ARCADIA PICTURES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 5 February 1923, Page 1

ARCADIA PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT. MARY PICKFORD. LITTLE LORD FANTLEROY. Miss Pickford Uses Great Care to Get Proper People to Portray Parts At no time in her career has Mary Pickford given more care to the I choosing of a cast or to the assembi ling of suitable types than for her I next United Artists film offering, I “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” which will be the feature at the Arcadia Theatre beginning Monday, for two nights only. The leading character role that of the gouty and irrascible old Earl of Dorineourt, is played by Claude Gillingwater, footlight veteran whose most recent success was as the grouch in ‘Three Wise Fools.’ Mr Gillingwater has many other triumphs to his credit, having been on the speaking stage for more than twenty-five years. This represents his first venture in pictures. Joseph Dowling, who registered the pinnacle of cinema fame in “The Miracle Man,” is playing the part of Havisham, the dignified, understanding and shrewd solicitor whose analytical mind does much to help solve the great difficulty which forms the climax of the story. Those three loveable characters, the grocer, the applewoman and the bootblack, are portrayed in their respective order by James Marcus, Kate Price, and kYed Malatesta, Marcus played Hobbs, the grocer in the original Fauntleroy east on the stage in 1888. Kate Price is recognised as one of the greatest delineators of Irish character parts on the screen. As the mother in Mary Pickford’s “Amarilly of, Clothesline Alley” she was a tremendous hit; 'She also appeared in Miss Pickford’s last production, “Through the Back Door;” also with Douglas Fairbanks as Mrs Canby in “Arizona.” The Lasky. features that Kate Price has appeared in are far too many to enumerate, and she was one, of the first stage actresses to take up picture work. Fred Malatesta has shown to splendid advantage in the following features: “The Mask,” in the part of Enrico Korala, for First National; “Big Happiness,” as Raoul Bergerac, for Robertson-Cole; ‘The Sins of Ros anne,” in the role of Revanal, a" Lasky play. Malatesta is expected to give an excellent impersonation of the Italian bootblack who was one of the New York cronies of the little Lord. Dose Dione will play Minna, the adventuress who challenged Lord Fauntleroy’s claim to the title. Miss Dione has done excellent character work in many productions; most conspicuous perhaps are “Suds” in which she played Mme. Didire; Goldwyn’s ‘The Great Lover,” in which she interpreted the role of Mme Sabatini; ‘T‘he World and Its Woman,” where she took the part of Irena. The role of The Stranger, husband of the adventuress, will be taken by Arthur Thalasso, who will be remembered for his work as Joe Sylva in Allan Dwan’s “Forbidden Thing;” also as Svengali in Lasky’s “A Dollar-a-Year Man.” Miss Pickford’s custodian of personal wardrobe Mme Bodamere who began her picture carper in “Through the Baek Dood” will have very good part in ‘Little ord Fauntleroy.” She will be Mrs Higgins peasant woman and mother of a brood of twelve children. Bevis the scapegoat son of the Earl will be, portrayed by Colin Kenny whose excellent work added much to the “Tarzan” stories. Kenny also won honors for himself as the dope fie.nd in Goldyn’s all-star picture, “The Girl from Outside.” As the minister who pleads for the welfare of the Earl’s tenants, Emmett King who has appeared with such stars as Pauline Frederick, Zazimova and Mildred Harris is ex-

pected to give a convincing and sympathetic interpretation. Much human interest will be added to this elaborate Pickford play by the appearance of a very beautiful St Bernard’s dog named Douglas, as the constant companion for Little Lorfi Fauntleroy in Dorineourt Castle Matinee will he held on Tuesday afternoon.