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...Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower...
Kraft Television Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Windows, with Valerie Cossart...
...Ernest Cossart capably handles the weighty, but not meaty, part of Pusey, an omnipresent butler who is equal to everything but the attribute of paternal self-sacrifice imposed on him in the last scene. Joel Asheley's characterization of an actor in the red and a painter in the pink is over-boyish and too awkward. Vicki Cummings, as "Penny" not only wears exciting clothes well (her first appearance in a shimmering strapless almost brought down the first balcony) but carries off her gay grass-widow's role with a deft touch of cosmopolitan hauteur. Ellanora Reeves is attractively convincing...
...expect Martin to do another strip, you'll be disappointed, although she does show a prodigious amount of leg. Her forte is the musical numbers, and she is superb here. Though Mary may not strip, the chorus does, and Dudley Digges and Ernest Cossart take a bath, but not at the same time. The latter could be cut and the former should definitely be prolonged...
...chorus and the showgirls are, nearly every one the biggest assets in the show. Such famed beauties as Kay Aldridge and Mildred Law will not go unrecognized by frequenters of the Shubert and dippers into Vogue. The veteran cast includes, beside Digges and Cossart. Cora Witherspoon, Mary Wickes, Jack Smart, and Eddie Green of "Duffy's Tavern." All are capable comedians without suitable material, but, all join in the chorus, "By the time it reaches New York...