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Fact . . . and Fiction, Too NEW APPROACH FOR 'CAVALCADE' AS IT RIDES INTO THE PRESENT Cavalcade of America, a show from which dignity and prestige drip in kingsize drops, is on the verge of a change of pace. While no one connected with the operation would say the show is switching from the historical to the hysterical, that is about what it amounts to. Cavalcade of Avierica, in short, is about to de¬ part the wonderful sanctity of circa 1776 and move boldly into 1954. In these times, this could be suicidal. Sponsored for 17 years on radio by Out of the past: Cecil Kellaway and Eve¬ lyn Ankers in a Cavalcade historical play. the Du Pont people. Cavalcade came to TV in 1952. It has been devoted, of course, to depicting events of Amer- can history, with a warmth and un¬ derstanding so often lacking in the cold print of textbooks. It has dedi¬ cated itself to Americana, dealing in both fact and semifiction, and has finally reached the point where it seems wise to move on, at least oc¬ casionally, and lock horns with the immediate present. “This, of course,” says Jack DeNove, who is currently producing the bulk of the Cavalcade films, “means we must deal more in fiction than in fact. There is nothing tougher than trying to depict a person who is still alive— or even a person whose heirs are still alive. They can be worse, in fact.” For the first “modern” film. Caval¬ cade has chosen to memorialize the American doctor, genial practitioner variety. Titled, sensibly enough, “The Doctor,” it is scheduled to be telecast on ABC Dec. 7. Dean dagger, an Academy Award winner (for his ad¬ jutant’s role in “Twelve O’Clock High”), makes his TV film bow in the episode. Du Pont, with characteristic caution and a magnificent eye for detail, com¬ mandeered no less a personage than Dr. Dwight Murray, chairman of the board of trustees of the American Medical Association, to examine set and script for complete authenticity. The only thing the good doctor missed was the prop diploma on the office wall—a veterinarian’s. DeNove, despite the built-in head¬ aches of any costume picture, would still rather do them dead than alive. “In this doctor film, for instance,” he sighs, “we had a real simple little bit where the wife hums a snatch of melody from ‘Oklahoma!’ which re¬ minds her husband that he’s forgotten to go out and buy tickets to the show. We had so much trouble trying to get clearance on that one bit of mu¬ sic that we had to scrap the whole 16