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...enthusiasts are sure that it will eventually (maybe sooner) make radio as obsolete as the horse-and empty all the nation's movie houses. Children will go to school in their own living rooms, presidential candidates will win elections from a television studio. Housewives will see on the screen the dresses and groceries they want, and shop by phone...
Boxing, wrestling, tennis and other sports that are fought out in a small area or follow a prescribed course are apt to be as good on the screen as on the spot. Baseball, football, hockey, horse racing and basketball are tougher problems. Too frequently, watchers are dragged through eye-straining "pans" as the camera races to catch up with the action. Baseball telecasts, says the show business magazine Variety, "are right back where radio was when a batter would rattle a hit off the fence for two bases and Ted Husing would call it a 'Texas Leaguer...
...Toscanini telecasts, with their remarkable, moving close-ups of the maestro and the orchestra, were a television milestone (TIME, March 29). But pictures of jazz bands tootling are as dull on television as they are on a movie screen. Crooners, in particular, are finding the telecamera's unwinking stare an embarrassing experience. (Notable exception: NBC's pretty Singer Kyle MacDonnell, an unknown to radio listeners, but already becoming television's No. 1 pin-up girl...
...left eye. And she is no great actress; most critics agree that ordinary is the word for Maggie's histrionics. Apparently, that's what makes her popular. Said a British producer: "She is really one of them. They feel that whatever happens to her on the screen might easily happen to them...
Stories such as this, which Hawthorne might have written, are seldom written (or read) in our time; they are even more seldom brought to the screen. Producer-Director Carl Dreyer (who made the famed Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928) has filmed Day of Wrath with more than sufficient sobriety, restraint, insight and beauty...