O cine.... matters -By VIRSINIAWRISHT Drama Editor BEGINNING their fifteenth year, Columbia Pictures Corp. -. prepares to release the greatest production in its history, Frank Capra's Mr. Smith. Goes to Washington,"1 and the day of the preview of that picture Frank . Capra prepared to go into business for him-, self-. -1 ; Yesterday, ...vyith writer. Robert Riskin and attorney Loyd Wright, he filed articles of incorporation in Sacramentofor the $1,000,-X)00;F!rank Capra product' tions. Last night at Pannages the picture-was shown which s he ' hopes may intensify and confirm a prideful : consciousness of what' being an American entails in - sence." - Extravagant praise is all .that I can think of now for . Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." It is the perfect American propaganda film, -.fearless in its expose of the corrupt forces that might destroy, the freedom of our -government, fearless, in its attack on any press that would withhold the truth. - - Only in these United States . could such -insinuations be made with impunity, and ...only Frank Capra could make them in a comedy. For Mr. Smith Goes to 'Washington?, is -brilliantly amusing. It presents a pride of Country amidst typically ' American self conscious laughter. Its flag waving is , of the most subtle kind, be-cause it makes you laugh. The film's dramatic structure is a perfect piece of craftsmanship. The story of an innocent among the politicians never falters for a moment It gathers speed and momentum all along the way until it bursts into the rousing crescendo of .a 72 hour filibuster on' the stable floor, as Mr. Smith, Xfrione, crushes a corrupt political machine that has flourished throughout the land for 20 years. DOtt the last few years Jimmy A Stewart has been wavering on the edge of the Ideal screen role. He has found it now In the character of Jeff 1 Smith, the leader of the Boy Rangers who suddenly finds himself appointed to the senate to fill a vacancy. Aa tha idealist face to face with the great monuments of Washington, and carried off his feet with excitement; aa the dupe of reporters, and the laughing stock of the senate, aa the enthusiastic promulgator of a bill f or a boys camp, and as the disillusioned dreamer who leans that there are powers greater than the vote of the people, he is in perfect stride. , But once his ire is up, and he learns enough about tha rules of order to stand up in his own defense against tha framed evidence against him, ha exceeds in power anything he has done on the screen before, That filibuster acena li a magnificent blend of humor, pathos and tense excitement,." - Jean Arthur, too, aa the wise capitol secretary who la first bored with her Don Quixote senator, then drunkenly sorry for him, and finally his teacher In all the senate tricks, is In her element, and a distinct addition to the-proceedings. -There are also many fine momenta, in the part of Claud Rains, aa tha distinguished, ambitious Senator Iine, caught in the wheels of a crooked political machine. Guy Klbbee Is the flurried governor who must replace a dead senator -with a safe. Incurious man and gets, instead, a passionate crusader. Edward Arnold, aa the corrupt publisher and party -boss, who backs the grafting appropriations bill, and hires Eugene Pallette, a ward boas, to keep Senator Smith from prying, la also an Integral part of this penetrating study of democracy at work, aa- are Harry .Carey, the vice president, and Thomas ltchclL a correspondent. 1 -into