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Show to spite your face!" T. I "111 give you two reasons, Jim ' my answered slowly. "I didn t cnp- pie that girl and I won't subscribe s to any action that implies I dia and, furthermore, one of the greatest great-est curses of the medical Proes; sion is that famous ditty entitled "My Aunt Hattie'd be alive today it the doctor hadn't murdered her... i "If you're going to quote me, quote me correctly, you young .whipper-snapper!" the old man thundered. "I didn't say 'Aunt Hat-tie' Hat-tie' I said 'Aunt Minnie'!" ! "Now, now, Leonard!" Dr. Carew I broke in in astonishment. "Whose j side are you on?" j "The doctors' always and so are you!'' exclaimed the ogre. "You're right, Leonard, the hos-! hos-! pita) president responded with de-I de-I termination. "As president of this I institution I thought it my duty ' to make the best of a bad bar-i bar-i gain but, as one doctor to an-i an-i other, I'm glad we're going to fight X . . '' ' - ' 1 ': ' i - I , a 1 t S ' f ' ri ' . 'I f ' - & II' .:- . ' ' - . " , - v 3 i W ft, . im ir i - - t--d Kg P "But fie directors uon't let a doclor stay ater he hns cost tfiein $100,000." PKj g4"3 Adapted from the Metro-Goldivyn Metro-Goldivyn - Mayer Picture by RANDALL M. WHITE CAST OF CHARACTERS Dr. James Kildare , . . Lew Ayros Dr. Leonard Gillespie , Lionel Barrymore Mary Lamont . . Laraine Day Frances Marlowe . . . Bonita Granville Molly Byrd ..... Alma Ktueer Vernon Briggs .... Red Skelton Mr. Reynolds . . . , Paul Stanton Fay Lennox . . . , Diana Lewis Dr. Walter Carew . . Walter Kngsford Nurse Parker ..... Nell Craig Mr. Channing .... Tom Conway poenas all over the place, for the hospital was sued too because Dr. Kildare had been on duty when he performed per-formed that emergency emer-gency operation in the dusty New Jersey road. Channing, attorney for the hospital, seemed seem-ed licked before he started. President Carew Ca-rew and wily old Dr. Gillespie were in on the early conferences to consider the dilemma. dilem-ma. Most worried were Dr. Kildare and Mary Lamont more than the nurse . who had assisted him, since she was also the young Tihvsician's fiancee. SYNOPSIS: With her professional future and financial success assured, pretty Frances Marlowe (Bonita Granville), ice-skater, drives her car into a heavy truck on a New Jersey road and is critically critical-ly injured. Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres) and his sweetheart, Nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day) are first at the scene of the accident. Kildare feels an emergency operation necessary and performs it there in the road, braving the dangers of infection in-fection At Blair General Hospital Hos-pital testy old Dr Leonard Gil-lispie Gil-lispie (Lionel Barymore) chides hi protege Kildare but secretly secret-ly admires him for his courage. Of greatest importance to Miss Marlowe is the healing of a compound fracture of one of her legs; without perfect healing her career will be ruined. When the cast is removed the leg is paralyzed and the patient bitterly bit-terly assails Kildare and hysterically hysteri-cally demands that she be removed re-moved from his care. petent, irrelevant, and immaterial,", said Attorney Channng as he rose quietly and without show of feel iae "I ask that It be stricken. "What do you expect to prove Counselor Reynolds?" asked, the 3U"f our Honor, August 2nd was the day Dr. Kildare used Miss Byrd a .ha! haTthat got to do with this action?" shouted Mr Chaining Chai-ning - with ill-timed show of SPReynolds withered him with sarcasm sar-casm "If my distinguished colleague col-league wants to claim that Superintendent Super-intendent of Nurses Byrd is accustomed accus-tomed to keeping whiskey m her car" he began smoothly, or that now-a-days bottles of whiskey are standard equipment in six-cylinder coupes, then perhaps I couldnt possibly prove that the : only time whiskey was found in Miss Byrd s car was the day Dr. Kildare used her car the day Dr- Kildare Kil-dare operated on my client, Miss Frances Marlowe." "But, Mr. Channing," Jimmy whispered whis-pered excitedly as his attorney sat down rebuffed, "I didn't tave whiskey in that car. I hadn t had a drink and they can't prove I had"' Dr. George Toung dropped another an-other bombshell for the plaintiff. He was the young ambulance ln- te"You found Dr. Kildare operating, operat-ing, Dr. Young?" Attorney Reynolds Rey-nolds asked. "Will you please tell us of any conversation you had with this defendant at the scene of the accident?'' "Well, I couldn't conceal my surprise sur-prise at the daring of the doctor? the interne began reluctantly, i remember I remarked that things must have been pretty bad. lhe young