FRANK TREATMENT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20453, 5 November 1934, Page 3

FRANK TREATMENT.

“ Damaged Lives ” Booked for Crystal Palace.

Through the agency of the Racial Hygiene Association, a picture has been produced, under the title of “ Damaged Lives,” illustrating the danger, the horror and the tragedy that arises from social diseases. A private screening was given yesterday of the film, which will be shown at the Crystal Palace Theatre next Saturday. It is a picture solely for adults. Nearly fifteen years have passefl since the screening of Eugene Brieux’s play, ” Damaged Goods,” in New Zealand, and, just as the lessons of that film must have proved of value to its generation, so the lessons to be learned from “ Damaged Lives ” should be of benefit at the present time. The film deals with an unpleasant but vital subject openly and frankly, and the audience is not spared the sight of actual clinical cases of the many and terrible effects of the diseases. It goes further than that, illustrating the methods that have been adopted by science in its fight to prevent and cure the disease, making a genuine and sincere effort to warn the community of danger of contraction and to impress upon it the importance of speedy treatment. There are two sections of the film. The first unfolds a simple but dramatic story of present-day Amercan life, wherein a young husband contracts a disease and passes it on to his wife. When the terrible truth is revealed, the distracted wife, who is expecting to become a mother, seeks a way out by attempting to take both lives, but good fortune intervenes, and the story ends on a hopeful note. In its second phase, the film consists of an instructional lecture by an American medical