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Lost Hour. Maurice Evans' considerable triumph is the more impressive because he had to sandwich TV rehearsals between his performances in the Broadway hit, Dial 'M' for Murder. On the day before he went on the air, Evans (as well as Actors Barry Jones, Neva Patterson and Francis Bethencourt, all of whom are in Broadway plays) had to act in a matinee and evening performance, lost an hour's sleep with the change to daylight saving time, and then began the final Hamlet rehearsals...
...Neva Patterson is capable as Ewell's wife, but the two other principles, Robert Emhardt and George Keane, both deliver lines as if they were reading something untasteful. Emhardt plays a psychiatrist whose text is being turned into a red-hot 25 cent seller by Ewell's pocket book company, but he ruins his lines, the only really accomplished part of the dialogue, with a bad case of dramatic insincerity...
Donald Cook manages to make something quite comic out of his Southern boozehound. His acting is a line job of underplaying and exact timing. If the other stars had the same energetic approach things might be a little more interesting. Neva Patterson appears briefly as a Conover model. Miss Patterson is not only a dazzling woman but a fine actress, and it's too bad that she has been given a part that is poorly written...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Confession, with John Ireland and Neva Patterson...
...that his brother Hugo lacks, is in love with a beautiful young heiress, but the heiress loves Hugo. Hugo brings a poor young ballerina to a ball to distract his twin from the heiress, and her presence there gives the plot much of the flavor of Shaw's "Pygmalion." Neva Patterson is not only gorgeous as the heiress, but she plays the part with splendid clairty and effectiveness. Stella Andrews makes the ballrina a gentle, sympathetic personality...