Television continued to make news last week:
¶ From Madison Square Garden, the circus was presented in five three-hour telecasts. The Greatest Show on Earth turned out to be one of TV's greatest shows, with a smash Hooperating (67.2). There were a few missing ingredients (the color and smells), but the long-distance lens caught such unusual details as a close-up of Unus' one-fingered stand, the dazed expression on a midget bareback rider's face, an elephant's wink.
¶ U.S. television got a new playwright when Gertrude Lawrence starred in a lavish Theatre Guild treatment of Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine. The Guild and NBC spared...
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