Evening star., 1936-12-19
Picking 10 Best Films
Too Easy to Be Sport
More Amusement to Be Had From Recalling
Numerous Good Pictures and Diverting
Incidents of the Year 1886.

the road to a comeback for Harold
Lloyd, and a right rosy path at that.
Soak the Rich" Full of impudent
remarks by Mr.. Ben Hecht and Senor
Charles Macarthur. and containing
an unforgettable bit of work by Lo-
mel Stander as Muglia. the man who
thought what this world needed was
blowing up with dynamite, not free
air..
THE Trail OF the Lonesome Pine"
In which Fuzzy Knight sang Stack
OLee" so well that most OF the Gus
toners forgot they were seeing an
outdoor picture done in color.
Mary Of Scotland" Like Scotland,
primarily notable for its battlements
and bagpipes (oh, well. mention that
stuff that comes in bottles II YOU
musD, but also a score on the credit
sheet for Fredric March.
"Winterset" Which left out the
entire point of the stage play, turned
a sociological document into q melo-
drama, and was received with screams
of praise from almost every Aim critic
in the land. No paltry trick. that
Captain January" "Dimples" and
any other Shirley Temple pictures.
Proving that Duse and Bernhardt had
relatively no box-office appeal. Some
people are beginning to call Miss Tenn.
pie the special names reserved for pre-
cocious children. but it must be said
that her pictures are always clean
and usually fun, and she herself re.
mains miraculously unaffected.
Adolphe Menjou as q slug-nutty
matinee idol in Sing, Baby, Sing"
musical film whose director had
looked up the meaning Of the word
satire
Robert Donat in The Ghost Goes
West" which only proved that the
best diction Of the day may also be
combined with a gusty sense of hui
NOR.
Rev Ingram as DE Lsvd" in
Green Pastures" an extremely diff
cult task which this colored actor
approached with all reverence and
sincerity. in turn rewarded with pop
ular acclaim.
Humphrey Bogart in "The petrifed
Forest Leslie Howard and Bette
Davis were there too, but 1t was not
hard to forget them after Mr.. Bogsrt
walked onto the scene.
Carol Lombard at her peak (what-
ever that Isl as the dizzy Irene in
My Man Godfrey
Warner Baxter and Myrna Low put.
ting over the years ripest sentiment
tality in TO Mary-With Love-" and
making you like it.
Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and
Joel McCrea playing the bovdlerized
version of The Childrens Hour" with
such integrity that it achieved all the
tense and tragic effect of the original.
The screen play was called These
Three"
A P. G. Wodehouse story called
"Piccadilly jim whooping up terrific
pace as film comedy, with Eric Blore
laying em in the sisles with one Of
his infallible impersonations of a
daffy butler, Robert Montgomery get.
ting the first sympathetic role allotted
him in months and Frank Morgan.
Madge Evans and an absolutely per.
feet supporting cast doing the auxili.
AIRY honorS.
Eleanor Powell in Born to Dance
which went down in our books as the
biggest disappointment of the year
because Miss Powell had only a single
decent dance number. The story was
more like a nightmare than q drama
script, and la belle Eleanor could DO
a thousand times better If given Q
chance.
(P. S. Kindly address all arguments
and complaints to the Good Will
Court, pronounced See-moan See
moan)