Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
The Curtain Falls
On q One-Mun Show
5O-Yeor Command of Universal Audience
Was q Truly Oynpion Performance
By Joy Cormody

They wrapped up Bernard Shaw in uncouned obituary
was admiration as betted writer who had been given
years talk back to world which fascinated him and which
he in turn, fascinated
Nevertheless. the gigantic audience behind be
long time summing the life and work Of the widest rsman
In the whole gallery of hayward Celts
In life. Shaw chance to judge him with
hnay although he stopped challenging aen
ton Until the last few days of his life inteec
tua motion He was the speaker who stopped talking
the writer who never stopped writing the genius of his time for
keeping the rest OF humankind of balance
The quantity of his mental energy great that
ever had chance to truly and deeply contemplate the quality
Every had Shaw' judgment of himself that he
of the worlds great neec to enough
It was one more Of those beliefs he expressed which no one ever
believed that he really meant He always something Of the
comic shman who entered all the side that seemed
Only politics worlds front
in the turbulent history years
the goth century Even these could crowd him OF entirely
In two sentences deemed worth typographical
accent box at the top OF column he could steal
almost any days show from any days war;
This showmanshp and wherever ends.up among
dramatss novess poemicss other lists Of his "a
looking and listening and loving often spite
itself He would not want to be remembered beloved
type which he coined sharply and often in his plays but
that would be Shavian jest of wonderfully onc proportions
No one had better to be delighted by shaw show
than the drama critics the 90s brilliant
most Of the sron he found the business ntoSeh Ss @
like It, he decided the only honorable thing do write
plays which were worthy OF the theater magic hold the
years the theater 1t, he held uni
versal audience captive.
Regardless what later. Judgment
Shaw this
being. this is sufficient.
A super-SpecioI From Hollywood
will be great day it when Hollywood
the charges Of nfantism myth repetition deuge
adult and realistic screenplays.
In the meantime 1t extraordinarily
such film to and to be delighted by.
Such a picture is Cali About which merely
radical departure from the pattern Of Holywoods
happily the boxoce attraction among
film releases Joseph Mankewc who wrote directed this
satcal comedy about backsage life along Broadway wildly
impressive in this snang rebual that Hollywood
to be grownup.
That he being the
who stopped to the movies is almost All
Eve Nothing could be encouraging producers
enough to break with formula inspiring studio
ves who have held their creators under
Its Downright Attack Tradition
There is special quality of drama in GAIL About Eve"
external value It's theme has been used in countless
pictures In fact the type another of life theater
the most hackneyed products of the studios
1t is the treatment that is different Heretofore group
earyeyed hacks have told endless number of sentimental
stories about actresses actors singers comedians dancers
Not Mankiewicz struck him
ought to tell the unvarnhed truth about really
That what he has done the of the two
Eve And about the director the playwright playwghts
who make up this magic world.
BY getting off the beaten path of movies Mankiewcz
huge newly enthusiastic audience beating path
Offices.
This merit alone might inspire Overwhelming vote
the Academys choice the
other and usual merits well makes pretty pre-
dcton at this point