Registered Nurse (Warner Bros.) (1934)

| ~ REVIEW “Registered Nurse” Unique Picture of Hospital Romance A love story, replete with drama, action and passion, yet entirely free from the morbidity of the usual hospital’ picture, a rapidly moving, superbly acted silver screen romance, is “Registered Nurse,” featuring beautiful Bebe Daniels, which had its local premiere at the... . Theatre yesterday. First National chose wisely in eliminating the depressing elements of institutional life as well as in casting the production. The story, which was written by Florence Johns and Wilton Lackaye, Jr., centers around the beautiful trained nurse wife of a drunken wastrel, whose love is sought by two staff surgeons; the action, however, reveals a number of other romances, giving the audience a glimpse into the intimate lives of the members of a great metropolitan hospital. Bebe Daniels, still youthful despite her long career in the movies, which incidentally she entered at the age of twelve, and more beautiful than ever in a nurse’s costume, again shows the talent that made her the first outstanding star of the silent films to score a personal hit in talking pictures. Miss Daniels is ably supported by two leading men, Lyle Talbot, in the role of the villain, and John Halliday, as the hero. ‘Talbot, as ever, is the suave olished man-of-the-world, who by attery and deception ingratiates himself into the affections of a too trustful woman. John Halliday, as the chief of the hospital staff of surgeons, and | Talbot’s rival for the pretty nurse, gives an exceptional performance. There are few more talented players on the screen than Halliday as attested by his performances in such pictures as “The House on 56th Street,” “Man Called Back,” “Fifty Million Frenchmen” and others. In “Registered Nurse” he handles his part with a brilliance akin to genius. Irene Franklin, the famous musical star, lends-a bit of refreshing comedy to the production as the lady of easy morals who attempts to disrupt the entire institution after having been forcibly taken to the hospital much battered up from a free for all fight, aS does also Sidney Toler, a wrestling promoter and Miss Franklin’s companion in crime. Nursing a Heart Sickness “Registered Nurse” Will Open Today af.... Theatre “Registered Nurse,” First National’s glowing romance of hospital life, is billed as the feature attraction on the program of the -... Theatre today. Based on the thrilling drama by Florence Johns and Wilton Lackaye, Jr., it deals with the love lives of hospital staff, doctors and nurses, rather than with the more sombre technical side of such an institution. There is a technical cast of players headed by Bebe Daniels, who portrays a nurse who resumes her profession after her marriage proves a failure. It is over the love of this pretty nurse that the two leading surgeons of the hospital engage in spirited rivalry. The roles of the two physicians are taken by Lyle Talbot and John Halliday. As far as the story is concerned only two patients play any important part in the picture; a wrestling promoter and his light 0’ love both of whom have been battered up in a hammer and tongs battle. Enacted by Sidney Toler and Irene Franklin, they give a comedy twist to some of the situations in a picture which is otherwise melodramatic. Others in the cast include Gordon Westcott, Minna Gombell, Beulah Bondi, Vince Barnett, Phillip Reed, Mayo Methot and Renee Whitney. The picture, which was directed by Robert Florey from the screen play by Lillie Hayward ana Peter Milne, is said to give a unique and interesting insight into what goes on behind the closed doors of a big metropolitan hospital. : Other members of the cast are uniformly éxcellent and include such well known players as Gordon Westcott, Minna Gombell, Beulah Bondi, Vince Barnett, Phillip Reed, Mayo Methot, Virginia Sale and Renee Whitney. Altogether the picture is an unusually unique and entertaining drama with plenty of thrills and snappy dialogue that measures up to the First National standard of presenting only the most interesting of up-to-the-minute themes. The picture has been skillfully directed by Robert Florey from the screen play by Lillie Hayward and Peter Milne. well worth seeing. . “Registered Nurse,” the It is a picture — A registered nurse who registers emotion! That’s Bebe Daniels, who’s temperature rises every time she sees Lyle Talbot in First. National’s “Registered Nurse.” Others in the cast are Irene F ranklin, John Halliday, Gordon Westcott and Vince Barnett. The film is coming to the Strand on Thursday. Mat No. 8—20c Bebe Daniels Now Realizes Youthful Urge to Be Nurse Bebe Daniels has long cherished a secret ambition to be a trained nurse. This interesting disclosure came about when someone asked the star how she liked being attired in the nurse costume she wears in First National picture which comes to the..... Theatre on.... “I love it,’ responded the glamorous Bebe. “I’ve always had a secret urge to be a nurse. That really was my ambition during my school days. And the strange thing about it is that this is the first opportunity I’ve had to portray such a role on the screen.” With all the thousands of nurses throughout the world who long to be screen stars—here’s one of the latter who has all along had ambitions to enter the ranks of the sickroom workers, so perhaps that evens things. “Registered Nurse” was directed by Robert Florey with a strong supporting cast which includes Lyle Talbot, Mayo Methot, John Halliday, Irene Franklin, Minna Gombell, Sidney Toler, Gordon Westcott, Renee Whitney and Phillip Reed. The picture is based on the play by Florence