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Radio and TV Fred Takes A Coy Protege PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: DECEMBER 4, 1954 Third TV 'Macbeth4 Is the Best ii euevflsnwim WDTV 4 WCAE ABC 1250 WJAC 6 wwsw Independent 570 FM 94.5 KDKA NBC 1020 FM WJAS Mutual-1320 FM 99.7 KQV Columbia 1410 WTRF I WSTY 7 9 WENS 16 By JOHN CROSBY NEW YORK "Macbeth," the shortest and tightest of William Shakespeare's great SATURDAY MORNING SATURDAY MORNING Cordic Co. No School News; D'ne's Action Theater Today Kids Corner 9 9 Soft Focux Cowboy Corral :15 Morning Inn :45 Mahoney :45 Midnight Old St. Pat'k Guest Star Lutherans Story Chest 4. Starlets on Parade Birdie Shut-ins News (9:55) News: Spts. chased offstage by the murderers, was killed right before our eyes, as was her son.

It was a little unnecessary. On the whole? though, it was a fine two hours of television and I hope Hallmark gives us some more Shakespeare some time. Hallmark's next big production will be Gian Carlo 1 1 i's fine opera, "Amahl and the Night Visitors," on December 19. Bob Benson Show Mr. Whiz Happy Felton 10 10 :00.Happy's :15 Party :30 :45 Upon :15 a Time Inn :45 Hour of.

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The latest, Maurice Evans production on Hallmark "Hall of Fame" Sunday after SATURDAY AFTERNOON SATURDAY AFTERNOON News Serenade Wth. News; Bee Big Top The Big Top Cartoons :15 Polkas R. Cross Sh. News Sam Kaye Farm-Home Spell. Bee 12 12 :15 :30 :45 Holiday H'se TV College Rural Seen Purple Sage :30 Catholic Band Music News Blind Assc.

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The listaff member of the ape family made her debut on this week and will be appearing regularly from now on. 4 4 :00 Rec'd Hits :15 :30 :45 Oakley :45 Theater Western Theater Finest 50 Film NTws; Carter Pop Music 5 5 Hits Hits Spts. vs. Rams :45 Santa's Pl'ne CARE for Christmas Join the News Roy Rogers Big Town 44 Joe Mann News Navy SATURDAY EYENING SATURDAY EVENING News Song- Kloss Inn The Greatest :00 :15 6 6 Hits Hits Tucker Long; News Tello Test Thy Kingdom Come I've Got a Secret Mickey Rooney News; Sp'rts Finest 50 Fifty; News News Pit Traynor Right to Knowledge time Newsroom Chem. You :30 :45 Sportscene Indus P'rade ance, while still too mannered and declamatory, was the best he's given on television to dale.

His sibilance especially with such lines as "Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires" is still a little distressing, filling the living room with little hissing noises that would be more appropriate in an Alka-Seltzer commercial. Miss Anderson, who has not always been my favorite actress, was perfectly wonderful here and her sleepwalking scene was as fine and touching as anything I've ever seen. "Macbeth" is not the most poetic of Shakespeare's plays but it has some of the best theater the old master ever wrote. Besides the sleepwalking scene and Banquo's ghost at a banquet, there is the scene where Macduff hears the news that his wife and children have been murdered, as economical and moving a bit of playwriting as Shakespeare ever did.

It was a scintillating production, conceivably too scintillating. I saw it in color. There's a lot of pageantry in "Macbeth" and the costume department ran amok, the actors in reds and yellows and purples. I'm a great one for lavish use of color, but I think maybe there was just a little too much. It was a great big produc-too, with an astonishing variety of settings castle courtyards, corridors, stairs, battlements which were photographed from all angles including one shot from almost directly overhead.

