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Insulted Ego. A vigorous opposition to the new trend comes from Veteran TV Producer Fred Coe, who guided the Television Playhouse through its earliest, most realistic days. Coe, who last month produced Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth on NBC, thinks TV is becoming the sick man of the arts: "I don't know why the American people should give Ed Sullivan 65% of the audience against Helen Hayes, Mary Martin and The Skin of Our Teeth. I'm puzzled...
...electioneering was successful. Appearing for the first time after a summer of well-publicized tiffing. Funsters Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were so busy patching up their feud that they mostly forgot to be funny. For the second week in a row Thornton Wilder proved himself TV's most adaptable playwright...
...presentation of the week, NBC's two-hour-long production of the ANTA revival of The Skin of Our Teeth, was in some measure a sales pitch for mankind in general. Concocted for the theater when the iconoscope was still a gadget little known outside the laboratory, Playwright Thornton Wilder's crazy, mixed-up parable of the human race is a tale told largely in TV's own terms. Its soap-opera domestic situation, its firm reliance on interpolated newsreels, its constant comic interruptions and its narrow escapes from the maudlin and the mawkish by a hasty...
After starring as a wanton in NBC's two-hour TV version of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, peripatetic Musi-comedienne Mary Martin flew to Jamaica to rehearse with Noel Coward for CBS's Ford Star Jubilee to be telecast next month, meanwhile telling one and all of her projected winter trip with husband Richard Halliday to the remote state of Goias, in Brazil. The spot she is dreaming about is 14° south of the equator, 600 miles from the coast, 2,500 ft. up a mountain on a lush plateau full...
Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., NBC). Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, with Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, George Abbott, Florence Reed...