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...would stay. Some seemed to think it was all something of a lark. Said one clergyman to a colleague as he stepped off the plane in Montgomery: "Fix bayonets! Charge!" Also on hand were secular crusaders, including Mrs. Paul Douglas, wife of Illinois' Democratic Senator, Mrs. Harold Ickes, widow of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, and Mrs. Charles Tobey, widow of the former Republican Senator from New Hampshire...
...York's hottest attraction turns out to be a greeting-card salesman named Harry (Glenn Ford). Evie looks at him and feels reckless. He looks at her and decides that she is nothing to write home about. Besides, he already has more than one postmistress. Engaged to a widow in Altoona (Angela Lansbury), he has just ended an affair with Artist Patricia Barry, and is warmly entreating the blonde (Barbara Nichols) at the hotel newsstand to be his "secret pal" for the night. The blonde agrees...
Afterward Harry hates himself, but Evie, when she learns of it, seems to like him even better. He invites her down to the Village to see a flat he has rented for the widow, and of course she thinks it is for her. When she finds out it isn't, she begins to cry. Harry suddenly notes that Evie is not simply one of those eccentric biddies that you hate to sit next to on a plane. She is-well, a person. A real person. Back at the hotel several scenes later, their hands touch to the accompaniment...
...accurately, Zorba invites himself with his usual impulsiveness and the Englishman accepts with an impulsiveness which is most unusual for him. Zorba meets an aging French courtesan, an outcast in the Cretan community, and makes her feel young again and watches her die. Meanwhile the Englishman meets a young widow, as beautiful and bitter as the ancient Greek heroines. He makes love to her. A young boy who loved her in vain drowns himself. And then the Englishman watches the community stone the young woman he has loved, and kill...
...women are portrayed with equal skill. Lila Kedrova plays the old courtesan. Draped in bitten furs and clutching a parasol, she is grotesque, pitiful--and yet you can believe that once she was beautiful enough to charm all those admirals. Irene Pappas plays the young widow with the same pride and dignity she brought to her performance as Electra...