REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

“CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY.”

The current programme at the Regent Theatre headed by “The Confessions of a Nazi Spy,” will be finally shown tonight. “FOUR GIRLS IN WHITE.” “Four Girls in White,” which will be shown at the State Theatre tonight pays a tribute to the great profession of nursing. Featuring a cast of five principals, comprising Florence Rice, Una Merkel, Ann Rutherford, Mary Howard and Alan Marshal, with. Kent Taylor, Buddy Ebsen, and Jessie Ralph in support, the picture .comes as a companion piece to the notable “Men in White” of several years ago, and the more recent “Young Dr. Kildare. “Four Girls in White” is the story of four girls who enter' upon nursing with different purposes. It treats mainly with Norma Page, played by Florence Rice, whose real purpose in embracing the noble calling is to win a rich doctor or patient for a husband. Unscrupulously she schemes to gain her end. When Dr. Stephen Melford, .played by Alan Marshal, seems more interested in his work as a career than for money Norma discards him and turns her attention to Robert Maitland, a rich playboy, played by Kent Taylor. Her scheming results in the death of a fellow nurse at the hands of an insane patient, and when she returns to the hospital from a yachting trip she finds herself shunned by fellow nurses. 'Before she can resign the dreaded “disaster call” comes in. Norma joins the other nurses and risks her life to return a heroine, with the respect of the girls and the love of Dr. Melford as a reward.