ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 7 October 1940, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “DR KILDARE’S STRANGE CASE.” The screen’s favourite doctor-liero, Dr James Kildare, again holds forth in M.-G.-M.’s latest “Dr Kildare” film, “Dr Kildare’s Strange Case.” With Lew Ayres portraying the title role and Lionel Barrymore as Ills mentor, Dr Leonard Gillespie, the fourth in the series of medical-detec-tive stor.es provides a dramatic glimpse |of . what goes on when a young interne takes matters into his own hands, acting solely cn a hunch. After refusing a wollpaying position in a private sanitorium, Ayres returns to his hospital to learn that his friend, Shepperd Strudwick, has perlormed what appears to have been bungled surgery. Putting facts togother and acting on the theory that the patient might have been insane before the operation was performed, Ayres, by the use oi insulin shock to restore insane people to normalcy, succeeds in vindicating his friend and showing his superiors that his judgment was correct. Based upon tho original story by Max Brand and Willis Goldbeck, tho drama introduces the screen’s first presentation of the actual treatment of insane people by use of insulin to cause shock.- Prominent in the cast of “Dr Kildare’s Strangest Case” are Larainc Day, Shepperd Strudwick, j Samuel S.. Hinds, Emma Dunn, N&i Pon- ; dlcton. Walter Kingsford anti Alma Kruj ger, METEOR THEATRE. “THE DEAD END KIDS ON DRESS PARADE.” “The Dead End Kids on Dress Parade,” a Warner Bros.’ picture starring tho Dead End Kids, shows at the Meteor to-day. in this picture, the famous bunch of screen I toughs do a complete turnabout and become model youths in a modern American military academy. Still the scrap-happy hooligans, however, Leo Gorccy leads the Kids, this time as a city slicker who comes to military school to show tho cadets a thing or two. How G'orcey gets a little discipline by the other Dead Enders, Billy Halop, Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan and Bernard Punsey, forms the basis of this lively film of life in a hoys’ military academy. Those l who have seen tho Kids trade-marked in their previous successes, like “Angels With Dirty Faces” and “Dead End,” will find the new departure a welcome one, for tho talents of these youths, while slightly on the rough side, are none the less appreciated. “The Dead End Kids on Dress Parade,” features in addition to the Dead End Kids. John Litel, Frankie Thomas and Cissie Loftus, famous stage star.