Ever since he was a child, Ricardo Cortez had wanted to be a surgeon and help people; he opens his office on the second floor of a tenement house and charges his patients fifty cents. But businessman brother Noel Madison keeps saying that medicine is a business, their parents are getting old and would appreciate a few comforts, so first it's West End Avenue, and then it's Park Avenue, where his clients are rich, neurotic, and have nothing really wrong with them, and then Park Avenue, where they are even richer. Meanwhile, children at the clinic he pays for downtown die for lack of his superb skills.
It's a Fannie Hurst weeper, and oy veyismir, is there weeping, particularly by Cortez when his father, Gregory Ratoff, dies under his scalpel. Can he redeem himself and find his soul and dedication again, even with Irene Dunne as the reward?
I doubt if this will play these days. Miss Hurst's generation-hurdling weepers seem soppy, and her characters stereotypes -- even if I knew family members like that when I was growing up; as a matter of fact, my grandfather's name was Meyer, just like Ratoff's character.
It's a Fannie Hurst weeper, and oy veyismir, is there weeping, particularly by Cortez when his father, Gregory Ratoff, dies under his scalpel. Can he redeem himself and find his soul and dedication again, even with Irene Dunne as the reward?
I doubt if this will play these days. Miss Hurst's generation-hurdling weepers seem soppy, and her characters stereotypes -- even if I knew family members like that when I was growing up; as a matter of fact, my grandfather's name was Meyer, just like Ratoff's character.