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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 5

"THE COUNTRY DOCTOR." State Theatre on Friday. Darryl F. Zanuck makes movie stars of the first rank of the world's frontpage darlings, as he presents the Dionne Quintuplets in their first fulllength feature, "The Country Doctor," which comes on Friday to the State Theatre. Adapted from an "original story by Charles E. Blake, Chicago newspaper man, "The Country Doctor" finds its drama in the life-and-death conflict that a physician eternally wages in the Canadian wilds in his unselfish work. It is warm with romance, brightly alive with delightful humorous touches, fresh with the antics, the crooning, and the play of the world's most famous babies. Jean Hersholt, beloved character star, is the doctor of the picture, a heroic, selfsacrificing physician who fights pain and illness in a Canadian fur-trading post with inadequate equipment. Because his nephew, Michael Whalen, persists in his love for June Lang, daughter of the post's manager, and because Hersholt himself tactlessly attempts to get a hospital and needed supplies for his people, he incurs the displeasure of | the company powers. Without regard ; for his record or heroism, the post manager ousts him from his position. I He is broken and dispirited when iie gets a call to attend John Qualen's wife and goes to her, never suspecting the phenomenon he is going to witness. In a sequence that is the highspot of the picture for drama and comedy, the five tiny mites are brought to the world, and the doctor begins the fight to keep them alive. As the film nears its close, we witness the fame and rewards that are heaped on the happy doctor as his little charges prosper and grow. And, at the height of his happiness, the post manager relents and gives his consent to the romance of Whalen and Miss Lang. Slim Summerville, Dorothy Peterson, and Robert Barratt, as members of the allstar cast, occupy prominent roles.

The world's largest port, London, now deals with more traffic than any other two British ports combined. In the year just ended,' 15,000 ships arrived from British ports: of these 50 per cent, were British vessels.