Cinema: May 24, 1963

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Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This one is about a quarter horse who nearly goes to the glue factory but ends up winning prizes. Repeat.

The Emmy Awards (NBC, 10-11:30 p.m.). The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presents its annual awards in ceremonies televised from Hollywood, New York and Washington.

The Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Metropolitan Opera Soprano Elaine Malbin, Tenor Sandor Kenya, Baritone William Warfield.

Monday, May/27

Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Enemy Below, with Robert Mitchum on the surface and Curt Jurgens skippering a Nazi submarine at depth.

David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Brinkley views with alarm the deterioration of the national shrines at Gettysburg, Pa.

Tuesday, May 28

The Jack Benny Program (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Jack reminisces about his gilded youth in Waukegan. Repeat.

THEATER

On Broadway

She Loves Me is head over heels in love with love. The musical's springtime sweethearts are Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey, son of Raymond. Carol Haney's dance spoofs and the Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock score keep this romantic fairy tale spinning gaily.

Rattle of a Simple Man, by Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. Stalemated between farce and pathos, the play does not go anywhere either; but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin.

Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, puts its characters on a kind of verbal couch for 4½ hours, but the amateur psychoanalyzing currently seems both comic and a trifle freudulent. Star Geraldine Page rings as true as 14 carats.

Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein. There is an improvisational air to this play that lends freshness to a stalely familiar genre, the Jewish family comedy. As a youngster with a yen to act, Alan Arkin is rib-splittingly funny.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle award as the best play of the year, Virginia Woolf detonates a shattering three-act marital explosion that, for savage wit and skill, is unparalleled in the recent annals of the U.S. stage. As the embattled couple, Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen enact their roles with magnificent ferocity.

Beyond the Fringe. Recipient of a rarely accorded Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle, Beyond the Fringe is the finest revue in years. Four antic and articulate young Englishmen rip the comic stuffing out of nuclear defense, Shakespearean theatrics, and glibly patronizing men of God.

Off Broadway

To the Water Tower. The Second City troupe is unequaled among U.S. revue groups for its acting skill, imaginative verve, and satiric intrepidity.

Six Characters in Search of an Author is quite possibly the best-thought-out and most excitingly executed revival of the Pirandello classic ever seen in the U.S.

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