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This was the week NBC unlimbered its big guns to recapture network dominance from rival CBS. With an expensive ($35,000 a week) film series called Medic, and with the first of its $300,000 "spectaculars," the network hopes to convince viewers that they should twirl their dials NBC-ward. What viewers got in the spectacular line was a musical comedy, Satins and Spurs, starring tireless Betty Hutton in her first TV appearance, and produced by Max Liebman, who won his spurs over the five-year run of NBC's Your Show of Shows...
...Sweden's pretty Princess Margaretha, 19, eldest granddaughter of King Gustaf VI, stepped out in Stockholm to take her first twirl at the traditional cadet ball held by the Royal War College...
...Space People-imaginative and humorous conceptions of beings from other planets. Pieces are put together on a string which the child can twirl to make the toy wave its arms or jiggle its legs...
Father's idea is that daughter should go to the "Boston Physical Culture School" and learn to twirl Indian clubs like Miss Glavey (Mary Wickes), the head of the women's division at his gymnastic society. The scene where father participates in an exhibition of mass calisthenics, and drops his pants in the act, is a hilarious bit of nonsense that is somehow brought off without dropping the mood of the film at the same time. "Goodness," says mother, as father's pants hang about his knees and the spectators roar, "I must remember to fix those...
John Krizna's sharpness made the Mazurka one of the evening's high-points. Usually a fine virtuoso, Krizna is too flashy to be a good supporting partner. Yet his Drummer divertissement in the Graduation Ball was a disappointment--probably because he had to twirl drum sticks as well as execute some complicated steps. The ballet itself was unusually gay and frivolous due to the excellence of the cast. Throughout the entire performance, they projected themselves well and always danced as a group...