ENTERTAINMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1942, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE—To-night: “Doctors Don’t Tell.” A new and tensely dramatic cinematic interpretation of the Hippocratic Oath is scheduled to please audiences when “Doctors Don’t Tell” is screened at the Opera House tonight only. Heading the stellar cast are John Beal and Florence Rice. The story deals with the problems and temptations which are placed before young medical men beginning their careers. Ralph Sawyer (played by John Beal) and Frank Blake (played by Edward Norris), two warm friends throughout their medical training, take separate paths when one of them, Blake, becomes involved with gangsters. Having given surgical treatment to one of Gangster Joe’s henchmen, Blake is thereafter the vassal of Grant, who forces him to continue as his physician under the threat of causing him to lose his license. Sawyer, on the other hand, reluctantly severs his partnership with Blake and becomes a Medical Examiner in the District Attorney’s office. REGENT THEATRE—To-night: “H. M. Pulham, Esq.” It is based on J. P. Marquand’s best-selling novel, and has proved front-rank screen entertainment. It recounts the life of Pulham, young Bostonian, who after Harvard and the World War, plunges into business activity in a New York advertising agency and meets the love of his life in an ambitious “career girl.” He returns to his home town to marry the girl of the family’ choice, and 20 years' later finds that when the opportunity comes he cannot recapture the romance of his youth. Hedy Lamarr gives a crisp, incisive portrayal of Marvin Myles, the straightforward young business woman; Young is excellent in the title role first as a college boy and finally as. a settled business man of middu age: Ruth Hussey is effective as the woman he marries.