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Manhattan cops showed no compassion for Irish-born Actor Edward Mulhare, Rex Harrison's successor as the tweedy Professor Higgins in long-running My Fair Lady. Thrice in the same day, twice in the same spot, traffic patrolmen hung $15 tickets on Mulhare's white Dodge convertible for illegal parking. Late that afternoon Mulhare made a fast getaway to Moscow along with Fair Lady's national company and 72 tons of scenery, props and luggage. Five chartered planes carried the troupe for an eight-week Russian tour. Fair Lady tickets were selling like cabbages at 60 rubles...
...figuratively assassinated in a bit called "City Blights," and Sweden's Cinema Director Ingmar Bergman is taken apart in a parody called "Seven Sealed Strawberries." Another regular feature, "Great Books," pours cholesterol into the heart of literature. In one session, as an adult evening class discusses Oedipus Rex, a woman declares brightly: "I think he knew it all the time...
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Rex Harrison stars in Dear Arthur, Gore Vidal's adaptation of a comedy-drama by Ferenc Molnar...
Died. Reginald ("Rex") Brasher, 91, Brooklyn-born gambler, adventurer, painter-ornithologist whose 874 plates include every known type of North American bird, outnumbering by far the work of his predecessor, John James Audubon; in New Milford, Conn...
...Walter Kerr, 46, onetime drama professor at Catholic University and since 1951 theater critic for the New York Herald Tribune, who reads all scripts, adapted Oedipus Rex for Omnibus, is now adapting Richard Marsh's The Datchett Diamonds for the new classical mystery series, which he thought up. Kerr would like to do the historical plays of Shakespeare, in order, on consecutive nights, from King John to Henry VIII, is meanwhile having a rough time finding a Sherlock Holmes story for the mystery series because A. Conan Doyle's plots were so "simple-minded...