Word: playlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comics; Lauren Bacall and David Niven co-starred in a surprisingly successful adaptation of Irwin Shaw's memorable short story, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, while Helen Hayes and Thomas Mitchell gave a professional tug to viewers' heartstrings in a Max Shulman playlet. The show closed with a well-staged and effective few words from President Eisenhower. Jubilee was easily the best single TV program since the Ford anniversary program of last year starring Mary Martin and Ethel Merman...
...best spectacular yet. Directed by Hollywood's Otto Preminger and starring Ginger Rogers in three short plays by Noel Coward, the show started slowly with a vaudeville skit that was notable for the expertness of Ginger's cockney accent. The second playlet, Still Life, co-starred Ginger with Britain's Trevor Howard, but it lacked the pathos of either the 1936 Broadway original (starring Noel Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence) or the movie version, Brief Encounter. But in the third number, Shadow Play, Ginger was romantically believable in the touching dream sequence. Gloria Vanderbilt posed beautifully...
...about the spirit of man-his soul or something like that." But his music spoke for itself: there is hardly an orchestra in the West that has not played some of his seven symphonies or his eight concertos; his piano pieces are standards on recital programs, and his musical playlet, Peter and the Wolf, is a happy classic with U.S. children...
...budgeted $30,000 for recorded programs for Latin America in one quarter of 1952, $28,000 went into a "flimsy and foolish" playlet. The Eye of the Eagle, about a roving superscientist with an atomic eye that could see through walls...
Douglas Fairbanks Presents (Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBCTV) is a filmed drama series made in Britain with a high professional polish. But the competence of the first show, a playlet dealing with an insurance agent falsely accused of murder and attempted rape, was overshadowed by the glossy commercials delivered in pear-shaped tones by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. himself, and including asides on the Magna Carta and the American Revolution, and the suggestion that the international set is rapidly abandoning pink champagne in favor of the more dizzying delights of Rheingold beer...