LOVE AND MEDICINE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22336, 25 February 1938, Page 7

LOVE AND MEDICINE

“Wife, Doctor, and Nurse” at the Mayfair

The talents of three excellent stars, Loretta Young. Warner Baxter, , and Virginia. Bruce are brilliantly blended in “Wife, Doctor, and Nurse,”, the gay and penetrating Twentieth CenturyFox drama, which will open to-day at the Mayfair Theatre. Two modern women who thought they could reason about love, and a man who would not listen to reason, are the central figures of one of the year’s exceptional pictures, a gay, romantic story in the mood of to-day. An important supporting cast includes Jane Darwell, Sidney Blackmer, Mau-, rice Cass, Minna Gombell, and Margaret Irving. The three-cornered drama of “Wife, Doctor, and Nurse” begins when Warner Baxter, a prominent dootor who has time for little outside his work, is attracted by the loveliness of one of his patients, Loretta Ypung, a charming society girl, with whom he falls in love. After the handsome doctor’s marriage, his beautiful nurse, Virginia Bruce, discovers that a strong' attachment has grown between them in the years of their association and which, on her part, has ripened into love. Realising that under such circumstances she cannot continue in her

present capacity, she leaves the doctor’s employ, Baxter is restless and irritated because of her absence. Loretta, noticing the change in her husband, arranges a meeting with Virginia, where they have a heart-to-heart talk over the teacups about the man with whom both are in love. At first Virginia resolves never to see Baxter again, but when left alone she considers the situation in "a different light and returns. Baxter maintains that Virginia is essential to his work but that he loves only his wife. Loretta, however, believes that, although her husband may say he loves her, he is. not being honest with himself. With that thought in mind she plans to go to Reno. The sparkling solution is found in a meeting of the three which results in a- dramatic, yet humorous and entertaining compromise, which paves the way for a happy climax. Because of the importance with which he held the Twentieth Century. Fox production, Darryl F. Zanuck, production chief, selected Walter Lang to direct “Wife, Doctor, and Nurse,” with Raymond Griffith as associate Kathryn Scola, Darrell Ware, and Lamar Trotti combined their talents in writing the screen pfay, which is replete with brilliant 'dialogue, amusing comedy, tense situations, and colourful backgrounds.