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PLAZA SUITE proves once again that Neil Simon is a master mirthologist, as in two of three one-act plays he adroitly sketches a satire and broadly paints a farce. In the first play, Visitor from Mamaroneck, he achieves a new tone of rue as he depicts the poignant confrontation between a much-married duo. The professionalism of Director Mike Nichols and Actors George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton matches that of the playwright...
...most recent issue, The New Journal introduced a genre which it calls a magazine "screenplay." Thirty-eight little photographs are spread over four Journal pages, with the text of a one-act farce interspersed, so that when we read: "Three toes! Count 'em! Three toes the guy's got missing!", we see a man on his knees holding up three fingers and peering at a foot that juts into the photograph. Or when the businessman who happens to have his foot stuck in the sidewalk says to himself, in Oral Roberts style, "Take up thy foot and WALK...
...promised "to use television as it has never been used before," the 21-hour program seemed rather familiar. Correspondents skipped breathlessly across the mayoralty-campaign battlegrounds of Gary, Cleveland and Boston, concentrating on the racist atmosphere. The commercial networks had been there before, and about as thoroughly. A raw one-act satire about racial attitudes in the south-Day of Absence, by Negro Dramatist Douglas Turner Ward-was allowed to run from here to eternity: 60 minutes...
...know that The Tiger Makes Out is adapted from a one-act play by Schisgal called The Tiger, it's easy to understand why the film seems a succession of high points surrounded by a lot of filler. Those high points are good, though. They are touching in their way, but salty, not schmaltzy...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). "This Is the Rill Speaking," an impressionistic one-act play for six voices, about small-town life in the Ozarks...