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...Cameo Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Nina Foch in Betrayal...
Without scenery, well-known actors or advance fanfare, Cameo Theater (Tues. 9:30 p.m. E.D.T., NBCTV) last week presented one of the most exciting plays ever shown on U.S. television. It was a tense, deceptively simple dramatization of Shirley Jackson's disturbing New Yorker short story, The Lottery. Crowding the TV screen with dramatic close-ups and using music scored for an unusual orchestra of organ and musical saw, Cameo took its audience into an isolated village of uncertain time and place to witness the celebration of an annual rite and its grim ending: the communal stoning-to-death...
...Albert McCleery, the 38-year-old ex-paratrooper who produces and directs Cameo Theater, the "beautiful job" was what mattered most. An admirer of the "arena" theater (TIME, June 12), he got his early training at Gilmor Brown's Pasadena Playhouse, was briefly a movie writer (The Lady Is Willing) and, as head of the Fordham University Theater, set up one of the first arena theaters east of the Mississippi. After "wasting a year and $50,000 of NBC's money" doing standard TV shows, McCleery got his chance to experiment with the month-old Cameo Theater...
...most brilliant of all Pinkham advertising ideas was Dan's proposal to put his mother's face on every ad. The result was inspired to the last detail-"the neat black silk dress, the tortoise-shell comb, the white fichu fastened with a cameo brooch," the perpetual smile, the sagacious and composed elderly features. Here was everybody's grandmother...
Players are often baffled by the allusions that Neville Cardus, who usually lugs a good book along to the cricket field, chips into his cameo-chiseled reports on Britain's national game. Slight, myopic Cardus is probably the world's only cricket critic who also doubles in brass and woodwinds as a music reviewer. For 30 years, in covering his "strange dichotomy," first for the Guardian and now for the Kemsley newspapers (the Sunday Times, the Sunday Chronicle), Cardus has played a deft prose symphony of his own that weaves through both his fields the tonal majesty...