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Take the candy trade. A janitress at a food store studied the tastes of sweet-toothed small fry, concluded that what they liked most were toy-shaped confections. She went home, out of sugared batter molded a swan with raisin eyes, baked it, and promptly sold it to a schoolboy for 2 rubles. Encouraged, she turned more and more batter into dough, spawned a swarm of home bakeries among women in the Moscow suburb of Stolbovaya. Was such initiative encouraged? Moskovskaya Pravda urged the bureaucrats of the "Red Front" candy factory to undercut these "unsanitary private confectioners" by mass-producing...
...Salute to the American Theater (CBS, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.). Franchot Tone introduces scenes from Broadway shows- Waiting for Lefty, Inside U.S.A., South Pacific, Call Me Mister, Watch on the Rhine, There Shall Be No Night, West Side Story, Raisin in the Sun-to demonstrate "the American theater's continuing fight against bigotry." With Phyllis Newman, Eli Wallach, Tom Poston, William Shatner, Bill Tabbert...
Holdovers from last season still going strong: My Fair Lady and The Music Man (musicals), La Plume de Ma Tante (French revue), A Raisin in the Sun (a moving play set in Chicago's Harlem...
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still peers with tenderness into Chicago's Harlem; La Plume de Ma Tante maintains its Gallic gallop; My Fair Lady and The Music Man top the list of musical comedies...
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still casts its warm, affectionate illumination on Negro life on Chicago's South Side; La Plume de Ma Tante remains a vintage French revue; My Fair Lady and The Music Man head the musical comedy division...