character strong enough in ideals and purposes to appeal to everyone.” . The drama of “Doctors’ Wives” is brought about when the most promising young surgeon in New York marries the daughter of a doctor, a girl whom he thought would instinctively understand his desire to devote liis time, energy and talents to the relief of suffering. Instead, suspicions sown in her mind by the mother, and other doctors’ wives soon convert the sweet young bride' into a jealous counterpart of the legions who believe that “the patient is the common enemy of every doctor’s wife.”

Joan! Bennett is said to be .especially appealing, both as the idealistic, dreaming young bride, and the tempb.stuouslycemoitional wife who runs ilheifgamut-'bf' experiences before she learns -that her: husband’s sacrifices for humanity are greater than personal relations between man and wife could

ever be. Frank Borzage directed the picture, which has in its excellent supporting cast Victor Varconi, Helene Millard, Paul Porcasi and Cecilia Loftus. Good supports. Prices 2/6, "1/6, children 6d downstairs.