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...Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander...
...spent much of his spare time working out comedy routines, later found work delivering sober-faced, simple monologues in Chicago nightclubs. Then he made some of the better-known TV shows (Ed Sullivan, Hoagy Carmichael) as a guest comic. He was the big splash last month on David 0. Selznick's four-network TV show Diamond Jubilee of Light (TIME, Nov. 8), delivering a deadpan talk on electronic brains that probably set science back three centuries...
...best TV shows of last week-and perhaps of this year-originated in Hollywood and were created by veteran moviemakers. In Diamond Jubilee of Light, Producer David O. Selznick (Gone With the Wind) had a chance to show what he could do on TV-and it was plenty. Sponsored, but unobtrusively, by U.S. public-utility companies to celebrate Edison's invention of the electric bulb, the two-hour program began a little pompously with a Biblical quotation (naturally -"Let there be light!"). But it soon came down from the clouds with an amusing review of early disasters...
...shows of this excellence require staggering amounts of money and exhaustive preparation: Selznick put in four months of planning and three weeks of intensive rehearsals with work days of "seldom less than 18 hours." Ordinary TV is not geared to operate on this kind of schedule, nor can ordinary sponsors regularly pay this sort of money. It is probably just as well. If viewers saw more than one or two shows a year like Jubilee, they would become badly dissatisfied with their regular fare...
Diamond Jubilee of Light (Sun. 9-11 p.m., all networks). Salute to Thomas A. Edison, with Helen Hayes, Joseph Gotten, Judith Anderson; produced by David O. Selznick...