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Show Dolores Costello f Barrymore Returns .Tauntleror" Co-Stars Her. H:. With Freddie Bartholomfew 'fe Dolores Costello Barrymore makes ber return to the screen after four years' absence, sharing stellar honors ! with Freddie Bartholomew In Selz-nick Selz-nick International's "Little Lord Fauntleroy," which plays Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, June 21, 22 v and 23, at the Cameo Theatre. The star, who has added her re- cently divorced husband's name to her own, plays 'Dearest,' the beauti ful and adored young mother of Ceddie Errol, the little American boy who becomes Lord Fauntleroy, in this f llmization of the world famous Frances Hodgson Burnett story which marks the first independent production of David O. Selznick. Freddie, of course, plays the title role. The familiar story, which Hugh Walpole, distinguished novelist, a-dapted a-dapted to the screen, is laid in the America and England of 1885 and depicts the softening influence of Fauntleroy's devotion upon his irascible old grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt. "Menace" Appears When the death of the Earl's third son makes Ceddie his heir, the Earl takes the boy into Dorincourt Castle, but refuses to recognize 'Dearest,' the penniless American girl whom his son had married against his wishes. However, just when the transformation transfor-mation of the old Earl is complete, his new-found happiness is threatened threat-ened by the appearance of a woman who claims that her son, an unpleasant unpleas-ant brat, is the rightful heir. This situation has the effect of bringing the old Earl and 'Dearest' together, and the story ends happily with Ceddie's right to the title of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" definitely established. C. Aubrey Smith plays the Earl, Guy Kibbee and Mickey Rooney, are seen as Ceddie's American friends, Mr. Hobbs and Dick, the bootblack, and Henry Stephenson plays Havi-sham, Havi-sham, the Earl's lawyer. Others prominent in the cast are E. E. Clive, Una O'Connor, Jackie Searl, Ivan Simpson, Jessie Ralph and Constance Con-stance Collier. |