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Show im OF W GILBERT PARKER'S F11S IE At Utah Theatre Splendid Offering Skeptical though wc are at the real artistic possibilities, the serious dramatic dra-matic possibilities the avorage motion picture inclines us to believe the screen possesses, "The Right of Way," plcturlzation of Sir Gilbert Parker's cri-eatest noval. with Bert Lytcll as the star, when it showed last evening fit the Utah theater, forced us to realize real-ize that film producers are at last striving for and, in this case, attaining attain-ing tho heights. It is superb. And at tire very beginning be-ginning must bo mentioned the re-lnarkablo re-lnarkablo characterization of Charley Steele, as done by Mr. Lytcll. In this picture the star's part Is as utterly different from his last as one could Imagine. Wo refer to "Lombard!. Ltd.," where Lytell was tho unworldly, impulsive, gifted designer of women's clothes. How radically unlike Charley Char-ley Steel in "The Klght of Way." For in ihe Parker story he is' a young lawyer law-yer dashing, dissolute, spectacularly gifted as a barrister, yet endowed with a singular compelling magnetism, magnet-ism, which wins over not only tho Jury' in the big courtroom scene, but later draws a somehow unwilling, promise from Kathleen to marry him. The long training and tho real achievement achieve-ment of Mr. Lytell's caroor shows In this trying part. It Is not ousy to be I at once cynical, atheistic, wholly solf- centcred and self-satisfied and at the same time command sympathy ,and friendliness. Yet tho star hasjdono both with an amazing ease an(hconVIc tion. " , to No little credit belongs to the sup- H porting cast. As Rosalie, the second f ! woman in Steele's vivid career, Lea:- J . rice Joy gives a performance that I ' charms. Virginia. Caldwell, as Kath- , ; leen, displays real dramatic talent. Equally praiseworthy is the work of ! Gibson Gowland, Antrim Short, Henry Harmon, Frank Currier, Carmen PrIl- lips and Larry Steers. "- The artistry of tho entire production produc-tion reflects tho touch of Maxwojl Kargcr, director general, and tho capable ca-pable direction of Jack Dillon; and Robert Kurrle's photographic effects were remarkable even in this day of almost perfect cinematography. Tho dramatic merit in Juno Mathis' adapta- I tion and Scenario also deserve especial I montion, not forgetting the aimusing J Sunshine comedy. S |