Road to Paradise (Warner Bros.) (1930)

Length (Vitaphone) 6,935 Feet Running Time 76 Minutes FIRST NATIONAL FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES PICTURES Vitaphone brings you the unusual in a dual talking role by Loretta Young NEW. YORK CITY, U: S. A. with LORETTA YOUNG, JACK MULHALL, RAYMOND HATTON Three Desperate People At Bay! Cut No. 19 Cut 30c, Mat 10c Loretta Young, who takes a dual talking role, Raymond Hatton and George Barraud, in the First National and Vitaphone production, “Road to Paradise,” coming to the Principals In The Cast Of “ROAD TO PARADISE” Mieyare! Wanng LORETTA YOUNG Mary Brennan \ _ George Wells ............, EAP OB en far wie rer ree Jack Mulhall iG ee Raymond Hatton pire 1 Ne Gene eS George Barraud Bets eS ee ee Kathlyn Williams Cateye ee es ee ee ee Fred Kelsey Per se Purnell Pratt Planted ee Ve Ben Hendricks, Jr. ea ea ae Dot Farley ieee er a OS ee Winter Hall RWGNNGS ee Win a ee Georgette Rhodes 2 EEE a SES SS SES SEU ASS SGT SINaeer Double Role—Single Salary “ROAD TO PARADISE” NOW PLAYING AT THEATRE Double exposure is nothing | new in photography in making motion pictures. But Loretta Young is the first girl who has ever made a double exposure talkie. The synchronization is a tremendous problem, but Miss Young carries off with a degree of perfection which will even send the spectator away rubbing his eyes. She appears in a dual role in “Road To Paradise,’ the First National Vitaphone production now showing at the .......... Theatre. Jack Mulhall plays the lead opposite her. The story brittles with mystery, in addition to its highly unusual love inter: est. Raymond Hatton and Fred Kelsey have featured roles. Wonder if Loretta earned double salary while making “Road To Paradise?” PRINTED IN U. S. A. (Current Reader—Vitaphone) current attraction at the Theatre is “Road Toa Paradise,’ which presents Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, George Barraud, Kathlyn Williams and other favorites in a new sort of crook melodrama. The role, or rather roles played by Miss Young are outstanding She is a feminine “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in the plot, although neither is an unsympathetic part. The dual role is her first, and either part alone would represent the most difficult she has yet attempted. “Road To Paradise” is a First' National and Vitaphone offering, based on the lively story by. F, Hugh Herbert. William Beaudine directed the picture. The Synopsis (Not for Publication) Mary Brennan, an orphan, has been brought up by Nick and Jerry the Gent, two high class crooks, but is inclined to be honest, despite their teachings. The three have noticed that Mary bears a strong resemblance to Margaret Waring, an heiress, and Nick and Jerry plan to rob the Waring mansion. Mary has been persuaded against her will to do this “job.” However, she steals into Margaret’s bedroom while the girl is at a charity ball, and dons one of her dresses. A policeman, noticing Nick and Jerry climbing to the roof, tells the Waring butler, ‘| who immediately goes up to-Mar=t garet’s bedroom. Mary, posing as Margaret, assures him that nothing is wrong—that Mrs. Wells, with whom she had gone to the ball, became sick and they returned. Mrs. Wells’ son, George, going past the house, notices the policeman and investigates. At first he, also is misled by Mary’s disguise, but senses a difference and falls in love with her. Mary gets rid of him and the French maid, and tackles the safe with the aid of Nick and Jerry, whom she had let into the room. When Margaret arrives home, she sees the crooks. Jerry fires at her, but Mary jumps in front of her. However, Margaret is wounded and unconscious. Mary quickly dresses Margaret in her old clothes. She fools everyone into believing Margaret is the crook, but George notices that a ring he had given Margaret is not on Mary’s hand, but the unconscious girl’s hand. He knows Mary is the crook, but because he loves her, he protects her. Through a medal on Mary’s neck, Margaret discovers that she is a long lost twin sister. The prosecution is dropped and George’s proposal is accepted by ary. “Road to Paradise’’ Brings Loretta Young To In Dual Role Drama Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton and Kathlyn Williams Contribute Fine Performances To Excellent Picture (Prepared Review) Unfolding a real mystery of identification mingled with a very poignant human drama, Road To Paradise” opened yes‘tterday at the Theater. Loretta Young plays the dual role in this First National Vitaphone picture, and does it with a wistful charm and tenderness which stamp her as one of screenland’s leading actresses, cooks «2larred_ hy George Barraud and Raymond Hatton. She has always) gone straight and they have always wanted her to. However when they discover one day the daughter of an old and wealthy family who bears a striking resemblance to her, they conceive a plot which, if she will participate in it, will make her independent of the small clerking and office jobs, which always blow up because her employer gets too| fresh. She in turn is tempted in order to send one of the crooks to a sanitarium for his lungs. The plot moves into the attempted crime of robbing the house, of the meeting of the two girls, and of the eventual surprise denouement. The whole makes an engaging mystery. Double Heroine Jack Mulhall plays opposite Miss Young, as the gay debonnaire society man with a fussy mother, played by none other than that old screen favorite Kathlyn Williams. Mulhall is in love with the society | girl but she does not take him seriously because he does not take himself seriously enough. Others in the cast who give excellent performances include Dot Farley, Dale Winter, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Georgette Rhodes, Purnell Pratt, and Fred Kelsey. The latter two give excellent performances in the role of police. Kelsey will be remembered as the famous “Mulligan” in “The Gorilla.” Especial:y interesting is the double exposure work, and _ the double recording of Miss Young’s voice. “Road To Paradise” is from the screer play by F. Hugh Herbert, and was directed by William Beaudine. Cut No. 18 Cut 15c Mat Sc SUMMARY “Road To Paradise” Is An Intensely Dramatic Story Of Twin Sisters—one a debutante—one a figure of the underworld. What happens when the gungirl takes her sister’s place makes one of the most unusual of dramas. Loretta Young in “Road to Paradise” Hatton Owns Oil Land Lots of people consider themselves lucky if they can ever get to own a beach home. After Raymond Hatton became a big success in pictures he purchased a beautiful piece of isolated beach frontage 75 miles from Los Angeles, and built a beach cottage on the rocks above the sand. Recently oil was discovered along the beach nearby, and as a result Hatton received immense royalties for his land, which is now being drilled on. Hatton is now appearing in “Road to Paradise” at the rd > The story concerns a girl who has been raised by a couple _ J :