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...Trail of Superman. London's stories grew directly out of his life. He was born (1876) in rowdy, brawling San Francisco, the illegitimate son of an itinerant Irish astrologer. His mother, abandoned by the stargazer, shot herself (the injury proved slight), and then married John London, a decent man who couldn't stick to any trade and therefore was glamorized by young Jack as "a soldier, trapper, backwoodsman and wanderer." Anyone with such a background might be excused for thinking human nature too complicated to figure out, and London's works-18 novels, 20 collections of short...
When George Bernard Shaw and Giacomo Puccini brightened TV screens last week, the countinghouse critics scoffed; CULTURE GETS TRENDEX SHELLACKING headlined Variety. Indeed, the 90-minute live Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Shaw's Man and Superman, starring Maurice Evans and Joan Greenwood, ran behind its opposition with a Trendex rating of 12. And the Ed Sullivan Show fell off eight points to 33 as it featured Prima Donna Maria Meneghini Callas and Baritone George London in an 18-minute scene from Tosca...
...Superman was played with all the high style of Actor-Manager Evans' Broadway hit production of 1947-and seen by perhaps 15 million viewers, roughly 45 times the paying customers who attended all 150 performances. Said Sponsor Joyce C. Hall: "I would rather have a satisfied 8 million in the audience than a dissatisfied 24 million...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Shaw's Man and Superman, with Maurice Evans, Joan Greenwood...
...years ago the words "sex" or "perversion" or "degenerate" would have seemed adequate to explain why two rich, intellectual boys should make a game of murder. Levin is not content with this explanation. He points out that Friedrich Nietzsche had introduced them to the idea of the superman, "beyond good and evil." A really superior man, they reasoned-in one of those gloomy blunders which snarl up the scribbled notebook of adolescence-could put himself above and beyond society by the successful commission of a pointless crime. They burned sheds, robbed fraternity houses, cheated at cards; and their IQs were...