The audience rating of Celanese Theater, which this week won a 1952 Peabody Award (see above), has suffered because the show (alternate Weds. 10 p.m., ABC) has played opposite such attractions as the fights between Jake LaMotta & Gene Hairston, Sugar Ray Robinson & Rocky
Graziano. This is particularly unfortunate because in its first year on TV, Celanese has put on more grownup drama than almost any of its rivals. There have been plays by Eugene O'Neill (Ah, Wilderness!, Anna Christie), Maxwell Anderson (Winterset, Saturday's Children), Elmer Rice (Street Scene) and Robert Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest).
As in all TV...
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