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...Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Trial scene from Shaw's St. Joan...
...dramatic show of the week was the Omnibus version of Sophocles' Antigone, superbly directed by Sidney Lumet and beautifully played by Beatrice Straight, Philip Bourneuf and Shepperd Strudwick. The holocaust in ancient Thebes had more suspense, tension and clash of strong personalities, as well as more biting language, than TV screens have witnessed all year...
...Murrow had another good Person to Person program, with Lillian Gish arguing charmingly but ineptly for a Secretary of Fine Arts to be added to the President's Cabinet, and Robert Q. Lewis surprising few viewers by denying that he is a comedian. On Omnibus, Composer Leonard Bernstein analysed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and showed, with orchestral help, how Beethoven made repeated false starts and fruitless excursions in composing his masterpiece...
...Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS) returned for its third season of promised "experimental" TV. The only out-of-the-ordinary feature was a TV book review of Fred Allen's Treadmill to Oblivion, which tells the story of the life and death of his famed radio show. Allen read some acid commentary on the industry (including the old saw that "advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission"), and there was a pleasant nostalgia to his re-creation of Allen's Alley. The remainder of Omnibus' 90 minutes was devoted to some mildly interesting but hardly experimental films...
...Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Returns for its third season...