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HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Moviedom's star gangsters-Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and Paul Muni...
Salazar's old Iberian neighbor and amigo, Spain's Francisco Franco, was bending slightly more with the winds, announced plans to grant a measure of autonomy to Spanish Guinea, which is made up of the "provinces" of Rio Muni, a Maryland-sized West African enclave lying between Gabon and Cameroon, and the adjacent islands of Fernando Po and Annobón. The colony's 225,000 Africans, who harvest its coffee, cocoa beans and timber, and 5,000 Europeans will be encouraged to elect a rubber-stamp Parliament loyal to El Caudillo...
...Vivien Hartley lost her hart. James Baumgarner dropped the baum. Grace Stanfield is now Gracie Fields. Uncle Miltie was once Milton Berlinger. One letter made the difference for Dorothy Lambour. First names have a habit of turning into surnames. Benny Kubelsky changed his name to Jack Benny, Muni Weisenfreund to Paul Muni, Preston Meservey to Robert Preston...
...this gaudy material Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee worked up a courtroom melodrama (TIME, May 2, 1955) that stayed in style for two full seasons on Broadway-partly because, like the trial, it was sure-shot theater, mostly because Paul Muni, who played Darrow, developed his role into an unforgettable set piece of libertarian tirade. Thanks to Producer-Director Stan ley Kramer, Inherit the Wind has now been made into a movie that retains al most nothing of the play but its flashy, trashy script...
Instead of the hard-paced, sharp-edged direction that Herman Shumlin brought to the play, there is in the film a sluggish, confused manipulation of ideas and players. Instead of Actor Muni there is Spencer Tracy, the Hollywooden archetype of the wise old man, who as the years and pictures go by acts less and less and looks more and more as though he had been carved out of Mount Rushmore. Instead of Ed Begley in the role of Bryan there is Fredric March, who has somehow been persuaded to portray that unbalanced genius of the spoken word...