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Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Twelfth anniversary of Oklahoma!, with Celeste Holm, John Raitt...
Like the sturdy Vermont farmhouse which gave it its title, The Southwest Corner has many more strengths than weaknesses. John Cecil Holm has created a thoughtful framework out of light material. His rather effective come tragedy is due almost entirely to sharply chiseled characterizations. For dramatically, the playwright's adaptation of Milder Walker's novel is somewhat shaky. His arrangement of ideas and characters is less clear-cut than her original fashioning of them. But masterful acting by a woman, not the heroine, buttresses this one weak timber, and makes The Southwest Corner a skillfully executed play...
This first act establishes the setting of the play, but without logical order. The dialogue is choppy, because each character blurts out a new fact rather than building on a previous one. Holm also bypasses a dramatic opportunity when he does not take full advantage of a storm in order to make the Vermont woman pathetic...
...these two conflicting forces is a sympathetic but misunderstanding hired hand. Parker Fennelly impersonates to perfection a cracked-voiced Yankee, and in view of the practice he has had as Titus Moody on the Fred Allen Show, there is little wonder. But because he is meant for comic relief, Holm should have given him more humorous lines, especially at the beginning...
Honestly, Celeste! (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS) lets Comedienne Celeste Holm play hob with a newspaper office and appears to have been created by the second-string writers of NBC's Dear Phoebe, which is also a situation comedy laid in a newspaper office...