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...bells that Aggie Hogan sewed in the hems of her dresses ring softly and sadly throughout William Alfred's Hogan's Goat. Though never seen in the play, and dead by the middle of the first act, she lives on as the persisting memory of sin which drives Alfred's characters to tragedy...
Treating sin in a straightforward manner is not popular in the modern theater. But Alfred does not shy away from the conventionally unpopular. His play not only deals openly with sin and guilt, but it deals with them in a frankly religious context. Hogan's Goat is a Catholic play in subject and outlook. As the curtain falls a hard, righteous priest who is no way a hypocrite tells a sobbing woman on a starkly-lit stage that perhaps she should cry for us all. There are no apologies made for sin; regeneration comes only with confession and repentance...
...much color programing, and 15 attention-attracting new shows, including Get Smart! (TIME, Oct. 15). CBS, ahead by a whisker last season, is still in the running. It has six of Nielsen's first ten shows and the two most popular new ones to date, fifth-place Hogan's Heroes and No. 8, Green Acres. CBS, further more, is striking fastest in cutting its losses: Slavery's People (92nd of 98 in the ratings) will die in November, Rawhide (84th) in January, and the literate but limited-appeal Trials of O'Brien 89th) is being readied...
Nifty Legs. With comedy this season all but moribund, it comes as a surprise to find it popping up in, of all places, a German P.W. camp in Hogan's Heroes (CBS). Natürlich, the World War II Teutons are Dumkopfs, and the prisoners run rings around their captors, blackmailing them into submission with dark hints that if anything goes wrong at the camp, Hitler will send them all marching off to the Russian front. So they allow the captives to print money, smoke their cigars-to do everything in short but escape. It's slapstick Stalag...
...HOGAN'S HEROES (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Adventure comedy in a Wold War II P.O.W. camp...