MYSTERY AT MAYFAIR.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 10

MYSTERY AT MAYFAIR.

"DR. KILDARE'S STRANGE CASE." The large crowd that filled the Mayfair Theatre on Saturday night and the close interest with which they followed to its dramatic conclusion "Dr. Kildare's Strange Case," the fourth and most exciting of the series, demonstrated how popular the Kildare medico-detective films are. The clever and likeable Dr. Kildare is ably personated by Lew Ayres. The story, vividly portrayed, provides a graphic insight into the inner woykings of a huge New York hospital, showing the quick decisions involving life and death that have to be made by the doctors in' the surgical department. A- clever friend of Kildare. Dr. Gregory Lane (Shepperd Strudwick) is in dire disgrace facing a ruined career when it appears to the head of the hospital, Dr. S. J. Carew (Walter Kingsford) that he has bungled a brain operation. Kildare, however, on an inspiration, taking the grave risk of using insulin shock, restores the patient, proving that he had been insane before the operation, and thus vindicating his friend. The irascible. cynical, but likeable Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) always comes in with caustic remarks at the right times. There is a charming romance intermingled, in which pretty Nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day) figures, Molly Byrd (Alma Kruger), nurse superintendent, shows that under her brusque exterior she possesses a sympathetic heart. The supports are particularly strong, including the 130-mile trek of the 20th Brigade of the Australian Imperial Force from Ingleburn to Bathurst, community singing, Pete Smith f turette, Passing Parade series, Flying Targets (sports recl) and Screen Snapshots.