Radio: The Summer Shows

Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) is a potentially first-rate summer series that, so far, has had trouble getting off the ground. The first program was a painstaking, rather flat dramatization of an episode from Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. Others have included The Man Who Liked Dickens, starring Claude Rains, a prettied-up version of Evelyn Waugh's story of a lost explorer held captive by an illiterate half-breed, and Mrs. Union Station, a farce starring June Havoc. The show may have better luck this week with Charles Ruggles in an adaptation of Richard Harding Davis'...

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