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Show rLittle Lord Fauntleroy" With Mary Pickford Today To-day at Alhambra I The thing that will probably Interest the public most about Mar Plckford's , Little L,rd Kaiintb-roy," which opens' jat the Alhambra thoatre toda, as the feature attraction Is not so much ihe fact that she p!ays a dual role in thla picture ;ip that Ihe takes the part 1 of a boy. Little Mary h:i played a dual rob: before In "Stella Marts" but this will be Ihe fir.-u time she has ever ap-peared ap-peared ;i boy throughout an entire photoplay While It la truo that she has worn masculine gar'o in some of her previous productions, ahe did so ;i- a girl masquerading as n boy for the moment only But in her film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's (Teat story. Mis Pickford Is constant-1- on the screen as Little Lord Fauntleroy Faunt-leroy or as his mother. In fact, much of the tlmo she is there both as the mother and the little lord, all by the aid of cleverly devised double exposure work of the cameraman, Charles Kosher. "There are many features,'' says H. E. Skinner, manager of tho Alhambra. 'that Indicate this not only 13 Mary Plckford's greatest photoplay but one of the most remarkable film plays ever ihown. Without a doubt the moit appealing story -r scrt i la rich In color and human fl W B 0 Mary depleting a Faunt who Is all i'r'" despite his curia le collars aid handsorrv velvsO For a dressed-up boy, he caii does get powerfully tnued n I IrneS) in ui ii t ' ! in1" ; .'-nt i .stern old grandfather and to the rin of his Idolizing mother." M The work Miss Pickford does flu il role j - i n. ;,i far tM of her career. Hor sTnpathsSJ terpretntion of the mother pas .startling contrast against her p9 of the boisterous. mr;ehlevoui exuberant boy It hardly seSH slide, . , members theatn Jtaff who ha'- viewed tbij that these two widely different el 'erizatlons could be avumed b and the same person. |