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Given Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to start with, it would be hard to go wrong, and the Children's Theatre production of Mario Siletti's adaptation does not. With Barbara Bisco in the lead backed by an energetic cast, jolly costuming, and a musical score by Charles Gross, the show provides an hour of bright relaxation in the middle of the February slush...
Shirl Conway, the harassed New York visitor, is also the show's gayest figure. Richard Derr is engaging as her city beau; and Gloria Marlowe and Barbara Cook make two fresh and appealing Amish ingenues. Tamiris has devised some dances hat have lure as well as local color, and Raoul Pene du Bois some pleasant sets...
...Violent Men (Columbia) has more than its share of brutality: fires, murders, fist fights, stampedes. This time Eddie is a crippled, scheming cattle baron, the husband of beautiful, scheming Barbara Stanwyck. They have a sweet, innocent daughter (Dianne Foster) who would like to play bridle & groom with an upstanding horseman (Glenn Ford). But what will daddy say? Nothing much, since empire-mad Robinson is so dumb he doesn't even know that his wife has been inspecting the hay at close quarters with his brother (Brian Keith). Relatively unscratched at the end are Good Guy Ford and Starlet Foster...
With his eye fixed on Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabon, whom he has gallantly promised to marry, Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa dispatched two lawyers to the Mexican divorce mill at Cuernavaca. Their legal mission: to find out if Rubirosa's estranged fourth wife, Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton, was entitled, during a recent fling in Cuernavaca, to call herself Princess Troubetzkoy. Rubirosa's likely ploy: if Babs is still billing herself as a princess, then maybe her 1951 Cuernavacan divorce from her fourth husband, Lithuanian Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, was no good − and Rubirosa 's marriage...
Professional Father (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS) has Actor Steve Dunne pretending to be a child psychologist in what are described as "all kinds of hilarious adventures." Helping him to make a chump of himself are his wife, Barbara Billingsley, and the inevitable two children (Ted Marc and Beverly Washburn). As a psychologist, Dunne advises other fathers how to deal with their children but, naturally, it takes his all-wise wife to set him right on how to handle...