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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). O'Halloran's Luck, with Jimmy Stewart. Gloria de Haven...
...Durable Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, with a nice 39-week TV contract to see her through this year, said bluntly: "Three-D will be a flash in the pan . . . The only real future for films is in developing some kind of box to collect money for movies...
...Similarly, after the length and power of the second story, Shield's third betrayal is nearly an anti-climax. Dick Powcll, his victim, seems more the author of mystery stories than prize-winning novels and the plot of this sequence is but a soapy tale from radio serials. But Gloria Grahame, as a latter day Southern belle, drawls with a sultry sugared accent, more than covering any weaknesses in the episode...
...only vernacular piece in the collection is an anonymous Italian laude, O Maria, Diam Stella, a work more notable for its reverent dignity than for any intrinsic musical merit. After a rather sluggish rendition of Lassus' Tibi Laus, Tibi Gloria comes victoria's beautiful Miserere Mei. The Glee club, showing full comprehension of the text, sings expressively, but Woodworth never permits the performance to become over-emotional. The perfect enunciation and balance of the group illuminate each word...
...Curiosity Shop (Victor LP). Stagy old recordings, dating from 1911 to 1929, that should bring mist to many an eye. Among the performers: Maurice Chevalier (Valentine), Helen ("boo-boop-a-doop") Kane (I Have to Have You), Marlene Dietrich (Falling in Love Again), Fanny Brice (My Man), Gloria Swanson (Love). Added features: monologues by Will Rogers, De Wolf Hopper and John Barrymore...