Road to Paradise (Warner Bros.) (1930)

\ Underworld Mingles With Uppercrust In A Drama With Unlimited Box-Office Appeal! First National Pictures, Inc. INFORMATION BRIEFS ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS “Road To Paradise” Gripping Underworld Story Of Double Identity And Strange Consequences Loretta Young Gives Excellent Performance In Dual Role. Jack Mulhall and Raymond Hatton In Support (Prepared Review) A fine story of double identity and love is “Road To Paradise,” which opened yesterday at the Theatre, with Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Kathlyn Williams and Fred Kelsey in the cast. Thrills and mystery run through the picture in which Miss Young plays two roles. Never has this player seemed more lovely on the screen. Her performance reveals a wistful charm, and a youthful freshness which are delightful. Miss Young takes the part of Margaret Warring, a society girl, and Mary Brennan, an orphan who has been raised by two crooks, who have cared for her tenderly. She has always gone straight, and has never entered the underworld to which they belong. However a chance meeting in a cafe with a society crowd who have gone slumming causes one of the crooks to note the striking likeness between the orphan girl and the society girl, who is the daughter of an old and wealthy family. man, with a fussy mother, a role admirably taken by Kathlyn Williams, who is engaged to the society girl. She does not take him especially seriously because she does not think he takes himself serious In order to give the orphan girl many of the things in life which the small clerking jobs she has held, but lost because of fresh employers, do not afford, and because she is anxious to send one of the crooks to the sanitarium because of his lungs, she consents to a plot to rob the house with them through means ly. What happens when he meets the girl who bears so striking a resemblance to his fiancee proves a fascinating tale which holds the interest from first to last. “Road To Paradise” is from the screen play by F. Hugh Herbert, and was directed by William Beaudine. Others in the cast are George of using her striking likeness to| Barraud, Dot Farley, Winter Hall, avoid detection in case there is| Ben Hendricks, Jr., Georgette trouble at the time of the robbery.| Rhodes, Purnell Pratt and Fred Jack Mulhall is a young society | Kelsey. THE ROA STRAND Is THE where tomance rides high and love-light hides the identity of Ba beautiful ~ bandit. Loretta Young in a dual talking Twice the Twice role. thrills! the Twice the powerful punch of poe Leanne REET ¥ See ee mighty drama! LORETTA YOUNG 4 FIRST NATIONAL romance! JACK MULHALL and Raymond Hatton WT pADHoMis Cut No. 3 Cut 40c, Mat 10c Pace Four presents MULHALL Raymond HATTON | Mat Sc Cut 20c BCut No. 4 é Wm. Beaudine A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE **Twin Detector’ Newest Movie Job! It sounds like a gag, but it isn’t, for “Twin Detector” is what they called an expert shorthand clerk hired by First National pictures during the filming of “Road To Paradise,” a Vitaphone special at the Theatre. Harry Carsey was his name, and he qualified for ) the job by being court | stenographer in Chicago and Denver. His business was to record minutely every movement made by Loretta Young in every one of the many _ double exposure scenes of the picture, in which she plays a dual role as her own twin sister. His task was complicated by having to record TWO girls, and to keep their identities separate despite the fact that, being one and the same, they resembled each other more than any other twins on record! After his first hectic day on the job Jack Mulhall, leading man in the picture, dubbed him “Twin Detector,” and the label stuck! Fred Kelsey Noted “Cop” In “Road To Paradise” (Current Reader—Vitaphone) One of the important featured players in “Road To Paradise” which is now showing at the of eee eee Theatre, is Fred Kelsey, veteran character actor. “Mulligan talks,’ might well be the caption for Kelsey’s part, for it was he who made famous the line “Mulligan, Mulligan, where the hell is Mulligan!” Kelsey took the part of one of the two dumb police officers in “The Gorilla,” which First National produced several years ago from Ralph Spence’s famous play of thrills and laughter. Charley Murray was the other detective, it will be remembered, and he and Kelsey created a pair of detectives who will long be remembered. “Road To Paradise is a thrilling drama of dual identity, mystery, and the underworld, and features Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Kathlyn Williams, Dot Farley, and others. William Beaudine directed for First National. ‘mond Hatton, Loretta Young in “Road to Paradise” Cut No. 16 Cut 20c Mat Sc Biography of LORETTA YOUNG Loretta Young was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and came to Los Angeles with her parents when she was four years old. Not many persons know that she