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Show 'Little Boy Lost' Now Playing In Pi. Grove A warm compelling human drama is enacted in "Little Boy Lost," Paramount's brand new Bing Crosby starrer which opened Thursday at the Grove Threatre. Told in subtle and poignant terms by producer-director team William Will-iam Perlberg and George Seaton, "Little Boy Lost" is adult entertainment enter-tainment at its very best. It is the kind of film that audiences audi-ences will lose their hearts to. "Little Boy Lost" is the story of a newspaperman, Bing Crosby, and his long search for the son he has never known . . . the little boy who had vanished amidst the chaos of war-torn France. While working as an American correspondent on assignment in Paris before the war, Crosby had married a .beautiful French girl. At the birth of their child Bing was sent to England and they were separted. His wife remained in France and joined the underground. under-ground. Not long later she was discovered and executed by the Gestapo. As soon as world conditions permitted. Bing launched a seai'ch for his lost son, but to no avail. Years later, a friend, Claude Dauphin, Dau-phin, gives him hope by tracking down a small clue to the boy's whereabouts. Bing is naturally apprehensive and when he actually does come face-to-face with the boy, there is vast doubt in his mind as to the child's true indentity. In proving that the youngster is really his lies the great drama and heart appeal of "Little Boy Lost." In "Little Boy Lost," Bing Crosby reportedly takes a complete com-plete change of pace, the film gives giv-es him a waim, wonderful story to work with and surrounds him with some of the most exciting new film faces the scl-een has offered of-fered in a long time. Producers Perlerg and Seaton went to Europe Eur-ope to make the greater part of the picture because the story is set in France and they wanted to get the true atmosphere and color of the locale. |