Johns and Wilton Lackaye, Jr., and adapted to the screen by Lillie Hayward and Peter Milne. It concerns the ro mance in the life of a nurse rather than her technical duties. Nurse in Hospital Movie Comes from Family of Doctors Minna Gombell, who enacts the role of a nurse in “Registered Nurse,” the First National picture now showing at the... . Theatre, is especially convincing in the role, not only by reason of her acting ability, but because she is descended from a family of noted surgeons. She is the daughter of the late Dr. William Gombell, well known in medical circles of Baltimore, and a niece of Dr. Henry Salzer, famed physician attached to the John Hopkins Hospital of that city. Early in life Minna resolved to also become a famous surgeon, then she favored the nursing profession, later deciding to enter the theatre world. This is the first opportunity on either stage or screen that the talented actress has had to portray the profession she once had decided to adopt. “Registered Nurse” presents the romantic side of a nurse’s life in a metropolitan hospital. It is based on a thrilling drama by Florence Johns and Wilton Lackaye, Jr., and adapted to the screen by Lillie Hayward and Peter Milne. There is a strong cast including Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, Irene Franklin, John Halliday, Sidney Toler, Gordon Westcott, Minna Gombell, Beulah Bondi and Vince Barnett. Robert Florey directed. Bebe Daniels Twenty Years on the Screen While working in “Registered Nurse,” the First National picture which comes to the... . Theatre on ... ., Bebe Daniels celebrated the twentieth anniversary of her first appearance on the screen. And Bebe is just thirty. She can’t even remember when she was not playing either for the stage or screen. Her first recollections are of playing before the footlights at the age of four. She was twelve when she made her first screen appearance.’ FREAK fs ts BEGAN HER VAUDEVILLE CAREER AT THE AGE OF SIX MONTHS AND HAS BEEN AT IT EVER SINCE, JOUN HALLIDAY BECAME AN ACTOR AFTER LOSING THE FORTUNE HE HAD AMASSED AS A MINER IN GOLDFIELD,NEVADA. HAS LIVED NEAR THE SEA SO LONG THAT SHE CAN'T SLEEP AWAY FROM THE ROAR OF THE HAS A GOOD LUCK NECKTIE WHICH HE ; ALWAYS WEARS THE DAy HE STARTS A PICTURE. These popular stars are appearing in First National’s “Registered Nurse,’ now at the Strand. Here’s a news feature that’s clever, interesting and a swell plug for the picture. All the newspapers are using it. Your’s should too! Mat No. 2—20c Grown Up Actors Get Fun Out of Children’s Toys Bebe Daniels Catches Them Racing Cars in Child Ward of ‘Registered Nurse” are nothing but grown-up children. After watching what took YT’ HAS long been a favorite theory of Bebe Daniels that men place in the children’s ward of the big hospital built on one of the First National sound stages for the production of “Registered Nurse,” which comes to the . . .. Theatre on . certain than ever that she is right. . . .» Bebe is more The children’s ward had been laid out with the utmost attention to everything that such a room in a first-rate modern hospital would be likely to contain, including a remarkable collection of mechanical toys for the amusement of the young convalescent patients. After the first long shot was taken, fifteen or twenty minutes were necessary to line up for the next shot, and Miss Daniels went to her dressing room for a few repairs to her makeup. When she returned to her set, the spectacle that met her eyes caused her to stand speechless with amazement for a moment. Then she burst into laughter. Kids Watch Adults Play A dozen children were sitting up in their hospital beds watching, with dancing eyes, Director Robert Florey and Phillip Reed down on their knees, winding up two of the toy automobiles and getting ready to start them on a race across the floor of the ward. At the other end of the room, Lyle Talbot, playing one of the hospital doctors, was acting as a judge at the finish line. Dignified John Halliday, who is the head surgeon of the hospital in “Registered Nurse,” held a handkerchief poised in his hand, as he knelt near the racers. All four men were as tensely excited as if they had been on the speedway at Indianapolis. “V’ll count three,” cried Halliday, “and when I drop the flag, let ’em go!” On the other side of the room, a gallery of interested nurses, including Minna Gombell, Mayo ec ee A a Sg Methot, Renee Whitney and Beulah Bondi, were lined up, ready to cheer the winner. Director’s Car Wins “One — two — three!” shouted Halliday. The handkerchief flashed, and Florey and Reed let their cars go. At the finish line, Lyle Talbot waited breathlessly, then yelled, “Florey wins!’ as the director’s car flashed across the line, two lengths ahead of Reed’s, “Let’s make it the best two heats out of three,’ said Reed. “My car’ll do better than she did that time. Maybe I didn’t have it wound up enough.” Then the crowd was interrupted by Bebe Daniel’s laugh. -“Go right ahead, boys. Don’t mind me,” observed the star, as she walked out into the room. “I’ve got a husband at home who’s just as fond of fooling around with the baby’s toys as you are.” It is a matter of record that most of the children in the “Registered Nurse” company showed merely a passing interest in the toys provided for them. The picture is based on the thrilling drama by. Florence Johns and Wilton Lackaye, Jr., which, though set almost entirely in the atmosphere of a hospital, deals with the romantic side of a nurse’s life rather than with her more sombre duties. The screen play is by Lillie Hayward and Peter Milne. 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