lady, Miss Lamont, said, something to the effect that she doubted whether the patient would have lived if Dr. Kildare had not proceeded so quickly with his surgical sur-gical work. I remember distinctly that Dr. Kildare said: 'Maybe maybe not'." "Dr. Young, did you have the feeling, from that remark of Dr. Kildare's that he was entirely without with-out doubt as to the necessity of this dangerous emergency operation?" opera-tion?" Channing was on his feet with an objection the instant Reynolds slipped this inadmissable query across quite obviously to discredit, the testimony of Dr. Kildare, pre-viouly pre-viouly given. The objection was-subtained was-subtained but the implication of. the question registered with the jury! i All this damaging testimony be-! fore lunch on the first day of the I trial! It was a badly discouraged Blair Hospital group that gathered in a little place they knew for a' bite to eat none of them wanted.' Attorney Channing was late. Be- fore he got there Dr. Gillespie castigated him unmercifully. "He's probably married to Reynolds' sis-ter," sis-ter," he barked, "and he's out now making a deal with his brother-in-law not to put me on the stand.: He knows I'm the only hope we've got!" Jimmy Kildare sat quiet. Suddenly Sud-denly he left the luncheon table. He had to telephone his parents about the progress of the trial, he said. "Look out! It's young Kildare we're Sealing with! Someone see that he really is In that phone booth," the wily Dr. Gillespie directed. direct-ed. But Jimmy was actually telephoning tele-phoning but maybe not to his parents. As he emerged from the booth he called Vernon Briggs, hospital orderly, from the bar, over into a corner. Yes, Briggs knew Berg-strom Berg-strom at Miller's garage. He knew he was honest. He knew he'd found the bottle of whiskey because he had seen him find it! "Too bad!'' he volunteered. "Now how you ever gonna prove which one was the drunk driver!' "Drunk driver?" Kildare asked In surprise. "Sure! Nobody throws good 11k-ker 11k-ker away except he's been mixing with gasoline," Briggs observed Innocently. In-nocently. Suddenly something clicked In the young doctor's mind. "Briggs," he said sharply. "Go tell Dr. Gillespie Gil-lespie I've gone out . . . I'll see them In court!" . . Briggs delivered the message. The beloved ogre almost choked on his food. "What did you let him go for, you benighted pin-head?" he roared. Briggs was Indignant. "How could I stop him?" he answered superiorly. "I never slug a pal . . . unless he hits me first!" Dow'r miss the final installment. Oopyrlrht 19 by Loew' Tim. Printed In TJ. S. A. Chapter Two ifor days a suspicious, furtive individual in-dividual haunted the corridors of the Blair General Hospital. Orderly Briggs he of the strange sense of humor knew the man or his breed with good reason, perhaps. The stranger's first appearance was to Briggs and his pal, Ganet, as they had just about finished painting themselves into complete isolation in the corner of the floor of an assembly room which they were refurbishing. "Hey, you can't come in here!" Briggs shouted as the furtive one poked his nose through the doorway. door-way. "I was looking for Miss Mollie Byrd," he announced lamely. The day after the summons were served Dr. Carew sought out Dr. Gillespie in his living quarters in the hospital because of late developments. de-velopments. He found that testy gentleman fussing with his man servant about such trifles as a pair of pants he couldn't find and his "baby carriage" without which he couldn't travel. The hospital president presi-dent saw a subpoena on Dr. Gillespie's Gil-lespie's table. "So you got one, too," he said. "Sure. I got one. Mollie Byrd got one. Everyone around here's got one," he snorted. "The next patient we open up will probably have one wrapped around his appendix!" ap-pendix!" To Dr. Kildare, who was there looking for comfort, he said: "Take Carew into my office. He's got bad news and I can't stand bad news with the wind whistling up my legs." Plus pants and his "baby carriage" the old fox joined Carew and Kildare a minute later. Dr. Carew addressed young Kildare. Kil-dare. "I've just come from a conference con-ference with the directors," he said. In your attendance on Miss Marlowe Mar-lowe did you see anything that would indicate cause for the patient's pa-tient's paralysis other than your operation?" "None," Dr. Kildare answered "but I still insist it wasn't caused by my operation." "Of course, of course," responded Dr. Carew, almost too quickly. "What about you, Leonard? Can you add anything that might be evidence?" "Nothing, but my own faith in Jimmy's judgment," the old man answered stoutly. "I was afraid of that,'' Dr. Carew Said slowly. "I'm