The Moving Picture Weekly (1919-1922)

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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 17 n "The Right to Happiness99 -Jewel Story by Olga Scholl and Hardcastle has become money mad, AT A GLANCE. Allen Holubar. intent on extorting the last penny and Directed by Allen Holubar. the last drop of blood from his asso SUBJECT— "The Right to Happi . CAST. ciates and workmen. He refuses to ness-" „ . . _ , ^lvum) Twins Dorothy Phillips employ returning soldiers, which re BRAND — Universal-Jewel. honia ) suits in a quarrel with his partner, LENGTH— Eight reels. Andrew Hardcastle, the father Henry Forrester. The men separate STAR — Dorothy Phillips. Henry Barrows an(j g0 their own ways. Forrester, an PREVIOUS HITS— "The Heart of Henry Forrester, his partner .„ idealistic though practical American, Humanity," "Destiny," "Paid in Winter Hall runs his factory on a different basis Advance," "The Talk of the Town." Tom Hardy William Stowell and thrives, while Hardcastle's men DIRECTED BY— Allen Holubar. Mrs. Hardy Margaret Mann revolt at their inhuman treatment. SUPPORTING CAST— William Stow Paul Robert Andersen The Russian girl, now known as ell, Robert Andersen, Henry Bar Monte Stanhope Wheatcroft Sonia, the little comrade, finds fertile rows, Winter Hall, Margaret Mann, Sergius Kerkoff Hector Sarno soil among Hardcastle's dissatisfied Hector Sarno, Alma Bennett and Leah, the nurse Fay Holderness workmen. Forrester's contented workStanhope Wheatcroft. men are impervious to her doctrines. SCENARIO BY— Olga Linck Scholl THE STORY. At length Vivian, the American twin, and Allen Holubar. AT the edge of the Jewish quarter of learns of the discontent and metamorSTORY BY— Allen Holubar. St. Petersburg, nineteen years phesis from an idler into a missionLOCALE — Russia nineteen years ago; ago, lives Andrew Hardcastle, an ary among the workmen's families. Russia in its chaotic war-time tur American millionaire, with his mother She works wonders with the help of moil; the lower east side of New less twin girls, Dorothea and Vivian. Tom Hardy, her father's foreman. York; the fashionable residential Hardcastle goes away overnight on a Finally Sonia leads a crazed mob district; the industrial section. business trip, leaving the girls in against her own father's palatial THUMB-NAIL THEME — Two baby care of their Jewish nurse. During home, not knowing, of course, who he daughters of a rich American in his absence a Cossack pogrom against is. Vivian reaches home after a misRussia become separated during a the Jews breaks out. Hardcastle's sion of mercy about the same time, brutal pogrom in the Jewish quar home is burned, the nurse is killed The girls meet and are strangely atter of old St. Petersburg. One and the girls are separated, Dorothea tracted to each other. Sonia saves her grows up in a hot-bed of radicalism being adopted by a Jewish family and sister from the angry mob and is shot and is sent to America, at the age reared in radicalism. by a Russian agitator. The wounded of nineteen years, to spread the doc Hardcastle finds Vivian, takes her girl is carried into her father's house trine. The other sister is brought back to America, where she is brought where he learns her identity before up as the pampered daughter of a Up in idleness and luxury. The Rus she dies. By her supreme sacrifice he millionaire. The girls meet when sian twin becomes a radical leader, comes to understand. He goes to the the Russian sister storms the resi dominates the meetings and is finally door and tells the mob of workmen of dence of her own father at the head sent to America to stir up unrest and a new order of things. They cheer of a crazed mob. She is shot and strife. She is accompanied by Paul, him and disperse, killed and her supreme sacrifice her adopted brother, a peace-advo Vivian marries Tom Hardy, the changes her father's heart for good, eating adorer, and by Sergius, the fox, foreman, and the partnership of HardThe American twin marries her a sneaking Russian, also a leader in castle and Forrester is resumed on a father's factory foreman. the radical cause. model basis. ADVERTISING PUNCHES. 1 — Crushing indictment of the Bolsheviki bubble. 2 — The popularity of the star won through "The Heart of Humanity" and "Destiny." 3 — An accurate and intimate glimpse of Lenine and Trotsky at a starchamber session of the Soviet. 4 — A relentless unmasking of Germany's assistance in extending Bolshevic influence. 5 — The spectacle of a beautiful girl leading a mob to wreck her father's home. 6 — Visual proof that the seeds of Bolshevism will not grow in contented noil. 7 — A spectacular Cossack raid on the Jewish quarter of St. Petersburg before the war. 8 — Tearing the veil from the secret activities of the Russian agitators in America. ADVERTISING DISPLAY LINES "The Right to Happiness" is the solution for social unrest. "Industrial unrest is just insignia for the heart," says Paul, the Russian peasant in "The Right to Happiness." Dorothy Phillips in the play of the hour, "The Right to Happiness." Lenine and Trotsky sent Sonia to America. See Sonia in "The Right to Happiness." Allen Holubar directed Dorothy Phillips in "The Right to Happiness." "The Right to Happiness" is Universal's contribution to the public safety of America in the hour of its trial with Bolshevism. ''The Right to Happiness" is a photographic machine-gun trained on the red rabble that menaces the safety of our homes in America. Free love was the only doctrine of the Soviet that she resisted. Dorothy Phillips in "The Right to Happiness."