Television: May 10, 1968

Wednesday, May 8

THE BEST ON RECORD (NBC. 9-10 p.m.).* The Grammy Awards show. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' presentation of this year's Grammys for outstanding performances on records. Those participating in the show include Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell, the Fifth Dimension, the Cannonball Adderly Quintet, Chet Atkins, Lou Rawls, Liza Minelli, Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin.

Friday, May 10

AMERICAN PROFILE: SOMEHOW IT WORKS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In a humorous review of political campaigns past and present, Correspondent Edwin Newman explores the roots of campaign techniques from baby kissing to barbecues.

Saturday, May 11

THE SINGERS: TWO PROFILES (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A documentary about what it takes to become a successful pop singer, featuring Vocalists Aretha Franklin and Gloria Loring.

Sunday, May 12

ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). The Leopard (1963). Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale star in this motion-picture adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's novel about social turmoil in Italy at the time of Garibaldi.

Tuesday, May 14

BIG CATS, LITTLE CATS (NBC, 8-9 p.m.).

All about cats—their personality, behavior, charm; and their symbolic role in art, superstition, religion and legend. Lome Greene narrates.

Check local listings for dates and times of these NET programs:

NET FESTIVAL. "Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up." Sometime novelist (The Naked and the Dead), would-be journalist ("Armies of the Night") and film director (Wild 90), Norman Mailer is alternately described as the greatest living U.S. writer and as a malcontented egomaniac. NET's cameras attempt a portrait of this man of many different faces and moods with film sequences of him at home, acting and directing, and addressing the October peace rally in Washington.

NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays).

Trumpets of the Lord. Originally produced off Broadway in 1963, this musical adaptation of God's Trombones, by the late poet James Weldon Johnson, features James Earle Jones, Lex Monson, Jane White and Theresa Merritt.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE EDUCATION OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. Poverty is romantic only from a distance; when seen through the eyes of Leo Rosten's ingratiating immigrant in this breezy musical, it is also amusing.

Tom Bosley is the Yiddishe Yankee.

JOE EGG. Into his unlikely comedy, Peter Nichols throws snatches of tap-dance routines, jazz, and vaudeville turns to leaven the tale of a young British couple (Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly) who camouflage the fragility of their marriage by concentrating their attentions and emotions on their hopelessly spastic daughter.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, takes a chip off the old Bard to construct a neo-Elizabethan existentialist drama. Brian Murray and John Wood are adept as Tom Stoppard's netherheroes of flashing wit but blinking comprehension.

THE APA repertory strikes a range of notes—from the wholesome humor of The Show-Off and the slightly sour satire of Pantagleize through the elegiac tones of The Cherry Orchard and the mournful wail of Exit the King.