and the child star, Gretchen Young, are the same girl. She retired wher she reached the “sawky” age of twelve, and was seen no more until, at the age of sixteen, she was given a “bit” in Colleen Moore’s First National picture, “Naughty But Nice.” Her fine work attracted the star’s attention, so her part was built up, and Miss Moore called her to the notice of studio executives. She was signed on long-term contract. Under that contract, she has progressed steadily from playing bits to stardom. “Fast Life,” “The Careless Age,” “The Forward Pass,” and other notable talking picture productions brought her definitely to the foremost ranks of ie streti's raewer “weeneratineof| actresses. Miss Young has two sisters who are also noted in pictures, Polly Ann and Sally Blaine. The young starlet herself is an outdoor girl, fond of all sorts of sports. She speaks French fluently, | trated and has studied other languages for future talkie work. Miss Young is a slender, willowy girl with very large gray eyes and red-brown hair that is almost light enough to photograph blonde. She was recently chosen the most beautiful of the screen’s younger actresses by a magazine’s voting committee of noted artists and drama critics. Her latest production for First National Pictures to whom she is under contract are BEAUDINE NOTED FOR PROFITABLE HOBBIES (Advance Reader—Vitaphone) William Beaudine, who directed “Road To Paradise’ which comes tothe cee ae ene Theatre on SS SS ete , is noted as a believer in hobbies which often prove very profitable in a business way. For instance, he is the proprietor of the largest auto laundry in Hollywood, and pioneered the use of the straight-line moveable belt system which enables a car to be washed and delivered in 15 minutes at a cost of from a dollar to a dollar and a_ half. This “Pal Auto Laundry,” which he started in company with the late William Russell, washes and greases thousands of cars a week, and has been a tremendous money-maker. He has been in several mining ventures, has bought and_ sold apartment houses, and even once was the publisher of a motion picture magazine, “The Director,” which failed to turn out profitably. Beaudine is noted for his pep and enthusiasm, and is rated as one of Hollywood’s foremost directors, among his achievements being several of Mary Pickford’s best pictures. “Road To Paradise” is a power: ful drama of misunderstood identity, with Loretta Young and Jack Mulhall in the leading roles. RayKathlyn Williams, Dot Farley, and Fred Kelsey are among those in the cast. The screen play is by F: Hugh Herbert. Jack Mulhall in * “Road to Paradise” Cut NO. 17, Cut 20c Mat Sc Biography of JACK MULHALL Jack Mulhall was born in Wappingers’ Falls, New York, a little town fifty miles from the Grand Central Station. He attended public schools there and later St. Mary’s Academy. At the same time he was very much a “boy about town,” and he held a dozen or so jobs during school days! He was still a youngster in the middle ’teens when his family migrated to Passaic, New Jersey. Young Mulhall got a taste of stage acting there in a few very unimportant juvenile “bits’ of New York shows that were being “tried out on the dog.” He then went to work in a New Jersey iron foundry! After six months of blistering in the furnace heat and_ levering around steel ingots, Mulhall was lured away by a circus. He fol lowed it to town, went into acting : seriously, made good in a stock company, and then went to New York, where he became a juvenile leading man. His last show there was with Ned Wayburn in “The Producer.” Then Grant Cootes, who illusmost of Harold Bell Wright’s novels, introduced Mulhall to a fellow-artist who was just then getting a bit of recognition as a movie scenarist, Rex Ingram. The scenarist, later to become a famous director, picked Mulhall as a winner and gave him a part in Hal Reed’s “Cold Cash.” Since those early days Mulhall has been consistently one of the most popular screen heroes. He has played opposite practically every famous star in the business, and is now more popular than ever because his fine voice boosts his stock in “the talkies.” Biography of DOT FARLEY Dot Farley, noted film comedienne, owes her success in many lines of stage work to the thing the modern girl is most afraid of—chubbiness. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on a certain May 27th, she literally burst into drama with comedy roles in high school playlets. Just as some girls find themselves typists or teachers, she found herself playing bits on the stage, in New York City. In stock and on the road, in vaudeville and repertory, and finally on the screen, Miss Farley continued to be a slightly weighty, delightfully funny comedienne, suited to her type of role by ability and by appearance. She is now constantly’ busy in film roles. The talkies brought her more popularity than ever, because her voice just matches her snappy personality. Cut No. 13 Cut 20c, Mat Sc