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Page 22 TV Weekly Mr. Willoby goes to Stratford markable man with a special insight into things Shakespearean. At times he appears to think he is Shakespeare. How he realizes his ambition to appear on Stratford stage provides the central theme of the play. Mr.

Willoby makes his annual pilgrimage to the Stratford Festival when, on Monday, June 15, at 9 p.m. EDT, CBC-TV's Playdate presents Pilgrim, Why Do You Come? In this new play by Leslie McFarlane, Mr. Willoby is an old Shakespearean actor who, at the end of a long career, wants to act just once on the stage of the Stratford Festival Theatre. Basil Coleman's production includes third act sequences filmed on the Stratf stage. Playdate's tribute to the 400th Shakespeare anniversary, Pilgrim, Why Do You Come? will be telecast on the opening night of the 1964 Stratford Festival.

Barry Jones, the distinguished English veteran actor, plays Mr. Willoby. Billed as special guest star, he shares the Playdate spotlight with Corinne Conley and John Horton, who are starred as two young people with widely differing views on Shakespeare. Lorna (Miss Conley) is a devotee, returning each year to celebrate the bard. George (played by Horton) is a skeptic paying his first visit to the festival, "to see what this Shakespeare stuff is all He isn't much impressed.

In the supporting cast, Murray Davis plays Eliot Reyburn, a sophisticate with an eye for a pretty girl, Lorna. Reyburn, whose romance with the girl has been hampered by his marital status, arrives in Stratford with news of his impending divorce. Mr. Willoby takes a hand by encouraging Lorna to accept a dinner invitation from George, and the romantic battle is on. The central figure in the play is JVlr.

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Misterogers' neighborhood of make believe is on records. Small World Enterprises of Toronto has released a long-playing recording by the originator of the popular CBC-TV children's show, and featuring songs by Misterogers (Fred Rogers) and baritone John Reardon. The title is King Friday XIII Celebrates, and the songs written by Fred Rogers and his wife, Josie Carey, will be familiar to the show's regular viewers. All the Misterogers characters are represented Daniel Striped Tiger, Henietta Pussycat, Cornflake S. Pecially, and, of course, King Friday XIII himself.

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