Theatre: New Play

The Right to Love.

In a theatre in which every other seat was vacant, presumably to accommodate those who were beside themselves with the heat, The Right to Love was presented to a few late-season audiences lured in by a poster which stated: "Mary Barton says—It is the God-given right of every woman to have at least one child without any questions asked." They found that this Mary Barton, who kept an informal hostelry at Falls City, Md., had tested her hypothesis by bearing an illegitimate lad who, being naive as well as natural, supported her contention by never asking who his...

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