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Psychiatrist Mary White and physicians
Gordon Phillips and Jock Frazier mingle with the elite citizens of New
York at the city's annual Hospital Circus Ball. There, Gordon, who
is in love with Mary, proposes marriage to her, but she rejects him.
Though Mary is in love with Gordon, she tells him that she is unable to
take a marriage oath because she is committed to her career.
When Gordon learns that one of his patients,
the wealthy Englishwoman Lillian Belton, has just attempted suicide, he
leaves the ball to attend to her. While Lillian recovers from a
drug overdose, Gordon discovers that prior to her suicide attempt she
was depressed over her broken relationship with Jack Kerry, an alcoholic
Englishman. Realizing that Lillian's problem must be treated
delicately, Gordon suggests that she meet with Mary. Lillian takes
Gordon's advice but, when she places a call to Jack from Mary's office,
she learns that he has gone out drinking and attempts to jump out of the
window, but is stopped by Mary. The distraught Lillian admits that
she is in love with Jack but that he does not care for her.
Believing that she can help Lillian by counseling Jack and treating his
alcoholism, Mary asks her to bring him in for treatment.
Jack's drinking problem becomes immediately
apparent to Mary when he arrives at her home and asks for a drink to rid
himself of a hangover. During their meeting, Mary is called away
unexpectedly and forced to cancel the remainder of her session with
Jack. Later, when Mary returns home, she learns that Jack came
back and is asleep in one of her rooms. Mary allows him to catch
up on his much needed sleep, and Gordon takes him home the following
day.
Concerned about Mary's involvement with a
case as tough as Jack's, Gordon suggests that she turn him over to Dr.
Salter, a specialist in alcoholism. Four months after Jack is sent
to Brownlow's Physical Culture Camp to begin his rehabilitation, Gordon
and Mary visit him, but are disappointed when they discover that he is
still drinking heavily and prone to violent outbursts.
Eight months pass and Jack, showing definite
signs of recovery, demonstrates for Mary and Gordon his new invention:
an air chair for passenger airplanes.
Following Jack's release from the
rehabilitation center, he and Lillian make plans to marry and return to
England. Soon after they are married, however, the newlyweds
become embroiled in an argument when Lillian discovers that Jack has
fallen in love with Mary, and that Mary has developed strong feelings
for him as well. Furious, Lillian accuses Mary of seducing her
husband. Mary later tells Jack that he has become as dependent on
her as Lillian has become on him.
All ends happily though when Jack realizes
his obligation to remain true to his marriage commitment, and when Mary
finally accepts Gordon's marriage proposal. |
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