It was a dazzling display of live television's jever increasing virtuosity and flexibility and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Shakespeare, I think, would have loved television and would have been a very fine writer for it. "Macbeth" is a bloody play and there was, I'm afraid, entirely too much blood for the home screen. Both Mac-beth's and Lady Macbeth's hands were the bloodiest I have ever seen after the murder of Duncan. Banquo's ghost was smeared with the stuff.

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The show will revolve around a theme concerning the "Y's" battle against juvenile delinquency and will be semi-documentary in form. "Down You Go," Dr. Bergen Evans' panel quiz, will return to Channel 2 in about two weeks. The show will ha 3 an all new panel and will originate from New York instead of Chicago. An educational film sponsored by the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Arthritis and matism Foundation, entitled "The Open Door," will be shown on Channel 2 tomorrow at 12:15 p.

m. Calvin Jones, the popular Steubenville athlete, will be a guest on Jackie Gleason's show tonight at 8 on Channels 2 and 9. Eartha Kitt, Kirk Douglas, Carol Haney and the Ames Brothers head Ed Sullivan's guest list tomorrow night. :00 :15 :30 :45 :00 :15 :45 I Married Joan Donald O'Connor Imogene Coca Show Jimmy Durante Two for the Money Dancing Party News Two for the Money Masquerade Party News noon was far and away the most spectacular and to me the most satisfying. "Hall of Fame" normally runs a half hour, but the Hallmark people like to make an occasional big splash, especially around holiday time when they sell a lot of greeting cards, and they bought up a full two hours.

This meant "Macbeth" could be presented practically uncut even the drunken porter scene, one of the-more dispensable scenes In Shakespeare, was left in and the grand desfgn of the play could shine forth in all its meticulous and powerful detail. "Bacbeth" is the story of the corrosive effects of ambition and power on the soul of a man who was once a noble creature. If Macbeth had not been quite a fine man, this bloody tale would have no stature but he was, and the dissolution of his character from the very moment of his first murder is a very moving, almost clinical study of the conscience of man. Shakespeare's foreknowledge of modern psychiatry, one of the most wonderful mysteries of literature, is most clearly revealed in this play, especially In the sleepwalking scene. Maurice Evans, who played Macbeth, and Judith Anderson, who played Lady Macbeth, are two of the most leather-lunged players on our stage.

Happily, someone got to them with the intelligence that television is an electronic miracle, that a whisper will carry all the way to Chicago and beyond. Their performances were models of restraint and Evans' perform George Gobel Chicago Theater News; Tom T. Riggs Loretta Young Hit Parade George Gobel Hit Parade That's My Boy Willie 10 10 :15 :45 :00 :15 :30 :45 Adlai Stevenson Louisville Orchestra Hit Parade Party Line Accent on Melody :00 iFord :00 All Star Final News T. Riggs 4 :15 Theater The Vise 4 To Be News Long Spts; Boyer Party Line 11 11 Mayor of the Town Name That Tune CBS News Music for Reading News Lynch, News Dance; News Nws Scores Chronoscope Tri-State Theater :30 :15 :30 :45 Nws; Dngr :45 luanger Wrestling a. it Sonja Henie stars in the Max Liebman "Spotlight" Spectacular on Channels 6 and 7 tomorrow night at 7:30.

Jimmy Durante will be a special guest on the show. "Goodyear Playhouse" on Channels 6 and 7 tomorrow night will star Doris Dowling in "Last Boat from Messina," a World War II drama by David Shaw. Mary Martin will star in a special "Peter Pan" broadcast on KDKA today at 11 a. m. The Met opera on WCAE this afternoon starting at 2, is "Andrea Chenier," with Mario Del Monaco in the title role.

Adlai Stevenson's speech before the Democratic National Committee Victory Dinner tonight will be broadcast by KQV, starting at 10. Joe Mann debuts with his three hour KQV Saturday show this afternoon at 3. The Boston Symphony will play Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 6" and Stravinsky's "Orpheus," a ballet in three scenes, on KDKA tomorrow at 7 p. m.

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