Sunday Post - 20.10.1940, Blaðsíða 3

SUNDAY POST
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CAUGHT — AND HELD.
THIS WEEK AT THE
Gamla Bid:
Vigil in the Night.
“Vigil in the night” is a com-
panion picture to the intensely
stirring “The Citadel” and by
the same author, Dr. A. J. Cro-
nin, eminent physician and
author.
At the Shereham County
Hospital in a little English
town, Lucy / Anne Shirley/,
a nurse in training, comes on
duty to relieve her sister, Anne
Lee / Carole Lombard/, who
is nursing a youngster afflicted
with diptheria. Lucy leaves her
Patient, who chokes to death.
Anne assumes the blame be-
cause she, as a graduate nurse,
has a chance of obtaining work;
and because Lucy, a student,
would never be allowed to
nurse again under the circum-
stances.
Anne leaves to the distress
kindly Joe Shand / Peter
Cushing/, who wants to marry
her, and goes to Manchester to
the Hepperton Hospital and en-
counters the cocky and conceit-
ed Dr. Caley / Robert Coote/.
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The famous Dr. Prescott /
Brian Aherne/ is about to oper-
ate on Matt Bowley / Julien
Mitchell/, a leading Manchest-
er citizen, and Anne watches
the operation. By keen observa-
tion she averts what might
have been a serious blunder,
which brings her to Prescott’s
attention.
Lucy is about to graduate,
and Anne returns to Shereham
for the ceremony. Enroute the
bus is wrecked. Anne sends for
ambulances and for Dr. Pres-
cott. With Prescott, she works
all night on the more seriously
injured. The fame of their ef-
forts pleases Prescott who is
fighting for a new Hepperton
Hospital, and the publicity may
aid his chances.
Lucy has married Joe Shand,
and they visit Anne. Prescott
assigns Anne to nurse Mrs.
Bowley, a neurotic. Matt Bow-
ley’s attentions to Anne grow
embarrassing. Anne is forced
to resign from the Hospital.
Bowley being to cowardly to
defend her. Prescott, depending
on Bowley’s support for the
new hospital, becomes cold to
A speech by Mr. Douglas
Fairbanks jr. was broadcast
from London Friday evening in
which he told of increasing
sympathy with Britain in the
U.S.A. and determination to
stop Nazi aggression. Mr. Fair-
banks said that he had lately
made a speech in Chicago, the
stronghold of the isolationists,
and his audience, about twenty-
five thousand people, had
cheered the British loudly and
claimed for increased assist-
ance from the U.S.A. to Brit-
ain.
Mr. Fairbanks also stated
that one of the biggest Holly-
wood companies had stopped
work to give its employers an
opportunity to hear Mr. Churc-
hill’s speech the other day.
A great many famous film
actors in the U.S.A. have spok-
en publicly advocating the
cause of Britain.
CINEMA
Anne, who angrily leaves him
and goes to London.
Here she finds Lucy working
at the Rolgrave Rest Home, a
shady establishment. Anne
^begs Lucy to quit, but Lucy,
being well paid and well treat-
ed, refuses. Anne joins the big
Trafalgar Hospital, where she
is soon promoted to be a ward
sister.
There she encounters Pres-
cott, who apologizes for his
earlier conduct. They find new
happiness which is clouded by
a patient’s suicide at Rolgrave
involving Lucy. At the trial
Prescott testifies in Lucy’s be-
half, and she is acquitted. Pres-
cott is about to ask Anne to
marry him when an epidemic
breaks out at Hepperton.
Anne and Lucy leave for
Hepperton and find conditions
trying. Supplies are lacking,
and Anne’s appels to Dr .Caley
and to Matt Bowley are re-
buffed. Desperate, she orders
the needed supplies, forging
Dr. Caley’s name. Bowley is
about to have Anne arrested
when his own little boy is
stricken.
Bowley begs Anne to save
Charlie Chaplin’s latest film
“Dictator”, his first movie in
four years, is now being shown
at two big Broadway theatres.
In this film Chaplin is a be-
wildered little soldier of the
World War. His German offi-
cers bully him and the German
war machinery overwhelms
and all but swallows him. An
attack of amnesia releases him.
As a shy little barber in the
Berlin ghetto, he tries to re-
sume life in a world where
little men count only as pawns
for the mad aspirations of Hyn-
kel, the dictator. He finds love
and sees the persecution of the
Jews. His voice — and this is
the first time Charlie speaks on
the screen — is the only one to
cry out in a wilderness of force.
Shut up in a concentration
camp, he is mistaken for the
dictator, thrust high into the
seat of the mighty, grows dizzy
with the sense of power. He
meets, plots and counterplots
with Napaloni, neighbouring
dictator across the border. Fin-
ally, at the pinnacle of his
career, surrounded by the ac-
coutrements of war, he speaks
not for hate and conquest but
for tolerance and peace.
This film has been received
with great enthusiasm in New
York, and Charlie Chaplin has
offered it free to the dictator
states. So far his generous offer
has not been accepted.
the boy, but it is Lucy who
watches over him and pulls the
boy through, to Bowley’s vast
gratitude. Lucy then comes
down with the dread disease;
and, despite all Dr. Prescott
and Anne can do, she dies, glad
that she has been able to make
amends for her carelessness at
Shereham.
Through Prescott’s and Bow-
ley’s efforts, the new hospital
is built and is named the Lucy
Lee Memorial Hospital. Anne
and Prescott are finally mar-
ried.
AWKWARD QUESTION.
“It appears they are short of
coffee in England,” said the
German school teacher.
“What is coffee?” asked a
pupil.
Film Stars Fight Hitler.
Douglas Fairbanks
broadcasts.
Cbarlie Chaplin’s
..Dictator."