Show Business: Crme de la Kremlin

Seldom has a TV show been so discussed and applauded as NBC's tour of the Kremlin, presented last week and due for repeat broadcast June 4. In an hour-long panoply of color, the forbidding mystery of the place was vaporized.

The network's cameras had a look at almost everything in the 65-acre Kremlin compound, from the old Cathedral of the Archangel to the new glass-fagaded Soviet Palace of Congresses. There were glances at the Spartan rooms of Lenin, the spare embellishments of Stalin's new grave, and the fantastic Great Hall of St. George, with its huge chandeliers of what look like bunches...

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