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...Christmas Eve nine years ago, Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors had its premiere on NBC television, has been a seasonal fixture ever since. Last week another Christmas opera, Golden Child, was displayed on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame. Composed by Philip Bezanson with a libretto by Paul Engle, the new work sounded a lot like Menotti gone western-and gone weak. The music kept attempting to soar melodically, but kept being dashed to the ground again by its own heaviness. Still, the score had its stirring, lyrical moments, and Golden Child deserved credit...
...jobs, indirectly another 10,000. Nearly one-quarter of the plants belong to West German firms, which, faced with a labor shortage at home, have turned to Ireland for a bountiful supply of workers. Besides Borden, twelve other U.S. firms, including Brunswick Corp., Standard Pressed Steel (electronic components) and Hallmark, have set up plants in Ireland. Nearly all the products from Irish plants are admitted duty-free to Great Britain, receive preferential treatment from Commonwealth nations...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). "The Golden Child," an original opera by Philip Bezanson and Paul Engle about greedy miners during the California gold rush, with a somewhat gratuitous Christmas theme and an ending that suggests The Turn of the Scrooge. Color...
When Shakespeare plays television, he usually loses. A line here, a scene there, disappears under the chopper as all that spirit is crammed onto the 21-inch screen. The total effect, too frequently, is bottled bard. But this week NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame pulled out the cork, took a full setting and two hours for an excellent, virtually uncut production of Macbeth...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 6-8 p.m.). Maurice Evans and Dame Judith Anderson lead a first-rate cast in Macbeth. Color...