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...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A one-shot program with Sid Caesar and Art Carney, two of TV's most appealing irregulars...
...Poor Soul, Reggie Van Gleason III. (Reggie also crept into Gleason's performance of Joe, the philosophical boozer, in Playhouse 90's otherwise first-rate production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life.) Perhaps Gleason's worst mistake: replacing Art Carney and Audrey Meadows, who were actors, and could play up to Gleason's roaring diatribes and outrageous double takes, with Buddy Hackett, a lowbrow buffoon funny on his own but not much help to Gleason...
Finding the man to play Harold Hill was a more complicated problem. Television Comic Milton Berle wanted the part. TV Actor Art Carney was considered, and so was Dancer Ray Bolger. Da Costa had seen Robert Preston in a few summer stock shows; Bloomgarden, too, knew Preston's work. Says Da Costa: "Preston has energy and he has reality. He's an actor who can project himself larger than life. And he has enough sureness of technique and enough urbanity to portray the con man and the opportunist without resorting to a wax mustache. The part calls...
...medicine. They also provide training for Christian Science nurses, who learn their techniques of prayer and care in three-year courses (regular registered nurses need only a one-year Christian Science course). Enrollments, according to the report, are "at the highest point in many years." Said Leonard Tillotson Carney, newly elected President of the Mother Church (he was converted to Christian Science from the Congregational Church when his infant son was healed by a practitioner): "It is yielding to materiality that blocks our progress...
...lose his way in the process. Laid in a turn-of-the-century Manhattan tenement, The Rope Dancers is a stubbornly harsh story of a lacerated family. Hard-working Margaret Hyland is a rigid, arrogant, unappeasably bitter woman with a lazy, feckless would-be writer of a husband (Art Carney) and an eleven-year-old daughter born with six fingers on one hand. Beyond having brought the girl up to feel like someone with two heads, and having kept her away from school and other children, Margaret - while flaunting her contempt for her husband - does not know how to convey...