Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-07-04

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advantage is that we have had very
little traffic even with the postman,
or vice versa. He is not the one who
rang twice. He did bring in one useful
contrivance, however. 1t is a blotter
from the Willard Hotel, useful because
it has on it calendar for July, a
calendar being about as close as this
department ever gets to knowing what
time it is.
He also brought a card which is
going to serve as further ammunition
in our little battle with Ray Bell of
Loew's about the current movie sit
uation. Every time we let slip even
an off-hand remark that Hollywood
is not turning out as many good films
as it should Mr. Bell let's out war
whoop. Neutrality-suspicious. is a
large studio and it is as sensitive as
it is large. So Mr.. Bell always leaps
to its defense and alleges as how
there is not shortage of top-notch pic
lures coming out of M-G-M
Now the card we mentioned up
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and is the ballot sent out every month
to motion picture editors, that they
may select the best film of the month.
1t lists IS pictures released during
June, some of which never have seen
and never will see F. street, couple
OF which have rot arrived yet. But
of the IS only Blockade" Holiday
Lord jeff" and White Banners"
stand out. Add to that Three Com
rades," which number of people are
reported to have liked. and You and
Me" which comes to the Capitol Fri
day and which has Fritz Lang's direc-
ton to recommend it. and you still
have only six out of IS. It's a pretty
low batting average.
But mention the fact that a top
fllnf shortage is responsible for a
large number of reissues and Mr..
Bell will be up in arms. Undaunted
by the fact that the hits he tells you
about beforehand sometimes turn
out to be The Toy Wife" he will
maintain that M-G-M is turning out
pretty new celluloid by the mile and
does not have to resort to reissues.
The next attraction at LoeW's Co.
lumbia will be "A Mans Castle" 1t
stars Spencer Tracy and was made
in 1884
HIS probably is as good a time
and place as any to remind you
that Storm in Teacup" has stayed
on for a second week at the Little
Theater and to plead with you if
necessary to 60 down and see it. The
British do not always bring off screen
humor to the American taste. They
did it once with gay pleasantly en-
titled The Ghost Goes West" and
now in Storm in a Teacup" they
have done it again in the brightest
merriest tale to come across the seas
since Ghost"
They have made a warm, rich, hu-
man comedy out of the Storm Over
Patsy which the Theater Guild could
not quite make click on the stage
Storm in Teacup" is filled to the
brim with fun, not with brittle and
sophisticated artificial wit, but with
honest humor that makes for honest
and uproarious laughter.
1t is full of moments you will enioy
to the utmost and moments you will
want to see again. You will relish
every little bit of Sara Allgood's Dor.
trayal OF the poor woman whose PATSY
was carried off by the Bake officials
because she couldn't afford to pay the
dog tax. You will heartily join Rex
Harrison in his crusade as the reporter
who heckles the town provost into
complete rage and confusion because
the town will not give the dog back
to the woman You will we'll nigh
collapse. We warn you, when an at
torney attempts to explain to a Scot
fish judge the meaning of "Sez you'll
And you probably will want to joir
the campaign already started, to bring
Vlvlen Leigh to the United States.
IT you pass up Storm in Teacup''
you have no one but yourself to blame
for passing up one Of the brightest
moments of the cinema season.
A DDENDA:
White Banners" the film ver-
sion OF the Lloyd c. Douglas novel, in
which Miss Fay Banter and Mr..