PLAZA THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20448, 19 January 1932, Page 5

PLAZA THEATRE.

"THE OUTSIDER." ' The Outsider," at the Plaza Theatre this week, is a British production that has many merits not found in plays written for the films. It has an unusual plot, but in addition that plot is concerned with a real problem—the status of efficient, though unqualified practitioners in medicine and surgery, and the difficulty that arises in the need to decide whether their services should be used when other doctors have failed. In addition to this theme-: —which is capably worked out —there is a love story that is given an unexpected twist. Many of the situations are really dramatic, and there is a steady development from crisis to crisis. The dialogue ,is incisive and at times witty, and is so com-, bined with purely film effects that there is none of the monotony that often results from too-literal adherence to the original stago play, while the settings are well contrived but not obtrusive to the detriment of the story. There are excellent musical effects maintained as a background, and the speech real English, and not Americanage—is pleasing.