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...stage piece. The Man in the Dog Suit is not without virtues. Hume Cronyn brings to the title role the sort of skill that can dramatize a problem and humanize a scene, and Jessica Tandy is engaging as the wife. Some of their scenes together flash with intensity as well as theater; Carmen Mathews has a funny interlude as a drunk; scattered moments are touching or sharp. But the man in the dog suit is the same man who has wooed conformity to win security, who has shaken with fright and then shaken himself free, in a dozen earlier tales...
...Fire. But balancing them, his Producers' Theater has brought in Eugene O'Neill's ponderous success, A Touch of the Poet. And other Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and Daarlin' Man, a musical version of O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Some of these may soon rank with earlier Stevens' successes-Four Poster, Tea and Sympathy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
Though there were sound male performers in the cast (Steve Hill, Hume Cronyn), the TV play belonged to the women. As the perichole (half-breed bitch), Viveca Lindfors munched off the scenery with her "razor tongue" until the pox dulled her cutting edge and brought pathos to the role. Judith Anderson played the mad. fatuous marquesa in a style that would have fit nicely into a theater but came a little floridly into the living room. Yet both actresses gave the show its finest moment: a fateful mutual-humility act when the marquesa, in a weepy, alcoholic glow transferred...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). No License to Kill, with Hume Cronyn, Eileen Heckart and blinded Columnist Victor Riesel as narrator...
Studio One (Mon.10p.m., CBS). The Five-Dollar Bill, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy as sorely tried parents of a rebellious young...