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...MEG (242 pp.)-Theodora Keogh-Creative...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Little Women, with Peggy Ann Garner, Meg Mundy, June Lockhart...
...very center of the picture is Detective Jim McLeod (excellently played by Ralph Bellamy). Because he had a sadistic father, he has become relentlessly uncharitable as well as rigidly just toward all evildoers. His only real tenderness is for his wife (Meg Mundy); and suddenly, in the midst of hounding an abortionist, he discovers that his wife went to the man before she was married. The psychological tangle that results is too much for both McLeod and Playwright Kingsley; the solution, like the whole setup, is far more lurid than convincing...
This time the four hoopskirted March girls are played by blonde June Allyson (Jo) in a red wig, brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Amy) in a blonde wig, Janet Leigh (Meg), and Margaret O'Brien (Beth). Though the faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching...
Even the girls, who used to be the mainstay of the humanities, are going in more for home economics and the newer vocational majors (recreation, social work). Meg Rothermel, the 1948 Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, is planning to be a social worker. Dean of Women Louise Troxell finds girls much franker and surer about what they go to college for these days: "To get a job, and a husband, and very possibly both...