Cinema, Television, Theater: May 17, 1963

Two Daughters. The camera of India's Satyajit Ray speaks a universal language in this gentle and witty two-part film. The Postmaster tells of the touching relationship between a backwoods postmaster and a ten-year-old girl who is his servant; The Conclusion is a comedy about a reluctant bride, ardent groom and spoiled mother. With minor changes of script, Two Daughters could have been made in rural Louisiana. The Third Lover. Equally understandable is Claude Chabrol's latest film, a chilling story about a self-centered young man whose envy drives him to ruin the happiness of a couple who befriend him. Chabrol, who launched the French New Wave, proves that with honest camera work and well-motivated plot films may be excitingly nouvelle without being murkily vague. Fiasco in Milan. This one takes up where Big Deal on Madonna Street leaves off, with Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed. Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes. Landru. Another Chabrol picture, this one with a screenplay by Françoise Sagan, whose cynical scenario is based on the French Bluebeard who murdered ten women during World War I in France. Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan are among Landru's victims. Love Is a Ball. The ball is filled with hot air, but Hope Lange and Glenn Ford keep it bouncing all along the Riviera. I Could Go On Singing. Members of the Judy Garland Underground will love this more-than-slightly-autobiographical story about a famous singer who goes to London to sing, gets involved in a child-custody wrangle, ends up on the lonely side of the rainbow. To Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck's Oscar-winning performance as Atticus Finch is good, but the kids, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and John Megna, almost steal the show in this pleasant screen version of the Pulitzer-prizewinning novel.

Wednesday, May 15 CBS Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.) * The program examines the National Wheat Referendum, May 21, in which U.S. wheat farmers will vote on government price supports.

Friday, May 17

The Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Anne Bancroft, Sam Levenson, Gordon and Sheila MacRae.

Saturday, May 18

Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Trout-fishing competition at a re mote Argentine lake. The Preakness (CBS, 5:30-6 p.m.). From Baltimore, the second coronet in racing's Triple Crown for 1963. Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn.

Sunday, May 19