Evening star., 1950-07-16
Week S Acting Honors
Go to the English
Guinness and Dame Edith Evans Score
Brilliantly on Pair of Local. Screens
By Joy Corniody

Guinness the English actor who has created the greatest
ore in this country since Laurence Olivier largely
hearsay in Washington until this week
His performance the mysterious srangerwho kind
Ihe Cocktail Party" by
washingonians constituted
the total local population however which left the
impact Of Actor Guinness largely verbal phenomenon until the
arrival of the film Kind Hearts aad Coronets.'
that sophisticated Guinness virtually explodes in
the face OF the community actor well might in the feat
Of playing eight roles in single film BY of nensng the
conclusion each of Guinness eight characters in the English
sceenpay ends To die dramatically that times
in the interval of less than hours unparalleled for
actor to call attention to himself.
Guinness who reminds physically Sighter Sir Ralph
Richardson makes That all of them
brs the duca family Ascoyne uses occasional family
resemblance in feature This however as close as Guinness
permits of his Ascone to OF the Others
Each stamped with his individuality This is feat
the portrayed by
three generations and eight social
spse sufragette austere and
full private banker young Edwardan who takes
up amateur photography because 1t PROVIDES MIN win 0af
have their equally special distinctions
Subty delightful carcature
expose the stuness of the Ascoynes which uses
and aspiring cousin to kill them in order TO win MS way
It is an acting tour de force which Guinness
among modernS has achieved
And Then There Is Dome Edith Eyons
performance every striking its different is
also the work of outstanding member of the English acting
aristocracy mpersonaon Woman of Dolwyn
by Dame Edith Evans To make acting masterpiece out OF
character whose major quality genius for
of the great feats of stage screen portraiture
village the OF simplicity She lives
herself whole force OF her quiet
bent making her life undra
matte. this becomes the whole enjoyable
of "The Woman of Dowyn."
But These Are the Best Of Eneonds Films
Any display of enthusiasm English English
pictures bot involves the the necessity
explain preference the
native professionals and product
Acute sensveness the injustice of this accusation has be-
occupational disease of film reviewers.
Quite unnecessarily perhaps they pointing the Eng
sh films they that audiences the
of the British Engands pictures the equivalent
the bulk Hywoods product not for the export trade
home consumption and almost the light of
American movie theater protector.
practice of distributing only the best British films this
country finding audience for them in art theater
superficial that they
preferred Hoywoods workers That is not the
case into admiration for
acting of Guinness and Dame Edith Evans.
Vocation Memo to Harry Macarthur
AS at this time of correspondent taking
for New England usual rather dumping
his work into steadily time the
dodrumS settling and daily columns
Even usual the departing correspondent thinks
help out by writing perhaps Sunday column the
New England After ALL Oney
the center of dramatic art It should
material for few reports to the department back
Should be easy? AS both of well
Through the of the
that little nuggets thus collected always stored the
traveller against the first few columns after his