going to ask our attorney to settle this case out of court. The directors think we may effect a considerable saving, paying fifteen or twenty thousand dollars instead of a hundred thousand." "Settle out of court? Why that would be the same as calling me guilty!" exclaimed Jimmy. "Not necessarily. Your position here would remain unchanged," Dr. Carew replied quickly. Kildare turned to Dr. Gillespie. "Dr. Gillespie," he asked in hard, clipped words, "can the hospital do this to me without my consent?" con-sent?" "They can," his mentor answered tartly. "Well, they can't make me like it! This, is still a free country!'' Kildare answered with a grim, tight smile on his lips. "Hear that, Walter!" exclaimed Gillespie. "This young fool would walk out on the whole kit and caboodle ca-boodle of us! That's a fine way, Jimmy, to settle nothing! Just give me one good reason why you should want to cut off your nose this case!" "Marlowe vs. Kildare'' which the young defendant bitterly declared de-clared should be titled "Ignorance vs. Medicine" got under way in a crowded courtroom where pity for the pretty plaintiff could be sensed at every turn. Tyros in legal affairs, the Blair General Hospital group were shocked shock-ed at the open friendship between Attorneys Channing for the defense de-fense and Reynolds for the prosecution. prose-cution. Dr. Kildare was called first by the plaintiff. With adroit questions Attorney Reynolds made him tell the story of the emergency operation opera-tion this way: Although on official business for the hospital, he was accompanied by his sweetheart. They had lunched lunch-ed together but had had no intoxicating in-toxicating drinks. His examination of the injured girl had been complete; com-plete; the accident had not caused her paralysis. He was a physician, not a surgeon, serving as assistant to Dr. Leonard Gillespie, diagnostician, diagnos-tician, at the Blair General Hospital. Hos-pital. If a similar operation had been necessary at the hospital, with all facilities at hand, he probably would not have been entrusted with the job. Attorney Reynolds showed quite early he was determined to win his case and that good sportsmanship sportsman-ship might be expected to suffer a bit in his doing it. "You operated to save the girl's life on the grounds that she'd be better off alive even though crippled, crip-pled, didn't you?" he thundered. "No, I confidentally expected her complete recovery!" Jimmy answered answer-ed in a rage. "But because you bungled the job . . .," Reynolds was continuing when the judge stopped him! "Now, Doctor, was there ever any doubt in your mind that you were right in operating?" he asked ask-ed mysteriously at an other time. "Did you, at any time before or after the operation, express any doubt?" "Never!" Kildare replied unequivocally. un-equivocally. Two subsequent witnesses seemed to blast the very foundation of Jimmy's testimony, In the eyes of even his most biased friends. Sven Bergstrom, garage attendant, attend-ant, swore he had found partially par-tially emptied bottle of whiskey in Molly Byrd's car which Dr. Kildare Kil-dare had been driving the day of the accident! "Whiskey! In my car! He's a foreign-born liar!" shouted Mollie Byrd when this first bombshell was dropped. "I object on the grounds that this line of questioning is incom- "Well, we ain't her," Briggs answered an-swered impudently. "Superintendent Byrd ain't here any more. She's gone to live with her sister.'' "Where does her sister live?" the stranger asked casually. "In Alaska she's a totem pole," Briggs answered as he blandly bland-ly continued his painting. The furtive fur-tive one ducked back through the doorway. "What did you want to send a guy on a wild goose chase like that for anyway?" chided Genet in mild reproval. "Maybe he is a good customer of the hospital." "Customer, me eye!'' snorted Briggs. "I know that bird he's a process server hands you a paper and you wake up in a patrol wagon!" Just then the public address system sys-tem blared: "Dr. Kildare wanted in Dr. Carew's office . . . Dr. Kildare Kil-dare wanted in Dr. Carew's office." "Dr. Kildare!" exclaimed Briggs bursting with -a sudden idea. "I'll bet that's why my pal was looking look-ing for Mollie Byrd. Maybe they're going to put everybody in jail for that dame Kildare operated on!'' "Say, I hear she was still yelling when the ambulance took her away," Genet reported. "Gee, I'm sorry for that girl I tried ice-skating ice-skating on two legs once!" The process server caught Dr. Kildare, named as principal defendant defen-dant in a suit for one hundred thousand dollars' damages which charged malpractice and resulting palalysis of Frances Marlowe's valuable leg. And he scattered sub- |