JavaScript object: access variable property by name as string [duplicate]

If I have a javascript object that looks like below

var columns = {
  left: true,
  center : false,
  right : false
}

and I have a function that is passed both the object, and a property name like so

//should return false
var side = read_prop(columns, 'right');

what would the body of read_prop(object, property) look like?