Mill Valley Cultural Arts Umbrella

By Mark Sober,

Just a friendly last-minute reminder about the first of our election year “specials” (The Candidate” shows in October):

(Hopefully, there’ll be a good discussion after; in response to my Facebook invtation I received a note from a local writer who plans to come because he wants to see if he still hates Mr. Smith…!!)

FILMTALK, Wheeler Auditorium, Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St.

• June 14   10AM - - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

In their second collaboration (after 1938’s You Can?t Take It With You), director Frank Capra and star James Stewart create the character of Jefferson Smith, an altruistic, naïve small-town newspaperman who becomes an erstwhile Senator forced to deal with corruption in politics. The film received an Academy Award (Best Original Story), a New York Film Critics Circle Award (Best Actor), and was placed on the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry in 1989. (USA, 1939, 130 min., b&w)

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By Denny Lynch 

The letter from the office of the Mayor of Paris (Marie de Paris) arrived at my house in Hampden a few weeks before I mounted my photography exhibition in the City of Light.

I had invited Mayor Bertrand Delanoe to my opening on March 12 at the American Library in Paris. The brown envelope, which the letter arrived in, was marked urgent and was addressed to Monsieur Denny Lynch. Well, I thought to myself, it is only natural that the Mayor of Hampden extend an invitation to the Mayor of Paris.

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Hampden metal sculptor and member artist, Jim Pollock, with some of his work at “Found Objects: New Beginnings, The Art of Trash” at the Baltimore Public Works Museum, located at 751 Eastern Ave. (Pier 7 at Inner Harbor). This exhibit features Jim’s bicycle chain and wrench Crabs, the ‘Banjo Player’, above him his ‘Upside-Down Barn Stormer’, and his ‘Flute Player’ to the right.  This show runs from June through October.  Details: 410-396-1509.