Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-10-29
It's an Actors Year
Despite Moss Hart
Critics Don't Know Acting, He Charges,
But They Are Happy to Find 1t
By Joy Cormody

Moss Hart the playwright drama critics
sevelest critic, is in another of his unamcable
These like old rheumatic pains they long
and Hart and the drama reviewers ready
on the part OF BOTH as 1t should be temperamenta tribes
live in peace.
Harris latest blast summed up his opinion that the aisle tter
really did not know much about play direction probably
intimaon did know
something Of paywritng, not admission 1t
auaes the critics as judges OF Harris major enterprise which
the writing of plays He is of director of hayward
blance and occasional journeyman actor Deane might
better describe his acting ventures.
It's Charge Heard Before
Judgment Judgment subjects
directing and acting is not
1t brought beoren fact it is hardly dropped
should usually marked by better timing
Right the reviewers in fairly good position to defend
themselves and find themselves supported by that most unlikely
professional groups the actors themselves.
the beginning of the the critics have done moth
ing but praise acting the single saving OF the aumn
have been quick and eaed to say So indeed they nave SAID
with such eoquence that their differences about the plays involved
have cut the stage right from under few great
They RECOGNIZED Edths Work
This most conspcuousy of Edith
Evans majestic display of talent in James M Brides Daphne
Laureoa This rated of the miracles unanimously So
wasted than evident the circumstance that
the production enters its last week today.
instances. home also helpful in rebutng
accusation Both visible the Gayety The first the
State which of Broadways de-
lights was one here IN its opening week by virtue OF celeste
comedy vuosity And merely Miss Homs but her
and Barbara ONe No one thought admrngy OF Louis YER
comedy felt hapsodc about the acting which
Hart reviewers do not understand.
Lillian Gs quite the redeeming influence in the
Patks 1.-The Courteous Savage but New York last
washington carrier praised SHINING
Torrance in otherwise fairly embarrassing comedy
might of that Hart will that all this rapture
the proof of the point he making
position would find himself supported by pair OF
playwright director chaps of Howard
Lindsay and Russell Grouse
Lindsay and Grouse Are liked Too
Lindsay and Grouse the authors of the book
Madam and the criticism eveed their contribution
amazing hit has found them UNDERSTANDABLE sensitive This gifted
pair who admire Ethel Norman their intensely
else from their heels this those critics
implying Miss Norman writes her along.
she ad Ibis her happy lines the esitters implying
what Lindsay and Grouse want
performance after performance This question
and Lindsay and Grouse glad they brought it up.
Yet the of the evidence falls the other
the critics about acting
this seasons plays; so far at least.
Critics Reuctont to Dismiss Huxley
Black Chiffon, the Leslie Storm melodrama which hang
Ing on nicely is success properly attributable
as the bewdeed kepomaniac
gets splendid support from others
Anthony Ireland Robert Christie Patricia Marmon-the
latter the pretty and gifted daughter
silent pictures
Most surprised and reluctant Of the judgments this
critics against playwright and rather
MS play is receiving is that THE Giaconda
ocit thing to of Adous Huxley the part
ADMIRERS that he was amateur dramatist imposing gifted
professional actors Basil Rathbone Valerie Hobson
In saying It, the reviewers adduced
that they know when acting paywritng may
not be enough to satisfy Moss Hart.
1t leaves the actors purring. however