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Astronomers all over the world were readying their telescopes this week for Comet Arend-Roland. which is about to make an appearance from behind the glare of the sun. This week it should become visible just after sunset, low in the northwest. It will soon climb higher in the sky, but since it will be moving away from the sun, it will gradually lose brilliance, become invisible to the naked eye about June...
Back-alley exposés of TV comics have come into fashion on big and little screens this season. Notable examples: Hollywood's The Great Man and Studio One's Tale of a Comet. Last week on TV, Producer Martin Manulis of CBS's Playhouse go turned Ernest Lehman's novelette The Comedian into an X ray of the flabby soul of a top-ranking clown. TV Comic Sammy Hogarth, played by Mickey Rooney as if the part were fitted to him in Savile Row, is the man who gives the chuckle...
Comedians traditionally harbor an urge to play Hamlet; in television, a newer tradition has it, they play him offscreen all the time. In Robert Alan Aurthur's Tale. of the Comet, Studio One offered a case history of the TV comic as a tragic hero-a lonely figure tortured by self-defeating uncertainty amid the debris of his fallen ratings. Tim Tully is a onetime top banana who trampled 19 writers in three seasons in his frenzy to stop slipping. As the play opens, he is on the eve of an attempted comeback that seems doomed by his panicky...
...Boston's Mayor John B. Hynes, the event all but defied description. "The only thing within my memory that comes anything near it," said he, "was Halley's comet. And that didn't stay very long. This will be with us forever. The city of Boston is about to be reborn...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m.. CBS). Tale of the Comet, with Hal March as a TV comic victimized by the ratings system...