SPLENDID DRAMAS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 911, 4 November 1933, Page 24 (Supplement)

SPLENDID DRAMAS.

“ Emergency Call ” and “ Central Park.” Two splendid dramas—“ Central Park,” starring Joan Blondell and Wallace Ford and “ Emergency Call ” (Bill BoycF and Wynn Gibson) are offered’ at the Liberty Theatre today. '"Central Park is a romance of the greatest metropolis in the world, greatest from the point of view of concentration. To the hero and heroine the gnat park of New York, with its menageries and eatingstalls, its police patrols and criminals, its natural beuuties and Fifth Avenue society leaders, is u paradise where they carry on their love-making, secure from the rest of the world. But many things happen to interfere with their happiness, creating the unusual story which has become the film “ Central Park,” with Joan Blondell and Wallace Void playing the leading roles. The supporting cast includes Guy Kibbee, Henry B. Walthall, Joan Wray, Holmes Herbert, Patricia Ellis, Spencer Charters, Henry Armetta and Willard Robertson. Bill Boyd. William Gargan and Wynn Gibson are the principal player* in “ Emergency Cal!,’’ a startling drama of life in a great hospital. It reveals the operations of “crooked” lawyers and damage claim tricksters, who consider accident' victims their legitimate prey. Bill Boyd, as an idealistic and 1 belligerent ambulance surgeon, combats the evil influences in his hospital. When his driver (William Gargan) dies from defective ether under his knife, he discovers that “gangsters.” in league with the hospital chief, compelled the institution to buy inferior anaesthetics and other material. Boyd sets out to smash the “ racketeers,*' bis efforts providing many stirring episodes, many stirring episodes.