RIGHT TO LOVE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 17, 12 September 1931, Page 5

RIGHT TO LOVE

RUTH CHATTERTON TAKING LEADING ROLE. . SCREENING NEXT WEEK. Richard Wallace, maker of "The Shopworn Angel," and director of "Seven Days Leave," directed Ruth Chatterton in Paramount's stirring dramatisation of Susan Glaspell's novel, "Brook Evans," which has been produced under the appropriate title of "The Right to Love." In creating atmosphere and situation for this poignant, absorbing story of three generations of women who fight desperately to attain the love which is every woman's heritage, Richard Wallace has done the finest work of his career. Rarely does a director so fullv and c.omuletelv

catch the underlying emotional quality of the story., And. Wallace, working with the loving eare and inspired understanding ha3 succeeded in imbuing "The Right to Love" with that intangible feeling and sympathy that makes this well known Susan Glaspell novel one of the better entertainments the audible screen has offered the motion picture public. In the dominant roles (Miss Chatterton plays three distinct parts in this production) of "The Right to Love," Miss Chatterton scales new heights. In the beginning, she is cast as Naomi Kellogg, a young atid lovely girl, whose brief, ecstatic love ends in a life of sorrow. Later, she plays Naomi as an old woman, the wife of a man she has never loved. And at the end, she is cast as Brook Evans, daughter of Naomi, a young ,impulsive girl, to whom love beckons, just as it had to her mother, years before. Building up to a helievable and highly dramatie climax, through a series of well thought out, perfectly executed, logical sequences of great interest "The Right to Love" emerges as a picture to command the attention of every man and woman. Supporting Miss Chatterton is a distinguished cast, including Panl Lukas, Irving Pichel, Oscar Apfel and David Manners. "The Right to Love" will show at the Majestic Theatre on Septmber 14.

Conrad Nagel has been added to the cast of "Helga," Betty Compson's next starring vehicle for Radio, in which Robert Ames has already been assigned an important role. George Archainbaud wil direct.