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...Omnibus (Sundays, 4:30 p.m., CBS-TV) dedicates an hour and a half to "exceedingly various" experiences in the arts and skills. The show is aimed, says Spokesman Alistair Cooke, at middlebrow audiences. What gives the program its theoretical latitude is the fact that it was designed (and is supported) by the Ford Foundation, whose object is not money but an attempt to exploit new TV horizons. The first show of the series set the pace for the future: two original plays (The Badmen, by William Saroyan, and The Trial of Anne Boleyn, by Maxwell Anderson); excerpts from The Mikado...
Spokesman Cooke, famed for his BBC broadcasts from the U.S., strolls from experience to experience, doing his urbane best to lace a heterogeneous program together. Once minor production flaws are cleared up, Omnibus should be one of the smoothest, most informative shows in television. This week's second production gave proof of the hope. The bill was tighter, better edited and smaller. There were fewer features, including Menotti's miniature opera, The Telephone, and the first of a five-part Abraham Lincoln story written by James (The Quiet One) Agee and directed by Documentary Producer Louis de Rochemont...
...Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Premiere of a Ford TV Workshop production, featuring original plays by William Saroyan and Maxwell Anderson, with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer...
...Henry's Full House (20th Century-Fox) might have been entitled Quintet, for it takes its cue from the successful Somerset Maugham omnibus movies, Trio and Quartet. It is a grab bag based on five short stories from the popular, prolific pen of William Sydney Porter.*With five different sets of directors, writers and stars and with chatty narration by John Steinbeck. O. Henry's Full House is long on box-office names, sometimes short on the natty irony that O. Henry gave his trick tales of Manhattan...
Last week the principle of national origins came under heavy fire from Senate liberals. Up for debate and disposition was an omnibus immigration measure sponsored by Nevada's Pat McCarran. In essence, the bill proposes no real departure in policy. Product of almost three years of study and hearings by the judiciary committees, it is designed to bring thousands of piecemeal immigration statutes and regulations (accumulated since 1798) into one handy, compact code. In the process, it would remove some glaring inequities, e.g., all Asiatic immigrants would be eligible for citizenship, where previously Japanese and certain others were barred...