The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-09
{ Constance Bennett in Born to Love (
State Presents Great StAfl
 in Her Greatest Picture

"A great star in her greatest pie ture. That is the RKO Pathe pic- ture which came to the Warner Bros State theater for an engage ment of 4 days. Here is a story so stirring, so original, so dramatic that Constance Bennett and Direct or Paul L. Stein couldn't rest until it was in production. So entlrnsed was Ernest Pascal over the story's possibilities that he put aside the new novel he was writing and rushed to Culver City to do the screen play. They knew they had something. @s.A4
 Problem dramas have been done many times, but never like this one. Love or convention-Duty or love- mother love or the love of a woman for the man to whom she has given her body, her heart and her soul-- Constance Bennett as Doris Ken- dall has to make these choices. Ire mendous is a strong word but 1t is too weak for Born To Love.
 Bombs raining on London street from a Zeppelin overhead-sirens screaming women. shrieking - crowds scurrying to cover-a girl dragged to safety, sheltered by the body of man. That is the way Doris Kendall and Captain Barry London hospital, he an aviator back in London on leave. Both are Tanks a bit homesick -. eager for understanding compan- ionship. What more natural than that they should fall in love-? To marry was to separate. Captain Barry Craig and Doris Kendall wanted to marry. They loved each other desperately. But as the wife of an American officer she would be sent out of the war zone, thou sands of miles from him. And she wanted to be near him, as close as she could be always. It was their last night. The war had thrown them together, given them love. It was to tear them apart in the morning, perhaps forever. In such situation convention, man. made customs seemed small and unimportant.
 Doris Kendall loved Barry Craig so much that she was willing to defy convention and the creed of her kind for him. Colonel Sir Will fred Drake wanted Doris so badly that he was willing to marry her knowing that she was to become the mother of another mans son. Powerful love but there is another still stronger-mother love. They all conflict in Born To Love- -
 Armistice day in London. Big Ben striking the fateful hour of eleven. Blaring bands, shrilling whistles, milling crowds, flags, cheers-and white-faced girl standing alone, gazing at cross in her hand!
 Things seemed to be straightening out for Doris Kendall. She had a baby she adored, husband who was hero to be respected, a mem ory to cherish always. Then came 8 voice from the dead and her pain fully reared house of contentment crashed in ruins, levelled by the fierce flames of love that had not burned to ashes. <4s,
 When Doris Kendall accepted Sir Wilfred Drake's seemingly gener- ous offer to be a father of her un- born baby she could not foresee what a boomerang the arrangement would be-. When Sir Wilfred di- vorced Doris the court awarded him the custody of the child, she could not fight back for to do so would brand her son illegitimates ......s-..., :
 Here is situation that will bring tears to all eyes. A mother separ- ated from her baby son is to see him for the first time in three years. She hurries to the home of her estranged husband, g. little toy, tight in eager hands. She brushes past the somber faced husband. the only one she could afford. held rushes to the nursery to see tiny, still form covered by sheet. Her baby is dead.
 The picture ends on happy note