REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“PARIS HONEYMOON.” The “Paris Honeymoon” will be finally shown tonight at -the Regent Theatre. “YOUNG DR. KILDARE.” Drama and romance in the life of a struggling junior physician are enter-' tainingly blended in “Young Doctor Kildare,” which opens on Saturday at the Regent Theatre. The characters in all such stories are ready-made for the theatre because there is always the pulse-beat of human emotions in the atmosphere. The atmosphere of life in the walls of a great general hospital is brought to the screen with effective power. This is the inside that is known ■only to the staff surgeons, the nurses, internes, and the police reporters. It is a side with which even the patients never become familiar. Lew Ayres as the eager young Doctor Kildare is human and natural in a role which he plays with artistic restraint. Lynne Carver handles the romantict lead with technique that indicates beyond question her early rise to stardom. Lionel Barrymore, as the grizzled surgeon who knows that bis days are numbered, gives a performance that is entireI ly ’in accord with the tradi- | lion. Jo Ann Sayers, who enacts the tragic role of a rich man’s daughter, weary of life and all that it means, reveals a rare talent with remarkable depth of understanding. The supporting cast is uniformly excellent, with firstrate performances by Nat Pendleton, Samuel S. Hinds, Emma Dunn, Walter Kingsford, and Truman Bradley. The story of “Young Doctor Kildare” presents an ambitious interne in a metropolitan hospital in love with his boyhood sweetheart back home. He wins the interest and friendship of a veteran surgeon, portrayed brilliantly by Barrymore. However, the young doctor encounters difficulty in his profession, first when he protects a fellowinterne who fails to save the life of a prominent politician and again when he disagrees with a superior in the matter of a diagnosis. The grim drama that exists in the emergency ward of a great hospital, the tense lives of those who work there, and the tendei romance of the struggling young interne, mingle effectively in this novel story I of modern life.