For many centuries authors have tried to portray the power of Christ and his influence over all men. The picture has been drawn in innumerable ways, by E. Temple Thurston has found perhaps the most striking device possible in the story of "The Wandering Jew."

It could be made into an interesting story in itself. A rich, intelligent Jew incurs the curse of Christ and is compelled to wander around the world until Christ returns to lift the curse. From the time of Calvary until the Spanish Inquisition the man roams from Asia Minor to Greece, Sicily, and at last Seville, having a life of licentiousness and selfish ease.

During the long period he gradually changes and his character becomes more nearly like that of Christ until the Inquisition he is prototype of the true follower of Christian teaching.

But the directors of the film have chosen to make it a character sketch of a remarkable person and have been surprisingly successful in attaining their goal. It would have been impossible with another actor but Conrad Veidt gives the most convincing performance of a man undergoing a great mental change that we have over seen. He proves himself to be one of the foremost artists. it is unfortunate that he has not been cast in films of wider distribution.