Evening star., 1951-10-14
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
Pictures Excel Stars
In Crowd-Appeol
Glamour Callers Have Less Impact
Than q Series of Sound Movies
By Joy Cormody

It was charming eecfyng have Elizabeth Taylor
Debbe Reynolds and the other hm celebrities In town Tor the
kickoff of "Ndovietime. u S. A."
They dramatic picture talking to President Harry s.
Don't think the movies which have
not there to take it, So the newspaper
photographers the evion although the latter
are supposed re the enemy
It was hing like old times moving pictures
only instead OF skterng constantly through the very air
Even before away apparent
found esewheren the weeks pictures Here where
the merit Of the dusy bid for lay not in the The ea
"A Streetcar Named Desire "The Day the Earth Stood STILL
Saturdays Hero" and 'The Wooden Horse"
They Even Have Variety in Themes
There powerful attraction these and variety too and
suddenly there not Western the whole lot Of weeks
attractions latter itself something great virtue
indicating did at least partial recovery from the indusys
obsession that it should get horse
the Sun" the real bombshen of the week
following within few days the appearance "A Sretcar Named
Desire" box-ofhce
is film which embraces only
American Tragedy but the additional drama
of being work which the treat without its old
soened the social criticism of Dreers
work in some respecsh is true that the common man has
discovered his political in the last several decadesbut not
the particular excitement of George Easmans case history
still young caught in forces that lead
him remorseess underved fate and he hero of re
excitement duards with which the movies
have been wont to deal.
Stevens Wdens His Admrine Circle
George Stevens long professions admatons
director should achieve something of the prestige
with far wider public in "A Place in the Sum- He has told
by Dreisers classic performances
principals Montgomery Cliff Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Tay
The impact Of these the public might suggest to
the dustys reaconay producers that the time to give
the chance that fear heretofore
denied them would be OF satisfying the ghost OF
Dresser it happens to be hanging around the premises
Streetcar Named Desire" film of equivalent wallop
testified emphatcay in the admission from
critics that its merits outshne those of the original The
ssonsment this the greater for the earlier feeling that this
daring tempt Hollywood. 1t turned out
that Hollywood quite Williams the
playwright who tells eloquey the tragic of Blanche
Du Bois.
Apart from vivien Leigh the of the heroine the
directed makes whose
brance unchallengabe Marion Brando Kim Hunter and
Karl Maiden that deeply testing play with
Miss Leigh in the highest moments of of her peo
Forth Gets Violent Scodne
Although sometimes logically full of holes through which
could fly ship "The Earth Stood St
OF the happiest of entertainment the has offered
It's drama lies the fact that offers eahbound
fantastic estimate Of themselves by the distant
planet.
Snug humanity it, of by Spaceman
Klaatu has STRIPPING The
fact that humanity when Kaatu finishes
the other civilized
which hate to bump off denquents without warning them
Fantasy common and comedy neatly mixed in
this could ask Moreover the background
petey Washington which additional shudder KaatuS
warning that had better reform.
THE Wooden Horse" is not Hollywood exhibit, but it is
happy English ally movie industry to lure back
its lost audience 1t agonzngy suspensefu meodrama
escape from German but with Of ghtness
to keep the tension bearable.
1t belongs beautifully Of pictures calculated to
show that movies indusrys
pubc's old Deep affections.