STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1942, Page 4

STATE THEATRE

“NO GREATER SIN.” “No Greater Sin,” which will be shown tonight 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, A.mes 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 rook all the .young man's money. Threatening to expose the quack, gart 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.