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Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Wild Stallion, adapted from William Faulkner's short story, Knight's Gambit, starring Paul Henreid, Mary Astor, Evelyn Keyes...
Many a Confidential story is based on facts that newsmen know and could print, e.g., "The Astor Testimony the Judge Suppressed." The magazine specializes in finding one black mark in a subject's distant past, and hammering him with it, e.g., Cinemactor Rory Calhoun's youthful prison record. Sometimes Confidential drops the pretense of reporting altogether, once concluded an article about a Hollywood director and an actress causing a scene in a nightclub with the last line: "It's all a fake...
...very bright, but Author Finletter is both bright and fashionable. She has written a scattering of plays, and a book of memoirs. Once, for a charity show, she wrote a play called A Night in the Palace of Prince Esterhazy, with a cast that included Grace Moore, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, Cecil Beaton, Prince Serge Obolensky. and Papa Damrosch himself...
Dinner Party's leading character might just hold her own with an Obolensky, but would feel that she had nothing really adequate to say to an Astor or really adequate to wear for a Beaton. She is more likely to turn up in a creation of three seasons ago, with a not-too-notice able grass stain on the skirt. The Dinner Party, written in diary form, records the daily round of a family just moved from the city while husband Charles writes a book. The diarist-heroine achieves an art less air and a malicious...
Front Row Center (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Dinner at Eight, the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber stage and screen hit, starring Pat O'Brien, Mary Astor...