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ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATER (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical Carousel, specially adapted for TV, features Robert Goulet as Carnival Barker Billy Bigelow and such brass ring-adingers as If I Loved You and June Is Bustin' Out All Over...
Wednesday, January 18 CBS SPECIAL: CINDERELLA (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.).* - Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical version of the glass-slipper classic written in 1957 specially for TV and starring Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm and Lesley Ann Warren. Repeat...
Cerf endured that job for three years, while all around him New York was bursting with bright, talented people; his friends and former classmates were men such as Composers Howard Dietz, Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers. The theater and Tin Pan Alley were his passions. Says Donald Klopfer, 64, Cerfs Columbia classmate and now vice chairman of the Random House board of directors...
...point the burgeoning family of man crowds the screen with something resembling a pyramid of Chinese acrobats. Huston plays Noah, mugging simplicity as he takes his orders from the Almighty, cramming in a lot of low comedy aboard the Ark and looking sorely tempted to burst into the Rodgers & Hammerstein admonition that chicks 'n' ducks 'n' geese better scurry. Generally, the acting style is holier-than-thou, for Huston conducts his ensemble rather like an old-fashioned Sunday-school master who has put on a multimillion-dollar spring pageant and copped the best parts for himself...
...scrambled eggs in the head. Are double-entendres in music new? Old songs like All or Nothing at All, All the Way and Come Fly with Me couldn't pass a purity test. Was Kern a dirty old man when he wrote Easy to Love! Was Hammerstein thinking lewd thoughts as he penned I'm Just a Girl...