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Star of the Family (Sun., 6:30 p.m., CBS-TV), which appeared last year with Morton Downey as M.C., now has a husband and wife team in charge: Peter Lind Hayes, genteel mugger and nightclub comic, and pretty Mary Healy, singing comedienne with a pleasant willingness to let others have their say. Under their easygoing coaxing, relatives of famous entertainers (Mimi Benzell, Mel Tormé) discuss the star of the family, who then obliges with a brief performance...
...consultants. By the time he was ready to wind up the program with a familiar traveling salesman version of Carmen, Allen had brought on Guest Stars Sono Osato, Risë Stevens and Monty Woolley, had put on half a dozen sly lampoons and proved himself as fine a mugger as he is an ad-libber...
...Hartmans, of course, are capable of surmounting even poor material. Grace, as a garrulous feather-brained nincompoop, is always amusing. Paul Hartman says very little, but he does carry off honors for being the most energetic mugger, as well as the most hilariously ungraceful entertainer on Broadway. When the two get together to parody the modern dance ("Symbol of Fire") the result is most definitely worth seeing...
Bestselling Novelist Willard (Knock on Any Door) Motley looked suspiciously like a mugger to Chicago police, as he prowled about the Gold Coast early one morning, absorbing local color. He talked strangely, too, after the cops picked him up. "I'm a jack-roller," he cracked, refusing to give his name, "but the pickings are pretty thin tonight." Later, at the station house, he let them in on the gag, and they let him off on $10 bond...
This supernatural hugger-mugger does not take place in a comic book or a pulp magazine, but in a novel by one of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century. Now published in the U.S., the late Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve (Pellegrini & Cudahy; $2.75) will soon be followed by other Williams books, and-if his effect on Britain is any indication-the almost certain growth of a small but fanatical group of Williams fans...