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Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). With Dick Powell, Teresa Wright, Cesar Romero. Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Cinemactress Janet Gaynor, and Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Football (Sat. 2:30 p.m., ABC). Wisconsin v. Rice. Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). With Judy Holliday, Steve Allen, Dick Shawn. The Bob Hope Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Rosemary Clooney. The Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Man Who Came to Dinner with Monty Woolley, Merle Oberon, Bert Lahr, Buster Keaton, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, Reginald Gardiner...
...freshman matches produced an unlimited class champion a day ahead of time when Matthews' Pete Banks, who earlier decisioned Wigglesworth's Pete Gaynor, won the fall from his teammate, Langdon Smith. Smith shortly after had taken a fall from Apley's Dong Keith...
...when Silent Cinemactress Janet Gaynor won Hollywood's first Academy Award for her acting in Seventh Heaven, a gold-plated Oscar statuette was worth about $150. The value of most gewgaws has risen since then, but Oscars have outstripped them all. Hollywood publicists have long since discovered that these "noncommercial" citations for artistic merit have a specific box-office value: a mere Oscar nomination can add about $100,000 to a movie's gross. An actual award, if well exploited, may be worth...
...Miss Gaynor scampering around culivens the movie and her songs manage to salvage several scenes, but unfortunately she is often cut short soon after she starts to sing. Her namesake, Mitzi Green, also turns in an adequate performance as a Broadway Big-sister. But Brady's portrayal of the bookie tails to do even partial justice to several situations in the plot which are in trinsically annusing. There is the usual gallery of Run von crecentics, and they are handled little better...
...Jones who seemed to have no scuse of transition and the intelligent use of fading shots. Perhaps the most amazing break in this very chopply arranged tin comes near the end when what is supposed to be a tender courtroom scene suddenly turns into a burlesque show with Miss Gaynor's legs in the center of the screen...