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Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Grand Prize, Ron Alexander's Broadway play, with June Lockhart, John Newland (color...
Died. Admiral Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble, 75, head of the British Naval Delegation to Washington (1942-44), commander in chief of the Western Approaches in the fight against Nazi U-boats (1941-42), commander in chief of the China Station (1938-40); of coronary thrombosis; in London. Regarded as a top naval strategist, destroyer-trained Sir Percy organized the British defenses that helped keep World War II's North Atlantic convoy routes open...
...poacher or a gravedigger by trade. Says Moderator John Daly admiringly: "Dottie follows a logical, syllogistic construction: she is more of a technician and a scientist in her approach." The only other quizzer to come close to equaling her eager beaverability is Florence Rinard of Twenty Questions. Cinemactress June Lockhart of Who Said That? has been described as a "walking encyclopedia," but she lacks the determined Kilgallen pounce...
...Playwright Alexander's difficult job to make nothing much happen, but a good deal seem to. A neighborly and beslacked predatory platinum blonde wanders in and out; so does the heroine's repressed-and clearly replaceable-fiancé: hero and heroine (John Newland and June Lockhart) take turns batting and fielding. And the repressed fiancé (delightfully played by Tom Poston) is twice gorgeously tight...
These two drunk scenes are one reason-June Lockhart is another-why The Grand Prize ranks among the season's pleasanter also-rans. Playwright Alexander has a real gift for a funny line, though no gift whatever for hewing to it. Writing amiable nonsense, he can doubtless be pardoned for never sufficiently thickening his plot; his sin is how sadly he waters his prattle. He permits far too much second-rate-and secondhand-jesting; he should trade in his rubber stamp for a pruning knife. But The Grand Prize merits the classic praise the curate gave his egg: parts...