STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1942, Page 6

STATE THEATRE

“NO GREATER SIN. - ’ “No Greater Sin,” which will be shown tonight is Hollywood’s first attempt at a dramatic treatment oi 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. Altnougn | 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 mans money. Threatening to expose the quack, lag part accidentally kills mm and the court trial brings out the U’uth and 1 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.