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...delight of nocturnal listeners from coast to coast, NBC-TV's glad-libber Steve Allen, 32, met his match and more when septuagenarian Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg dropped in for a scheduled 15-minute interview on Allen's midnight show. Looking as mild and mischievous as Grandma Moses in a barroom, the weathered old buckeye bard casually ignored the time limit on his stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen...
...last week's NBC-TV Macbeth was a triumph. The camera work was so carefully plotted that, on the screen, the play had a novel air of extreme fluidity. Oddly enough, because of the narrow range imposed by the color-TV control board, Director George Schaefer used only three cameras on the set and one on a platform, instead of the five cameras that handled the black-and-white telecast of Hamlet two years ago. However Schaefer achieved his remarkable mobility by keeping his camera moving into and out of the scene during each long sequence...
Maurice Evans, who has already played an excellent Hamlet and a sympathetic Richard II on NBC-TV shows, may have lacked the physical bulk and dominance that seem required for Macbeth. But as always, he spoke with clarity and feeling. So did Judith Anderson, who was superb in the sleepwalking scene. The rest of the cast did not always do so well: the three weird sisters, along with many of the supporting players, often seemed as drowned in gibberish as in mist. For next season, Evans and Schaefer are thinking of deserting Shakespeare for Shaw: Evans has already taken TV...
Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 (in color) with Ginger Rogers...
Courage & Despair. Medic (Mon. 9 p.m.; NBC-TV), the second big NBC threat of the week, also wore the unmistakable mark of the professional. Created and written by James Moser (who learned how on Dragnet), the filmed show is one which NBC hopes will put a big dent in the top rating of CBS's / Love Lucy. Medic may well...