CINEMA

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 Franc,oise 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

Directions '63 (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Second part of a discussion about Cuban refugees and their resettlement in the U.S. The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor before Dec. 7, 1941. Repeat. The Theater of Tomorrow (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A special on the Repertory Company of Lincoln Center, narrated by Elia Kazan, featuring a brief excerpt from Arthur Miller's new play After the Fall, performed by Jason Robards Jr. The Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, Singer Florence Henderson, Cellist Michael Flaksman.

Tuesday, May 21

The Kremlin (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A story of the center of the Russian government and its role in history, some of which was filmed there by NBC. Chet Huntley Report (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A visit to Syracuse University.

THEATER

On Broadway She Loves Me is head over heels in love with love. The musical's 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. 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. The play is stalemated between farce and pathos, but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin. Mother Courage, by Bertolt Brecht. Anne Bancroft pulls her canteen wagon across the face of Europe during the Thirty Years' War and tragically loses her three children. Brecht's reflections on peace and war are deeply ironic, but Anne Bancroft lacks the depth for her part. Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, puts its characters on a kind of verbal couch for 4 1/2 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. As the embattled couple, Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen enact their roles with magnificent ferocity.

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. It lives up to its own reputation in this tart hit-and-run raid on Cuba, bomb shelter salesmen,

* All times E.D.T.

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