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Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). S. Ji Perelman, a long-toothed pixie who has never been able to believe his eyes, gathers together three of his stories about Hollywood's screaming Mimis under the collective title Malice in Wonderland...
...Sponsor Du Font's chemical resources. The score - his first for TV-seemed not so much by Cole Porter as against him. Cyril Ritchard's sporadic drollery clashed with the eager droolings of the teen-ager's rage, Sal Mineo, whose Aladdin only maddened. As for Perelman, even his "native sportiveness" was lacking. He would probably have done better with one of the earthier versions he came across in his research, "but they were too spectacular...
...Pont Show of the Month: When Humorist S. J. Perelman talked with interviewers about his libretto for CBS's musical Aladdin, he mused: "It is an extremely simple story known to every unintelligent schoolboy. Very little exists beyond the bare bones of the legend. It will take 90 minutes. That means a whole lot of me ringue." Producer Richard (Cinderella} Lewine spooned up $350,000 worth of meringue, enough to satisfy all the princes of Persia - and give viewers indigestion...
Peterson supported Thomas Stalker '58, the candidate of the Hodel-Perelman-Thompson faction in last March's bitterly contested presidential election. This election prompted charges of vote-buying from both sides and finally wound up before the Student Council and the Administration. The Council recommended suspension of the HRYC charter and attempted to seize the books of the club...
...Month, offering ten 90-minute spectaculars: Paul Gregory's Crescendo, a mishmash of American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical edition of Junior Miss; and a Cole PorterS. J. Perelman musicollaboration on Alladin. To plug the Ford Motor Co.'s new Edsel, Crooners Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra will team up for the first time on TV. And Producer John Houseman's new Omnibus-type show, The Seven Lively Arts, will kick off in November with Perelman...