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...focusing down to this controversial theme, ABC's Omnibus this week brought big historical drama to television. Lee at Gettysburg, a 78-minute play written in lucid, often eloquent blank verse by young (35) TV Dramatist Alvin Sapinsley, opposed the general's two chief subordinates like tongs of a forceps with which to lay bare and probe Lee's fatal flaw...
...battle's end there are still 21 months of fierce war to be fought, but Omnibus foreshortens history to have Lee (played with quiet dignity by James Daly) reflect...
...translators, interpreters and tamperers. When it appeared on TV last week, the test was strictly of TV. Was the narrow, circumscribed cathode world of 17 or 21 inches up to the big challenge of one of the most compelling and most perfect of plays? The answer, delivered lovingly by Omnibus, over ABC, was yes. In an uninterrupted hour and five minutes of clean-plucked verse and smoothly paced action, Producer Robert Saudek and Director Alan Schneider demonstrated that television can carry art into the living room and be at home there without touching forelock or shuffling in embarrassment. Drama Critic...
...Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). "Lee at Gettysburg," the story of the decisive battle of the Civil War and the three leading Southern generals involved, directed by Delbert Mann...
...Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). "After Wagner, What?" discussed by Leonard Bernstein...