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...week, Rice lashed out with another letter on the same theme. But this time he went further than angry words. He resigned from the Playwrights' TV Theater, a group of top dramatists (Robert Sherwood, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, et al.) whose works are being performed on, ABC-TV's Celanese Theater...
Herb Shriner Time (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) brings a latter-day and considerably less-than-life-size Will Rogers to the TV screen. Shriner, a transplanted Hoosier, has most of the master's mannerisms, from the errant lock of hair to the habit of quizzically scratching his ear. And he has some of Rogers' owlish humor. On the opening show, Shriner followed a comic monologue about an Indiana postmaster with a small-town skit that contained liberal borrowings from such poles-apart sources as Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...
With the help of such suave know-it-alls as John J. Anthony, radio has for years made a sideshow out of people in trouble. More like a lecture than a sideshow, What's On Your Mind? (Tues. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is one television show that seriously considers the neuroses of troubled people. Twenty of its 30 minutes are given to the filmed story of a mental-health problem; the remaining ten minutes show a panel discussion by Moderator Isabel Leighton and her guests: a psychiatrist and two laymen...
Author! Author! (Mon. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is a variation on an old theme: the amateur talent show. This time the chance for limited fame and limited fortune ($100) goes to would-be playwrights. On the opening show, after a performance of Robert Latta's Love Story, Moderator Marc Connelly and a panel of experts told the aspiring dramatist what was right and what was wrong with his play. Their criticism ranged from the vague ("I think it's a pretty good job") to the picayune ("No character should be made...
...Frances Longford-Don Ameche Show (weekdays, noon, ABC-TV) goes on for 60 minutes, haphazardly packed with songs, dance teams, dramatic skits, interviews that range from cover girls to Korean war veterans, and the commercials of three sponsors. Like Bert Parks, his daytime TV rival, Don Ameche alternately pouts and twinkles roguishly at the viewers. By treating him as just a great big silly boy, Frances Langford makes an appropriately maternal teammate...