ROAD SHOWS

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, 4 August 1943, Page 3

ROAD SHOWS

"THE DOCTOR AND' THE DEBUTANTE" Showing at- SRaaf'urly, To-night; Millers Flat, Thursday; Lauder, Friday. The "l)r Kildare" 1 series, which in each picture has introduced, a newcomer in the cast, usually thus boosting the player along the* road of screen success, has more than its usual share in "The Doctor and the Debutante", newest adventure of the young doctor and his veteran preceptor. The picture marks the debut of Ann Avars, Hollywood's newest screen beauty, brought from the concert stage and playing the feminine lead in this, her first picture. Cast as a nurse, she was catapulted to the lead after Director Major \V. S. Van Dyke II had watched her first day's work. A new romantic team ijs added in Robert Sterling and Jean Rogers, who play Dr Winthrop, interne, a new character in the series, and his sweetheart, a nurse. Another newcomer is Barry Nelson, former collegje athlete and acting find, who immediately after th,e Kildare picture was given the male lead in "A Yank on /die Burma Road". "BORN TO SING" Showing at Wanaka, Saturday; Tarras, Monday; Middlemarch, Tuesday; [Rajnfurly, Wednesday. "Born To Sing" presents a brilliant group of youthful players in a dramatic musical. Thrills, adventure, comedy and a lavish musical finale figure in the story. The cast includes Ray McDonald who, after successes as a stage dancer in New York scored in "Down in San Diego" and "Babes on Broadway". Virginia Weidler, the screen's youngest character actress, who sings and dances for the second time in her film career, Leo Goreey former "Dead- End Kid" are also in the cast. The musical climax staged in, a deserted hall appropriated as a theatre, presents singing and dancing {specialities by McDbjald. and Virginia Weidler, who has her first "date" on the screen in the picture.