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Television looked more & more promising. Some of last week's developments: ¶ The Theatre Guild got a well-pedicured toehold in the medium. The first of six Guild-NBC productions, a full-dress treatment of John Ferguson* was presented over NBC. Each play would require four weeks of production, unmentionable costs (mostly paid by NBC). Said Guildsman Lawrence Langner: "We want to communicate culture, not nonsense; to elevate television from the saloon to the living room...
...sentimental choice. St. John Ervine's Irish melodrama about rape, murder and an unpaid mortgage was the Guild's first hit 28 years ago, pulled the fledgling producers into the black at a time when they were down to their last $19.50. For news of another Ervine play, see THEATER...
This Time Tomorrow (by Jan de Hartog; produced by the Theatre Guild) is as solemn as a church organ and as hollow as a drum. A young scientist working on cancer research falls in love with a young girl dying of tuberculosis. Indeed, the X rays proclaim that she should already be dead; what is keeping her alive is a passionate desire to reproduce. She is additionally remarkable for having learned the nature of death, and for having visions that foretell the future...
Chairman Thomas hastily assured him that that point was of no interest.* What about Communists in the Guild? They were just a noisy, overrated minority, said Lavery. As for outlawing the party, he agreed with the FBI's boss J. Edgar Hoover: driving the Reds underground would only make them harder to find. The positive way to handle the problem, he thought, was to promote American ideals...
...Winslow Boy (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild, H.M. Tennent Ltd. & John C. Wilson) was in real life named George Archer-Shee. Not quite 40 years ago his story-which Playwright Rattigan has followed pretty faithfully-became a cause célèbre of Edwardian England; some eight years ago Alexander Woollcott made good quick reading matter of it for snack-loving Americans...