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...together or separate, the chances of Alaska and Hawaii are dim for the foreseeable future; the steam has gone out of the statehood movement. Said California's Democratic Representative Clair Engle, an advocate of statehood, in opening the House debate: "If this legislation fails, it may postpone for many years, if not forever, the entrance of these incorporated territories as states-of the Union...
...asking President Eisenhower to release surplus food to China to relieve this famine. Many outstanding religious leaders in this nation support this program among whom are Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence; Edwin T. Dahlberg, former President American Baptist Convention; John Haynes Holmes, Minister Emeritus, Community Church, New York; Matthew W. Clair, Bishop, Methodist Church; and many others. The church at which I am minister has unanimously adopted a resolution supporting the Mass. Council of Churches in this matter, and many ministers I know personally are preaching sermons on this subject because they think it of prime importance...
...usual, made a handful of fine, original films. Jean Cocteau sent over, in Intimate Relations, what amounts to a formal photograph of an Oedipus complex: a devilish picture, devilishly well made. By contrast there was a flash of the old gaite parisienne in Beauties of the Night, by Rene Clair; and Jacques Tad, in Mr. Hulot's Holiday, composed something like a ballet of pratfalls. In Diary of a Country Priest, adapted from the novel by Georges Bernanos, the camera watched a body dissolve in spirit, while in Pit of Loneliness the spirit of a feeling woman was stifled...
...this theme with its own special brand of Satan lore, climaxed perhaps by the German Faust-legend. Beauty and the Devil, the latest restatement of the old tale, may be a corruption of previous interpretations, but it's probably just what one would expect from the French. Rene Clair's treatment of the story, at the Brattle this week, is as sparkling and stimulating to the audience as it is subversive to the tragic moral dilemma that earlier Fausts enacted...
Notwithstanding the movie's happy ending, in which a rejuvenated Faust regains his rather confused soul, the legend's new and lighter mood is due mainly to M. Clair's revolutionary conception of Mephistopheles. Played by Michel Simon, the Devil's agent now appears as a wonderfully impish, intriguing, and incompetent procurer of souls--sort of a dumb burglar on a metaphysical level. Faust himself capitalizes on Mephisto's bumbling diabolicalness to lead a love life that seems well worth anyone's soul. He is portrayed by Gerard Philipe with just the right combination of gallantry and naivete...