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...make something satisfactory out of The Adventures of King Pausole. Albert Willemetz's libretto, based on a novel by Pierre Louys, is an incoherent and frequently boring farce, moving from one extended gag to the next within a ridiculous plot. The pre-occupation with sex makes even the usual Hasty Pudding obsession seem mild, while the amours of various hermaphroditic characters is embarrassingly unfunny. The play's tasteless broadness clashes incongruously with Arthur Honegger's witty and sophisticated score which is its only saving grace...
College News Conference (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The usual student panel recesses for a tenth-anniversary Salute to NATO, by the foreign ministers of Britain, France, West Germany and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter...
What generated President Eisenhower's interest was a recent Federal Communications Commission decision handed down after a Lar Daly complaint. Running for Chicago mayor, as usual, in this year's primary campaign, Splinter Candidate Daly howled that the TV stations had slighted him in favor of the other candidates-Democrat Incumbent Richard J. Daley and Republican Timothy P. Sheehan. The FCC agreed, ruled that Daly had time coming. Rather than contest the decision, most stations grudgingly put Lar ("America First") Daly (for legalized gambling, against public schools) on the air. WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago...
...will have to come from Congress, which has the power to amend or strike out Section 315. But until the Attorney General or Congress finds an answer, Chicago still has Lar Daly on its wave length, and radio-TV newsmen elsewhere are wary. Wiped out in the primary as usual, Daly bought an ad in the Chicago Tribune to announce himself as a write-in candidate for mayor: "Eligible to all-free and equal and purchasable TV-radio time. TV-radio licensees-take notice! Forewarned is forearmed...
...Franger contends that Bosch was really a free-spirited nature worshiper; if so, the message of The Crowning might be that man acts through compulsions that are beyond his control. Or perhaps Bosch is saying: Christ is not mocked. But whatever the message, this painting lacks Bosch's usual tormented agony, and may have been his moment of peace...