Shannon Pictures

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7103, 11 March 1933, Page 3

Shannon Pictures

TO-NIG-HT’S ATTRACTION

In “Arrowsmith,” -which, screens at the Kenown Theatre, Shannon, tonight, Martin Arrowsmith, a young medical student in the Middle West, dreams of devoting himself to scientific research under Max Gottlieb, a great xnedical discoverer, who teaches him. But during his internship, he meets Lcora Tozer, a nurse in his hospital, and marrying her makes it » oossar y j Qr g 0 back, -with her

to her home town in So., Dakota, and become a practicing physician. He chafes under the necessity of dosing farmers for colds and stomach aches, and finally has an opportunity to do some really scientific work in developing a, scrum to cure a cattle disease which is ravaging the country. This discovery brings him an invitation from the McGurlc Institute, a great research foundation in. New York, to join their staff'; Gottlieb is also on the McGurlc. staff, and Arrowsmith and Lcora go to New York. On Gottlieb’s advice lie goes to a small island ■in the West Indies where bubonic

plague (The Black Death) 13 raging, accompanied by Dr. Sondclius, a famous plague-expert, and Leora, who insists on going with him. At the risk of their lives they succeed in demonstrating that the serum is all it was claimed to be; but Sondclius and Leora are killed by the plague, leaving Arrowsmith to go hack alone.