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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:307 p.m.). Rare films of a rare time and place, Paris in the '20s, re-create a Who's Who of the Lost Generation: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Colette, Josephine Baker, Mistinguett, Marilyn Miller, Harpo Marx...
King Sextimus (Jack Gilford) is a Harpo Marxist mute with whom no 15th century lady in waiting is more than half safe. Queen Agravaine (Jane White) is a jawing virago for whom possession is nine-tenths of motherhood's law. It begins to look as if their son, poor fretful Prince Dauntless (Joe Bova), will always be mama's boy. And then one day Princess Winnifred (Carol Burnett) swims the moat. Winnifred ("My friends call me 'Fred' ") rescues Dauntless from his possessive mother, but only after Fred's friends have built up the queen...
...youngest ballerina, 19-year-old Ekaterina Maximova. Unfortunately, the dancers' technique was more impressive than their material: among the selections was a glass-beaded resurrection of Walpurgis Night, from Gounod's Faust, with the satyrs decked out in yellow wigs that made each a dead ringer for Harpo Marx...
Person to Person: Professionally mute Harpo Marx talked so freely before air time that Host Ed Murrow playfully opened the show with: "I hope it's not your intention to monopolize the conversation this evening." It was not. On the air, Harpo ogled the camera with idiot grins and adroit grimaces, whistled replies between his fingers, blew smoke bubbles at Murrow and sadly plucked at his harp. But, in the lifelong tradition of "inviolable mutism." he was noisily silent. Tumbling over the furniture in his Palm Springs home, fright-wigged Harpo was as much a problem to chatty...
Murrow. Trying to give viewers an insight into Harpo's more serious side, she explained: "Actually he is a very quiet man, philosophical. He uses his head." Behind her back, the camera caught 64-year-old Harpo standing on his head in the middle of the room...