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...cauldron. As the new theater's dedicatory play, he had picked The Merchant of Venice-and the New York Board of Rabbis loudly protested. In the part of Shylock, said the rabbis, Shakespeare had perpetrated "a distortion and defamation of our people and our faith.'' Through WCBS-TV, the entire city would have a chance to see the performance, and that was what bothered the rabbis most. "The television audience will be a mass audience," they argued. "It will include impressionable young people and teenagers, and many of its adults would not pass muster on the score...
...Trip to Czardis, on Manhattan's WCBS-TV, told of two small boys in the Florida pine woods who go with their mother and uncle to see their father, sick in a nearby town. As it turns out, he is not really sick; he is in prison, and a crowd is already collecting to watch him hang. He says goodbye to the boys, giving one a watch, the other its chain. The older boy understands, his brother does...
...better sort of television has long been the province of Robert Herridge, 42, once called by Variety "the literary conscience of the medium." Using no sets but considerable imagination, he originated WCBS's Camera Three seven years ago, did productions of Hamlet, Moby Dick, The Heart of Darkness, a ten-part Huckleberry Finn. As a summer producer for the once-memorable Studio One, he did the fascinating Mr. Arcularis, by Poet Conrad Aiken, and Steinbeck's Flight...
...Almost as unlikely as Wyatt Earp at Carnegie Hall, but much more welcome, the famed chamber-music ensemble made its debut on TV last week in an hour's recital of pieces by such rare television tunesmiths as Beethoven. Debussy and César Franck. Manhattan's WCBS and Metropolitan Educational Television Association deserved the hosannas they got for putting on a rare treat. They also fell into a pitfall of TV culture worship. It occurred to no one to point out that chamber music was returning to the living room, where it started, and to stage...
...sinister substitute for books, is no more likely to encourage worthwhile reading than corn pone is to whet a taste for caviar. But last week the opening of a televised New York University course in comparative literature lifted the highbrows' eyebrows. Though aired by Manhattan's WCBS-TV at the brain-taxing hour of 6:30 a.m., Assistant Professor Floyd Zulli Jr.'s Sunrise Semester started a rush in the city's bookshops for the first volume on his reading list: Stendhal's The Red and the Black. Some sleepy viewers garbled...