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Appointment for Love (Universal). Dr. Jane Alexander (Margaret Sullavan) is an enterprising medico who can reduce most of life's foibles and pleasures to dank laboratory formulas. To her, love is a chemical attraction; jealousy a spurt of adrenalin, etc. She works most of the time.

It was inevitable that Dr. Alexander and Playwright Andre Cassil (Charles Boyer) should meet. She tells him that his new play stinks, and he falls in love with her. She marries him. That settles nothing. The doctor insists on maintaining her separate individuality in a separate apartment. He reads her X-rays, she scans photos of his old loves, and Mother Nature triumphs in time for the final fadeout.

Goo-goo-eyed Charles Boyer, although his performance could not be called expansive, plays his accustomed role with some comedy and without undue strain. Earnest Margaret Sullavan manages to seem nubile as well as noble. On the whole, Appointment, like Bill Nye's appraisal of Wagner's music, is "better than it sounds."

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