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...East of Eden" reminds you enough of adult westerns to make the transition easy. Its characters are the simple "morality play" characters of the Western put in situations where good and evil are hard to define, and only love wins...
...East of Eden" is a fine movie with which to begin the post-vacation term. Presumably the viewer has been softened-up with enough adult westerns and 21-inch-screen emotions to welcome Julie Harris, Burle Ives, Raymond Massey and even Jimmy Dean. Besides, it's all in technicolor and wide-screen, which is quite a treat at the Brattle...
...First, Labor's Hugh Gaitskell tried to turn Britain's recent financial settlement with Nasser into a formal censure of the 1956 Suez invasion, which he described as a "disastrous act of folly almost without parallel in our history." Nor was ailing Tory Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden alone to blame, he went on: "There were others involved, and they were not ill." Jabbing his finger at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Gaitskell cried: "I believe that the guilty men are sitting there on those benches. It is time that they were brought...
Macmillan, about to leave for his talks with Eisenhower, was in a confident, combative mood. Previously he had been guardedly correct about Suez; now, to thundering Tory backbench cheers, he declared: "I was one of Sir Anthony Eden's main supporters in his Suez policy. I am proud of it." He was "surprised" that Gaitskell should bring up the subject: "If everybody were to see again those hysterical broadcasts of his, they would have a shock." Sarcastically he taunted: "The Opposition's chief idea in a difficulty is to run away from it. The ostrich...
...Ronde Room pay off. One of the warmest winters in Florida's history has the Gold Coast awash with well-heeled vacationers, so everybody follows the trend to ever more expensive entertainment. From the Roney Plaza near the foot of the beach, north past the Versailles, the Eden Roc, the Sherry Frontenac and the Americana, all the way to the spanking new Diplomat, the competition rages. Cadillacs crowd the highways; minks and white fox stoles topped by teetering hairdos fill ornate halls such as the Eden Roc's Pompeii Room, which looks (in Comic Joe E. Lewis...