STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 6

STATE THEATRE

“MY FAVOURITE WIFE.” “My Favourite Wife” will be finally shown tonight. “NO GREATER SIN.” “No Greater Sin,” which will be shown tomorrow night is Hollywood’s first attempt at a dramatic treatment of a delicate social subject, not in any indelicate manner, but sympathetically, with educational and high entertainment values. Although “No Greater Sin” performs a vital service to society, the primary purpose of the film is entertainment. The scene is a small factory town in America which has had an influx of workers on account of the national defence programme. The town is near a military training camp and the springing-up of night life has brought Leon Ames, a public health official,- to. the community to investigate conditions. Although he meets opposition from the local authorities, Ames manages to set up a clinic to give all factory employees a blood test. In this way a young aircraft worker (George Taggart) learns that his young bride has contracted the dread disease from him despite the fact that he had been pronounced' cured before his marriage by a quack who took all the young man’s money. Threatening to expose the quack, laggart accidentally kills him and the court trial brings out the truth and starts a reform movement which has the entire town behind it. The principal players in the cast are -Leon Ames, Guy Usher, Bodil Rosing, John Gallandel and Luana Waters.