AT THE MAYFAIR TO-DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 9

AT THE MAYFAIR TO-DAY.

"DR. KILDARE'S STR.ANGE CASE."

The screen's favourite doctor-hero, Dr. Kildare, will be at. the Mayfair Theatre, New Plymouth, to-day at 2 and 8 p.m. in the fourth of the series, "Dr. Kildare's Strange Case." With Lew Ayres portraying the title role and Lionel Barrymore as his mentor, Dr. Leonard Giilespie, the fourth in the series of medicaldetective stories provides a dramatic glimpse 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 hospltal to learn that his friend, Sheppard Strudwick, has performed what appears to have been bungled brain surgery. Putting facts together and acting on the theory that, the patient might have been insane before the operation was performed. Ayres, by the use of insulin shock to restore insane people to normal, succeeds in vindicating his friend and showing his superiors that his judgment, was correct. Prominent in the cast of "Dr. Kildare's Strange Case" are Laraine Day. Sheppard Strudwick, Samuel S. Hinds, Emma Dunn, Nat Pendleton, Walter Kingsford and Alma Kruger. The Cinesound news screening to-day is solely devoted to a 130-mile march by 6500 members of the A.I.F. over the Blue Mountains. Other featurettes mclude a Pete Smith oddity, "Social Sea Lions," Screen Snapshots, Community j Singing, "Flying Targets" sportsreel, and "Trifles of Importance," the latest Passing Parade series.