AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 118, 5 December 1938, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

“BETWEEN TWO WOMEN’* An original story by Eiricli \on Stroheim, once a distinguished Hollywood director, “Between Two Women” opens at the Do Luxe Theatre on Tuesday, with Era i idiot Tone, Maureen O’Sullivan' and Virginia Bruce. It is a dramatic narrative of life, death and romance in a great metropolitan hospital and it has been produced by Metro-Go Idwyn-Mavor with all of its lavish resources. Tone, as an ambitious young interne, plays an effective role with an artistic depth of understanding. Maureen O’Sullivan is a nurse, unhappily married to a brutal surgeon, and., secretly in love with 'lone. Miss Bruce is a cool and beautiful heiress who comes into the hospital as a patient and goes out as an intended bride of the interne.

The "interne is faced with a choice between love and duty when his own marriage goes on the rocks and he is summoned to operate on the lniMmml of the nurse 1 he really loves, if tlu* man dies they can pick up the threads of life together. If ho fives they are separated for ever. Tone performs a successful amputation and the man lives. M-G-M has produced the picture with artistry and startling authenticity. It might well have been filmed in a hospital rather than on a studio sound stage. The supporting players handle tli-ur roles with uniform ability. Cliff ltdwards is a good reporter; Helen Troy appears a.s a telephone Janet Beecher, stage veteran, is] head nurse; Leonard Penn is n sadistic; surgeon. Others in the east are Charley Grapowin. Grace Ford. June Clayworth, Edward Norris, Anthony Nace and Hugh Marlowe. George Sitz directed.