MAYFAIR TO-MORROW.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1940, Page 3

MAYFAIR TO-MORROW.

"DR. KILDARE'S STRANGE CASE." "Dad Riidd, M.P.," starring "Dad" and "Dave" is screen ing finally to-day at 1.30 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Mayfair Theatre. Intending patrons are advised to be early. The screen's favourite doctor-hero, Dr. James Kildare, will again hold forth on the screen of the Mayfair Theatre, when M.G.M.'s latest "Dr. Kildare" film, "Dr. Kildnre's Strange Case," starts to-morrow at 2 and 8 p.m. With Lew Ayres portraying the title role and Lionel Barrymorc as his mcntor, Dr. Lconnrd Gillespie. the fourth in the series of mcdical-detective stories provides a dramatic glimp.se of what goes on when a young doctor takes matters into his own hands, acting solely on a hunch. After refusing a paying position in a private sanitarium. Ayres returns to his hospital to learn that his friend, Sheppard Strudwick, has performod what nppears to have been I bungled brain surgery. Putling facts logcther and acfing on ihe theory that tlie patient might. liave been insane before the operation was performed, Ayres, by ihe use of insulin shock to restore insane people to normal, succeeds in vindicating hi.s friend and showffig his superiors that his judgment was correct. Prominent in the cast of "Dr. Kildare's Strange Case" are Laraine Day, Sheppard Strudwick, Samucl S. Hinds, Emma Dunn, Nat Pendleton, Walter Kingsford and Alma Kruger. The Cinesound news screening to-morrow is solely devoted to a 130-mile march by 6500 "members of the A.I.F. over tlie Blue Mountains.