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Saunders clearly intends to follow the same track as he did at the N. & W.; merge and make more money. He cut costs by modernizing rolling stock and linking up with the complementary Virginian, and earned $65 million after taxes on revenues of $250 million last year, while the Pennsy's profits were only $12.5 million on $906 million. Saunders will aim now to bring off the much-discussed merger between the Pennsy and the New York Central-a combine that Saunders himself would probably head...
...arty, erotic, and somewhat constipated, centering on a noble youth who seemed to have trouble deciding in what direction his basic current flowed. It seemed to dazzle the audience, however, since the Repertoire Workshop's ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin...
...Virginian (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Tonight a rich South American, played by Ricardo Montalban, attacks the ranch with an army of hired gunmen...
Nearly all the new shows are an hour long. So to outdo everybody, NBC has produced TV's first go-minute western, outdoing themselves as well. Called The Virginian and starring James Drury and Lee J. Cobb this fantastically hyperthyroid oat is only tenuously based on Owen null novel. The background is beautifully filmed in Wyoming in color, and, true enough, the dialogue rings. But the stories could happen in Flatbush, Beirut, or Port of Spain. A real western is an American commedia dell' arte, a stylized and inviolable cliche that is easily destroyed by subtlety and depth...
...Sept. 19 The Virginian (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).-PREMIÈRE of a new series more or less based on Owen Wister's novel, with James Drury as Gary Cooper...