MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 257, 31 October 1939, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

"WOMAN DOCTOR"

"Woman Doctor," which heads today's programme at the Majestic Theatre, is a last-moving, poignant story of the many sacrifices forced on a woman surgeon in her services to humanity. It is only when she is likely to lose both her husband and daughter that full realisation of the position is brought home to her. An emergency operation in mid-air! j\ plane unable to land because of fog. Her own daughter as the patient! I That's the situation which faces Frieda Inescourt in tlte tensely dramatic climax. In this Republic film Frieda Inescort is a famous woman surgeon. Her husband is played by Henry Wilcoxon and her daughter by Sybil Jason. In the scene leading up to the climax, Sybil is critically injured when a runaway horse throws her to the ground on the Rhode Island estate oi her father. Sybil and her father having left the child’s mother, .because they felt she was neglecting her home for a profession. Forced to fly the injured child to a New York hospital, the group find a donee fog preventing a landing in New York. Seeing that delay may be fatal, Dr. Randall decides to operate despite the fact that a slight jolt of the plane may cause inistant death. A situation of intense i action, in which a successful operation is conducted on the fast moving ship, completes a thrilling scene. "Four Daughters’’ Warner Brothers’ outstanding presentation, "Four Daughters,” adapted from a story by Fannie Hurst, will commence at the Majestic Theatre on Friday. A picture of considerable charm, "Four Daughters" has the rare power of holding audiences enthralled by its lovely atmosphere, and by the power of its acting.