Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
The Passing Show
The Passing Show
Pupil, Master Clash
And Both Are Losers
Neither Hitchcock Nor Former Aide
At Best in Lotest MeIodron1os
By Jay Cormody

One lfes most dramatic conicts-ttle conhcis that
between masters and pupils
usually that these most exciting as when
old champion displaced by some muscular upsar to whom
teaching points OF
tennis ai alai or driving troting horses
is less widely recognized that the master-pup ra-
onshp exists also IN the teater ana MOVIES perhaps because te
competition less direct Here masters and pupils do not meet SO
does happen however; in fact happening
on two movie screens in Washington.
Miss Harrison Leomed Masters Methods
conflict Alfred Hitchcock and Joan Harrison
and mystery in movies Miss
magic by shriveed
OF movgoers all the world An neigen girl can
obervant few she went out to test the tricks she
had learned
Last week for the first time Washington
Harrison pictures turned simultaneously giving admirers OF
both chance to make the dramatically direct comparison
Well, quite unlike that which the sports
writers are so delighted to record Miss
Each has produced interesting picture because
they interesting craftsmen but neither has achieved
good
Hitchcock Goes for BedozzIement
The Hitchcock ceenpay sangers on Train made here
and in Hollywood and Miss Harisons Circle OF Danger which
from the producers native England
Actually while neither represents the best work of its
the masterpupl conflict ends with wide margin in favor OF
Hitchcock He dazzling pictorial display in strangers
Train In truth the display is so dazzling that the director
he telling In other words the total is less than the sum
Of its parts
No man Cor woman either, excite
normally undamatc backgrounds and humans than
atmosphere of deserted railroad station
with the cacke of excitement and overlap the blank stare OF
strangers Train add up to much less than the sort
movie Hitchcock has taught his public to expect
Miss Horrisons Method Is Queter
Circle of Danger in for such pictorial
pyrotechnc number of the tricks she learned
find something of the fas
cnatng represent background in
coal miner in Wales contribute
a bit film flash of ootage Or waiter
great trick of putting human interest
into film many Harrison learned from the
master.
Yet in the case of pictures representing them
both forgot bascay important ngregent Of good m
a credible story.
An Outsider SteoIs the Show
not the only dramatic trick
stes represented the display. considerably
less pulled the neatest
trick Rowland hardly known outside the
immediate associates -Goldwyn-Mayer (WHICH
by the way, neither Goldwyn Mayer.
Rowland the who directed Excuse My Dust shy,
pleasant which stars of all performers
Red Shelton Shelton frankly impossible associate with shy
anything highly charged be thought of in such
terms but Excuse My the best Shelton film must
full star.
Against turn century background small Indiana
town plays Of his time alone IN the
invent gasmobie The idea OF 1t all to
harassed md2oh century humanity back to the charm OF
the 10Th centurys twilight. .e.ss
works-lke charm. What's more it may start a charm
which resemble that succession OF stage hits which
has along since "Oklahoma!