Word: weds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neill play, The Straw, a youthful (1918), three-act romantic tragedy, was presented on NBC's Kraft Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T.). It would have been difficult to pick an O'Neill drama that had a better chance of not coming off. It is the unhappy tale of a consumptive Irish girl, who falls in love with a writer at a sanitarium and wastes away when the writer is cured and leaves. The writer returns, and out of compassion gives her one straw of hope for life: the promise of his love. Although O'Neill...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Gambler, starring Jack Carson...
...most disappointing of the new summer shows was last week's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.), which switched from ABC to CBS and began a new dramatic series with The Meanest Man in the World. It was a farce about a kind young man with a mean old father who demanded that the mortgage be foreclosed on a defenseless old widow and a deserted orphan on Christmas Eve. Much of the writing was pretty good, particularly when the father was teaching his son the first principles of meanness: "Nice guys don't win ball games...
Kraft Television Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). The Straw by Eugene O'Neill...
Front Row Center (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Kitty Foyle, starring Janet Blair...