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Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Premiere of a Ford TV Workshop production, featuring original plays by William Saroyan and Maxwell Anderson, with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer...
...arrival of the first baby; the crisis over the other woman; the son's death in World War I; the daughter's wedding in the jazz-mad '20s; the husband (Rex Harrison) reliving the high spots of the marriage with the vision of his departed wife (Lilli Palmer) just before he, too, dies...
...force that capitalized on the physical limitations of the stage. But on the expansive screen, it becomes a motion picture with a minimum of motion and a maximum of sugary sentiment. The result is a fourposter that often creaks and sags. England's suave Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, his real-life wife, play their parts smoothly, though they sometimes seem over-sophisticated for the homey couple they are supposed to be. The picture owes nothing to the stage original for its outstanding feature: a gaily animated cartoon that bridges sequences, depicting the changing world outside the bedroom...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). An Ideal Husband, with Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer...
...bright stunts like a slowly uncoiling sentence 293 words long. But on the stage the play lacks pace and flow, the detail eats up the design. Venus is none the better for Sir Laurence Olivier's irresolute staging, which leaves most of the cast uncharacterized and even Lilli Palmer living entirely off charm. The splendid exceptions are Rex Harrison as the duke and John Williams as the estate manager. Fry, in his own words, is here coruscating on thin ice; and he has forgotten Emerson's warning that in skating on thin ice, "our safety...