Evening star., 1950-03-19
Goyety's S Second Play
AI|udes to Life Here
But Goodbye, Ny Fancy Still Leaves
That Woshinqton Play UnWritten
By Joy Curmody

Among rtants the legitimate thea
ter is that gets real play about life Washington
S city n world and heaven
knows OF its most arcuate classes is its writing
What typewrers
eloquent citizens however play Newspaper
banner lines magazine articles and sometimes whole issues Of
magazines yes Endessy yes
seller dramatic novel which atful craftsman might remold
into a shape suitable for the stage
This nexpcable thing and play producers had not
susceptible caouses in the right spots who
problems they might have become to their PSYCHE
artists?
There attempts Washington play"
Nothing of them litter the attic, of
Illustration and nourhment for generations of rodent
Otherwise the best that has out all this effort
comedy ades musical like I'D Rather Right"
New Deal days 1.-TWO Blind Mice mild farce of last
few abusive plays, the kind that make somewhat pass
Girls" naughty joke amour these
Yesterday another and much popular variation Of
comedy value. but political glamour irresistible
Carson Kanin. He wife
Gordon considerable time during the
them ideas Not knowledge of life here in its Deep def
mite but the idea for a clever comedy.
The fact that the of this inspired another
svsons to Washneton This was eoodbv NV Fancy which
will its first Washington Tuesday night
the New aayety.
It has been quite hit everywhere else and with Faye
Stoddard adoit supporting should
here.
It is nothing in its dsfavor that goodbye My Fancy" is
remote its reference the local At least its heroine
congresswoman glamorou just happens that for
play working but back
class reunion oldest and sacred
the womens colleges Mount Hoyoke Or Wellesley Smith
Mawr show known aumna of all i've
and will play no favorites.
1t there that she the emotona-moral
Of life and spirit of lively, sophisticated
comedy.
Washington only indirectly involved
that playwright
directly that
here
There not much question in the minds of local movie
consistently director
inescapabe choice Carol of Third
has followed closely his Fallen Idol"
No has comparable artistic stature at the moment
and Reeds is the dramatic for his with
making art" movies His pictures become works of by in
direction by being profoundly with being life
everybody lives it.
Reed Graham Greene latter author of pic
find their the unheroic
Fallen Idol this boy of The third
focal character dumb laundering writer of cowboy fiction
caught in the dissolute wh of life in Vienna.
Neither could have been wisely realistically
1t is Reeds theory that life
poignant in being like that.
The moviegoers who with him constitute about the
largest body Of loyal moviegoes to be found anywhere
No will know until Friday Just
Academy OF Arts and Sciences
Yet is entitled to make lasmnute fact 1t
is challenge that always irresistible followers
of quality in Holywood's wares including this
AS to best picture this departments A the Kings
Men, with Broderck Crawford the probable choice
Heress"
1t is interesting that matter correctly Academys
decisions previous
awards they always the clmactic prizes
This is because reflect the ndusys judgement
its best work