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KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Julie Harris stars as a homely schoolteacher wooed by a handsome fisherman who is determined to get hold of a ring she purchased in a curio shop. Color...
...Britain 200 years ago, the thirst for the picturesque was almost as powerful as the thirst for port. Since Queen Elizabeth's day, there had been a lively interest in the "luxuriance of fancy" and "fayr-est workmanshippe" that assumed the Orient to be one vast curio shop. Toward the end of the 18th century, travelers began to bring back reports of more solid architectural wonders to dazzle the imaginations of stay-at-home Britons, and artists started to make sketching trips to China and India to satisfy this curiosity about all things Eastern. Most important of these...
...where old wooden dhows with odd-looking lateen sails load up for trips to the mainland. They can buy French perfumes, Indian craft jewelry, or copies of the famed, huge oaken "elephant doors," which are covered with spikes to keep elephants from leaning on them. They are an unusual curio, since Zanzibar does not have elephants and never...
...fashion fittings in her suite, with the dresses dis patched through the lobby under canvas by her couturier, Oleg Cassini. Also under wraps: a massive Mr. John hatbox that surely contained Jackie's Easter bonnet. At odd moments during the week, she inspected the art galleries and curio shops that abound about her Madison Avenue hotel, but her only known purchase was an antique French cachepot...
Perhaps, had there never been a King and I. a South Pacific-no. that won't help. Well, perhaps had there never be fore been any exotic musicals at all. 13 Daughters would have emerged a real curiosity instead of a curio, the libretto could have been forgiven its dullness, and what is lilting in the music would have blotted out what is banal. But on a Broad way that has offered exotic musicals and to spare, even what is reasonably good in 13 Daughters-such as a few of Rod Alexander's dances-still seems reminiscent...