Duty at the Sacrifice Of Love

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 97, 27 April 1938, Page 11

Duty at the Sacrifice Of Love

FRANCHOT TONE “BETWEEN TWO WOMEN”

Kegunt: Now Screening

An original story Erich Von Stroheim, once a distinguished Hollywood director, -Between Two Women” features Franchot Tone, Maureen O’Sullivan and Virginia Bruce.

It is a dramatic narrative of life, death and romance in a great metropolitan hospital and it has been produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with all of its lavish resources.

Tone, as an ambitious young interne, plays an effective role with an artistic depth of understanding, Maureen O’Sullivan is a nurse, unhappily married to a brutal surgeon, and secretly in love with Tone. Miss Bruce is a cool arid beautiful heiress who comes into the hospital as a patient and goes out us an intended bride of the interne. The interne is faced with a choice between love aud duty when his own marriage goes on the rocks and ho is summoned to operate on the husband of the nurse he really loves. If the man dies they can pick up the threads of life together. If he lives they are separated for ever. Tone performs a successful amputation and the man lives. M-G-M ias produced tho picture with artistry and startling authenticity. It might well have been filmed in a hospital rather than on a studio sound stage. Tho supporting players handle’ t “®i f roles with uniform ability. Cliff Lawards is a good reporter; Helen Troy appears as a telephone operator; Janet Beecher, stage veteran, is head nurse; Leonard Penn is a sadistic surgeon. Others in tho cast are Charley Grapewin, Grace Ford, June Glayworth, Erward Norris, Anthony Naee and Hugh Marlowe. George Seitz directed. Walter Wanger announced that under a special arrangement with W arner Bros, he has borrowed William Dieterle. Hollywood’s acc director, to take charge of his latest production, "The River is Blue,” the first of his new season’s productions, which will be put before the cameras shortly. As is well known, Dieterle directed "The Story of Louis Pasteur” and "The Life of Emile Zola.” The stellar roles in "The River is Blue” will be played by Madeleine Carroll and Henry Fonda. The production will be released through United Artists,