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Television Opera (Tues. 11 p.m., NBC) brings back NBC's talented Peter Herman Adler & staff for eight once-a-month productions of opera in English. The opener: Leoncavallo's Pagliaci. In spite of the singing of Soprano Elaine Malbin (Nedda) and the acting of Tenor Joseph Mordino (Canio), Pagliaci nearly fell flat for want of action and poor lighting. Even so, Director Adler proved his point that television deserves opera. Next in the series: Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame; GianCarlo Menotti's untitled opera, specially commissioned...
...like almanacs, and are coveted only by that species whose cocktail party coup is to name the starting lineup of the 1909 Harvard-Yale debacle. Yale football, however, with its Pudge Heffelfinger, Ted Coy, Little Boy Blue Albie Booth , a great winning record, and a sensationalism now fostered by Herman Hickman offers a natural source material of interest to football fans who never sat in the New Haven saucer...
...students can play. He maintains that Yale, which led college football into the swamp has now found the proper perspective in amateurism. One would like to think Cohane is right. If every Old Blue, however, reads this tale of the days when Yale meant football, and weeps for Herman, then scares up some more talent for the Fat Man, Yale's amateurism might well become as mythical as Frank Merriwell...
Football teams are always rebuilding. Herman Hickman is busy reviving the New Haven bulldog; Lloyd Jordan is "bringing back" Harvard football; Alva Kelley is resuscitating the moribund Bruin. These gentlemen, and, of course, numerous others, are striving to return their employee's teams to pedestals of former glory; they are all rebuilding...
Though Lace on Her Petticoat made a lukewarm impression on Manhattan critics, it impressed Herman Shumlin's fellow producers mightily. Reason: the play, first legitimate production of the new season, cost only $36,000 to put on, and can survive on a weekly gross of $8,100. Despite adverse notices, it appeared at week's end that Shumlin's low operating costs might enable his backers to get something of a run for their money...