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Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Hide and Seek, with Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field...
...fatal accident offstage) and point (life must progress from fakery to reality) are the feeblest parts of her drama. But she wins high marks for theatricality and comic invention. Each of the five scenes is beautifully placed and paced. They are peopled with some fine original types, notably Mildred Dunnock as a tiptoeing mother who achieves a boozy sublimation after the death of her jet-propelled offspring (Muriel Berkson), Jean Stapleton, a triumphantly fun-loving barmaid, and Martita Reid, a Mexican dowager of sufficient force to faze even indomitable Actress Anderson. Director José Quintero has caught some memorable vignettes...
...theme or key neurosis of the play is a matter of personal preference. The incapacity of the unloved for normal love, the introvert hiding from an extrovert world, the destructiveness of possessive motherhood are all possible choices. From the impressive stars of the play, Judith Anderson and Mildred Dunnock, the audience might expect some help in choosing, but even the cast appears unsure of what Mrs. Bowles' characters are meant to express. At the heart of the play are two unnatural mother-daughter relationships. In one, an iron-willed mother has crushed her child's personality, in the other...
Hovering in the background of all this, is Vivian's widowed mother, an alcoholic since the death of the daughter who despised her ("My bird, my bird" . . . "She hopped from the cliff like a cricket"). Miss Dunnock seems uncertain whether she should be tragic or pitifully absurd, as she flings hot-dogs around the stage and talks of the husband who never loved her. In any case, she gets little sympathy, least of all from Mrs. Eastman Cuevas, who tells the widow who clutches her hysterically and begs her not to leave: "Stop brooding!", a line reminiscent of Charles Addams...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Mark of Cain, with Warren Stevens, Mildred Dunnock...