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DRAMA: Halls of Ivy (NBC), with Ronald Colman...
Actually, President Hall has had a short career. Played by Actor Ronald Colman, he exists for only half an hour a week, Wednesday nights on NBC. But judging by the president's fan mail, U.S. educators like him fine. By the pie-simple process of self-identification, many a paunchy U.S. educator is clearly having a gratifying half hour listening to Ronald Colman suavely solving his problems...
Wisely & Well. The president of Ivy ("Toddy" to his wife, played by Mrs. Colman) is, of course, a harassed man, whose desk is always littered with reports, and whose days are filled with faculty teas, meetings of the Fiscal Committee of the Governing Board, and invitations to make speeches. Like his fellow presidents, Dr. Hall has a good deal of trustee trouble, especially with the chairman of the board who invariably wants to "throw the book" at someone ("He wouldn't know any other use for a book," says Hall). He is bothered by his budget ("Our sinking fund...
Last week, in recognition of this state of affairs, Mike Romanoff gathered some of his friends together for a historic event. On a vacant lot in Beverly Hills, Ethel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Ann Miller, Ronald Colman and scores of other stars watched as Mike laid the cornerstone for a new restaurant...
Celeste Holm, as the vixen whom the hucksters use to trip up Colman, is much better than her material, but Actor Price, wallowing in an outrageously flamboyant role, outhams Orson Welles. For a while, radio's Quizmaster Art (People Are Funny) Linkletter, a toothy paragon of commercial insincerity, seems an inspired choice for an obnoxious giveaway M.C. But then the script switches about and tries to palm him off as a sympathetic character. Having blunted its point throughout, the picture finally tosses it away altogether by having Colman sell out to Price in a deal that gives...