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Even the worst shows are occasionally capable of entertainment??and even enlightenment. "Besides," says a major Hollywood packager, "it's not fair to compare commercial programming and Sesame Street. Give me $8,000,000, and I can come up with educational programming too." But ABC's Chuck Jones sees Sesame Street much the same way kids doas an entryway. "O.K., Sesame Street isn't perfect," he says. "But it began something. Walt Disney opened up character animation. Sesame Street opened children's TV to taste and wit and substance. It made the climate right for improvement...
...Love Doctor (Paramount). In the theatre this was The Boomerang, an unpretentious comedy about a doctor and a pretty nurse. As a talking picture built around that able farceur Richard Dix, it is satisfactory entertainment???even at times uproarious. It may be fairly evident when the doctor tells his nurse how to arouse the symptoms of love in a patient that she is going to practice the knowledge on him, but obviousness rather accentuates than spoils the comedy. Best shot: Dix telling his fiancée about his new job at the lunatic asylum...
President Motta of Switzerland addressed 150 celebrities at a dinner and the celebrities?including Mary Garden, the company of the Opera Comique (Paris) and the orchestra of the Paris Conservatory responded with evening after evening of inimitable entertainment??? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture...
...dozen jury members will thereupon witness a performance of the play and meditate upon its merits and demerits. If nine of the meditations are finally unfavorable, a decision will be rendered to the producer. He will proceed to delete offensive sections of his entertainment???or withdrew it altogether...
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