31 AUGUST 1956, Page 7

LAST YEAR Clare Boothe Luce, the American Nuncio in Rome.

stopped the showing of Blackboard Jungle at the Venice film festival. It was not a true picture, she complained, of the American way of life: certainly not of Life's way. This year she has stalked out of the festival on the grounds that the film Attack shows America in a bad light. Perhaps America would be wise to stop exhibiting at festivals if this is the light in which they are going to show Mrs. Luce. IMAROS