Evening star., 1948-06-13
The Clair Touch Again
Greatest of Comedy.Fa able. Fantasy Men
Is Back in His Own Best Form
By Jay Carmody

One If the hest stories out of Hollywood
e. The director and the was one Of those
things employer and empoye who had
disagreed on virtually everything
The adeu things should designed to be spoken
graciouness Up to point this is what actually
had Clair with the company the
director shot back:
"on my part I've enjoyed being with 18th century-Fox"
repartee that he and Hollywood should
mart copany certainly whole Of movie
making ENJOYS an equal prestige as the most
discerning minds without the cinema industry both here
Europe touch" that rated above that OF the
both more imaginative despite the fact that he Lbtsch
touch" has been more widely puoiiczeo
Praise Grierson.
The sharpest comparison perhaps that Of John
eron who before he became documentary
voc one m the cnemas most percepiye and eloquent
finest recent volume on world MOVIES
" nv half dozen directors make personal
work which recognizable unique Rene Clair is one He may not
be as solid performer slick Lubtsch nu
something new and nne ana Ills o" W
stands as high He has OF fantasy ana 1ay
tale tumble and sight together to make crazy quit
of good sense and he is, above all. French 49,
of direction begin to think nat tnee are
only two directors Clair himself and Luoscn
J,h nerhans has an advantage on the big SETS
the out of crowd or build
up a sequence tenement detail like Clair And IN lkns ms nee
he has the unique distinction OF ns nem al
equally artists apaches policemen or te'es OF
duns, moral or not ... =.
their work Iubitsc the superior OF Clair the
uperaivey This Lubtschs ability 10 take
pictures were sufficiently those In his native creative @ 10
geography Of his work less important 1aco0r " IL w
Glars
Form
That Clair superior when working on his native
and mieu visible on the local
scene in his latest production "Sience Is Golden"
AS the choice Film Fair delegates as the
worlds best picture Silence Golden come as sur
nrise even delighted by Its Vd VIII anu
stfnes In terms sgncance has 1t has not the
fantest purpose illumination OF contemporary
life elements somewhat vital IN the choice OF
pictures this country.
On the contrary Golden" is reworking OF theme
naive beautiful girl VINO becomes
of all mpossibly joking things, his ward.
Anv one who to death guilty
of ridiculous There times IN Glars ueatneht Oh ~
when 1t seems it dealt with before
This because apt Clair mas power OF
fantasy fairy tale" in his work.
Love Tender and Amusing
Certainly that Silence Is Golden his WORK
True it has star and beautiful MaceAe
Derren lovely exposivey wu heroine but most OF
all it has directed it, but he also wrote the screen
story and produced the film
He has merely touching, tender story OF roantc
love- aghabe joke about the same human emo
ton the best Of which that Chevae
bound by honor to treat her as 1t never
has been his female the Of S
It's not to increase ones adaton
and Clair at the expense of Hollywood
Grierson "he is, above ALL FTencn
might he is spiritually at home only IN his native
land working nationals theme that no one sees
with gayety The important thing that
he shall make pictures, regardless of all else