OCTAGON THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25394, 27 November 1943, Page 7

OCTAGON THEATRE

AN OUTSTANDING COMEDY When a man marries his doctor because he likes her bedside manner, he has no right to be jealous if her practice consists chiefly of attending to handsome, and susceptible, young men. That generally speaking, is the subject matter of Columbia’s hilarious comedy, “You Belong to Me,” which stars Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in the new programme released at the Octagon Theatre yesterday. Fonda is seen as the playboy who marries a doctor, firm in the intention of allowirfg her to continue her practice of medicine. But, when he discovers half the town is in love with his bride, he quite understandably becomes a bit jealous. He fights with her patients, lie fights with his bride, he even fights—andvwins—with himself. As the doctor. Miss Stanwyck is equally superb in a role which calls for both seriousness of purpose and gaiety of expression. Lesser roles are played by Edgar Buchanan, as a philosophic gardener; Roger Clark as Fonda’s major rival and Miss Stanwyck’s most handsome patient; Ruth Donnelly, as her aide, and Melville Cooper, as a butler who finds himself a bit disconcerted by the marital tangle. The box plans are at the theatre and at Begg’s.