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Showtime-U.S.A. (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC-TV). New ANTA show, with Helen Hayes, Carol Channing, the Hartmans, Alec Templeton, Henry Fonda...
...seat Strand was about ready last week to end its 25 years as a movie house and become a legitimate theater. Balked in its attempt to lease the old Belasco from the Government, which uses it as a Treasury Department storehouse, the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) expected to close a deal soon to take over .the Strand...
Blessed by the U.S. State Department, the trip was inspired and partly financed by wealthy Blevins Davis, patron of the ballet and board member of the American National Theater and Academy. The 26-member troupe, with ANTA Executive Secretary Robert Breen playing Hamlet, was bolstered with some veteran Broadway talent: Aline MacMahon as the Queen, Walter Abel as the King, Clarence Derwent as Polonius. But the production, geared for ten outdoor performances in the castle's great courtyard, was born in Abingdon...
...further work of ANTA has been in extending its semi-official blessing to the struggling young repertory groups that have been attempting to divert some of the movie addicts from their well-worn rut which leads them almost unconsciously to weekly devotional service at the temples to their idols. ANTA's most successful god-child has been Miss Margo Jones' Dallas Theater. Currently its fond eyes are fixed on Boston where the Boston Repertory Association began operations three weeks ago at the Copley Theater...
...Savory's play, "George and Margaret." Deciding that this was going to be one civic organization run on a real business-like basis, they innaugurated last year a series of gala cocktail parties where they managed to peddle $40,000 worth of shares to some 3,000 interested citizens. ANTA did its bit by sending celebrities up from New York to brighten the dark corners of the parties while preaching the Cause...