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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC). Walter Hampden and Fay Bainter in Portrait of a President...
Cavalcade of America (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). Stepping Stones, with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Walter Hampden...
...last British king to invade the House of Commons officially was Charles I who, with an armed escort, stormed up to the House on a chill afternoon in January 1642 in search of his rebellious Ministers Pym, Holles, Heselrige, Strode and Hampden. He entered alone to ask for the culprits. Speaker William Lenthall told him coldly: "May it please Your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am." "I see my birds are flown," answered Charles, turning back to stride through...
Cavalcade of America (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). Reveille, with Walter Hampden...
Considerably more worldly than otherworldly in approach, The Velvet Glove is neatly dotted with church figures (including Walter Hampden as a monsignor), pleasantly dusted with conventual and clerical badinage. It is the brighter for the deft warfare between John Williams and Grace George, who with all the airiness of a butterfly can impose the sting of a bee. But the play, a theatrical ladyfinger from the start, gets milder, thinner and crumblier as it proceeds...