“A MAN’S PAST.”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)

“A MAN’S PAST.”

A question that has stirred up the nedical profession for centuries is jrought up in “A Man’s Past,” starring Conrad Veidt, the Universal picture opening at the New Grand Theatre on Tuesday next. It shows the doctor

as a man attempting to help humanity, struggling as a human and making human mistakes. The question of whether a doctor has a right to put an incurable sufferer out of his misery is raised in this picture, for in the early part of the story Conrad Veidt. the star, does this and is instantly condemned. So far no satisfactory answer to this great question of law and ethics has been found. If relatives give consent, the government intervenes and the physician finds himself behind bars for murder. This motion picture is taken from the famous European play “Diploma,” by Emeric.h Foeldes. It was directed bv George AFelford with most of the action taking place in the Sahara Desert of Algiers. The supporting cast includes Barbara Bed-ifor-i. lan Keith, Arthur Edmund Carew. Puffy, Corliss Palmer, Edward •L ■ h and George Siegmann