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...sometimes happens when TV programs reach for quality, some turned out to be merely earnest bores. On NBC, the Hallmark production of Maxwell Anderson's Winterset proved that the living-room screen can be an embarrassing setting for characters who speak stilted blank verse (with Hamlet echoes) and live amid the topical excitement of another decade. Playhouse go (CBS) chose to grapple with second-rate Shaw, and even an excellent cast-Robert Morley, Claire Bloom, Siobhan McKenna-could not cram the rapid-fire sex and social relations of Misalliance into a really meaningful hour and a half...
...prepped vaguely for his mother's perfume business at Columbia University, spent more time on Broadway than Morningside Heights. Even before college he was radio's first Jack Armstrong, the Ail-American Boy (salary: $125); as a sophomore he wangled a part in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset...
Died. Gertrude Maynard Anderson, 48, Canadian-born exactress, and second wife of Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Maxwell (Both Your Houses, Winterset) Anderson; by her own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning) ; near New City...
Best Plays (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Winterset, with Burgess Meredith, Maureen Stapleton...
Graziano. This is particularly unfortunate because in its first year on TV, Celanese has put on more grownup drama than almost any of its rivals. There have been plays by Eugene O'Neill (Ah, Wilderness!, Anna Christie), Maxwell Anderson (Winterset, Saturday's Children), Elmer Rice (Street Scene) and Robert Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest...