REGENT THEATRE, ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1937, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE, ELTHAM.

"THE STORY OF LOU1S PASTEUR." If a finer and more significant picture than "The Story of Louis Pasteur," showing at the Regent Theatre, Eltham, tonight, has been made, it ' is difficult to recall. Much could be written about the dramatic power, absorbing situations and masterly direction and magnificerit acting of this film, but the impression it lriakes on those who have seen it tells a much more vivid story. This is the latest and greatest example of the translation of the work of a genius into an intensely interesting, even affecting, pictorial story of a discovery which altered the whole course of medical practice. Humanity can never pay, the debt it owes to Pasteur, for on his shoulders is the responsibility of having saved millions born after he was dead. Pasteur's life and work, his triumphs in the face of petty jealousy, prejudice, and above all, jgnorance, possess drama the. most inspired of scenarists generally concoct from the imagination. This story of the life and work of a fine man can bring a tear to a man's eye, and he is unashamed. Yet no dramatic story for years has been less sordid or harrowing. The leading roles are taken by Paul Muni and Josephine Hutchinson.