Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf (ABC) proved to be one of the most engaging shows ever to be seen on TV. Actor Carney was fine as a new character in the old fairy tale, but the wonder of the hour-long show was Bil and Cora Baird's 50 animal puppets, who achieved something rare-a fairy tale mixed with true gaiety, a child's world edged by real irony. That was the spirit, too, of Ogden Nash's lyrics, notably in the wolf's lament ("Aesop launched the slander/ I should have eaten Aesop...
...full of garish dramatic effects. The Soldier, based on a story by Roald Dahl, is a moody study of a World War II veteran who returns home psychologically scarred, suspects his wife of trying to drive him insane, and eventually winds up in a mental institution. To this curdled tale Composer Engel fitted a score shot through with warm lyrical flights that died suddenly in derisively dissonant evocations of the chaos in the soldier's mind. Engel's fellow Jacksonians responded enthusiastically, and the mayor expressed the city's official gratitude by proclaiming the days...
CATCH AS CATCH CAN, by Frances and Richard Lockridge (Lippincott; $2.75), "is a short and attractive tale [of ] persecution and chase...
...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill is as long-winded as ever, but it's a powerful wind that blows a lot of good in this tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling illusions. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley...
...Visitors, by Mary McMinnies. It may not be true that foreigners are funny, that men are silly, and that dictatorships are absurd, but Novelist McMinnies makes it seem so in this tale of diplomatic hanky-panky behind the Iron Curtain...