"ARROWSMITH" AT REGENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 5

"ARROWSMITH" AT REGENT.

RONALD COLMAN'S LATEST FILM.

"Arrowemith," the masterpiece of Sinclair Lewis, the only American novelist ever to win a Nobel Prize, comes as a motion picture to the Regent Iheatre to-morrow in a production by bamuel Goldwyn, with Eonald Colman playing the title role of the crusading young doctor. Helen Hayes, the stage star who recently triumphed in her first screen appearance in "The Sin of Mac elon Claudet," plays opposite Ronald Colman in the role o£ a devoted wife who risks her life for her husband's career. Richard Bennett, the stormy -petrel of the stage and father of Constance, Joan and Barbara Bennett, has a major role as Sondelius, the plague-fighting Swede. A. E. Anson, an eminent figure making his motion picture debut, has another rich character role.

The story of "Arrowsmith" is the story of one man's devotion and ambition in the battle of humanity against the deathdealing plagues which have always been the scourge of mankind. It sweeps from the mid-western countryside to a tropical island in the West Indies, where young Dr. Arrowemitb and his colleagues go to battle against the black death. : His relations with the little nurse he marries at* i struggling country doctor, continuing throughout the picture, weave a broad current of romance through its stirring scenes.