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Playhouse on Broadway (Sun. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Melvyn Douglas in Petticoat Fever...
...Miner's Studio One (CBS, Mon. 10 p.m.) has won more awards than any other dramatic program, largely because of its professional competence and grown-up storytelling. Last week, Studio One tackled Stefan Zweig's Letter from An Unknown Woman, a melodrama about a heartless Viennese composer (Melvyn Douglas) and a seamstress (Viveca Lindfors). Televiewers who expected to see the usual bang-up production, saw instead a shambles...
Celanese Theater (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Reunion in Vienna, with Melvyn Douglas, Signe Hasso...
Garbo is very persuasive as a hard-boiled, sexless Comrade, and her mission is ultimately successful. But she loses her Marxist ways when she encounters an antagonist, Melvyn Douglas. Champagne and class struggle don't mix, and the result is marriage for Garbo and Douglas and a capitalistically-operated Russian restaurant for the old trio...
...something half-real jostles something quite wacky in the sort of situation that won't admit of farce and feeling both. But beyond its muddled tone, Glad Tidings suffers from the author's clumsy, indelicate touch. The rewards, of both writing and acting, are fairly momentary. Though Melvyn Douglas is quietly wry and down-to-earth, Signe Hasso is eruptive enough to make Tallulah Bankhead seem demure...