CINEMA

Good children's films are even rarer than good adult films, but suddenly there are two: Misty, a properly sentimental tale about two Virginia youngsters who long to own a wild pony; and The Parent Trap, a movie whose plot should make it thoroughly emetic--it concerns cute identical twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying--but which is consistently delightful, thanks to its button-nosed star, Hayley Mills. Also recommended:

Secrets of Women. In Ingmar Bergman's first comedy, as in the later films, A Lesson in Love and Smiles of a Summer Night, the Scandinavian warlock gaily examines matrimony and finds it ridiculous.

The Guns of Navarone. Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn shoot it up rousingly in this World War II thriller, and no one will mind that after the fourth or fifth dustup it is obvious that the jaws of death have rubber teeth.

Eve Wants to Sleep (in Polish). The Poles, of all people, rediscover a truth from U.S. silent-film days: that while the police may not be funny, policemen are --and the result is a wacky cops-and-robbers knockabout.

TELEVISION

Thurs., July 27

The Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The country's best cowboys compete--in everything from roping to bronco-busting--for $70,000 in prize money at the California Rodeo.

At the Source (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther is interviewed in his office at Solidarity House in Detroit.

Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Yankee Clipper, with William (later Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd.

Sat., July 29 Baseball Game of the Week (CBS,

starts at 2:30 p.m.). In New York's Yankee Stadium, a team of oldtime Yankees, including such gone greats as Bill Dickey, Allie Reynolds, Charlie Keller, and Lefty Gomez, takes on a mixed bag of former Brooklyn Dodger and New York Giant stars: Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Owen, Ralph Branca, Bill Terry, Frankie Frisch, Bobby Thompson, et al.

ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC, 4:30-7 p.m.). The Japanese all-star baseball game from Nagoya, Japan.

P.G.A. National Golf Championship (CBS, 5:30-6:30 pm.). Played this year at Chicago's Olympia Fields Country Club.

Sun., July 30

Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "The Protest"--an examination of American culture, with Radio Monologuist Jean Shepard.

P.G.A. National Golf Championship (CBS, 4:30-6 p.m.). Final day.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A documentary on missile launching and tracking. Repeat.

Tues., Aug. 1

Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A cattle roundup on the biggest ranch in North America, the 1,000,000-acre Gang Ranch near Clinton, B.C.

THEATER

Straw Hat

Skowhegan, Me., Lakewood Theater: the Lunts' tour de force O Mistress Mine, re-enacted by Jane Wyatt and Tom Helmore.

Westport, Conn., Westport Country Playhouse: Molly Picon and Martyn Green in A Majority of One.

Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Macbeth, and Troilus and Cressida.

Dennis, Mass., Cape Playhouse: Future Perfect, a new comedy by Whitfield Connor, with Martha Scott and Lee Bow man.

Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: sprightly Celeste Holm in Invitation to a March.

Warwick, R.I., Musical Theater: John (Carousel) Raitt stars in Oklahoma!

New Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: the Association of Producing Artists, a first-rate traveling repertory group, offers two weeks of Sheridan's School for Scandal, George M. Cohan's melodramatic The Tavern, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The company includes George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris and Ellis Rabb.

Philadelphia, Playhouse in the Park: Five Finger Exercise, starring Dennis King and Signe Hasso.

East Hampton, N.Y., John Drew Theater: the second summer offering of Manhattan's Phoenix Theater company is Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke.

Abingdon, Va., Barter Theater: Drama Critic Ward Morehouse impersonates the late Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott in the Kaufman-Hart classic, The Man Who Came to Dinner.

Chicago, 111., Drury Lane Theater: Veteran Charles Coburn stars in You Can't Take It with You.

Cleveland, Ohio, Musicarnival: Lerner & Loewe's Paint Your Wagon, an early splash by Broadway's recently sundered musical team.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Household Ghosts, by James Kenna-way. An adulterous and neurotic triangle--young wife, indifferent husband, destructive and cynical lover--delineated with a superbly controlled mixture of humor and sadness.

Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. "Who clipped the lion's wings?" asked T. S. Eliot. In this satirical novel about the decline of the British Empire in Africa, a former colonial official answers the question with a masterful spoof.

The Making of the President 1960, by Theodore H. White. An excellent journalistic re-creation of one of the most fascinating campaigns in history.

The Death of Tragedy, by George Steiner. A distinguished critic examines the question of why real tragedy seems impossible today, and how that condition came about.

The Spanish Civil War, by Hugh Thomas. The best, least partisan history of the desperate yet highly instructive conflict.

The Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtrooms by a novelist (The Legacy) and writer of extraordinary insight, who shows how, in various countries, man treats man in the grip of the law.

Nobody Knows My Name, by James Baldwin. The author, who describes himself as an "ambitious, abnormally intelligent, and hungry black cat" rakes his stylish claws over some of his--and the white man's--color problems.

My Father, Lloyd George, by Richard Lloyd George. The son of Britain's World War I Prime Minister has succeeded in a most difficult biographical task: he has written about his father without being a bore, a dupe, or a victim of Oedipal iconoclasm.

Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. As a thinker Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table-rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better.

The House on Colosium Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, soft-focus style.

Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, by George Kennan. A highly informative chronicling of U.S.-Russian relations, 1917-45.

Memed My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal. An appealing Turkish first novel tells the story of an Anatolian village lad who grows up to be a modern Robin Hood.

Best Sellers ( |/ previously included in TIME'S choice of Best Reading)

FICTION 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)-

/ 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2)

3. Mila 18, Uris (3)

4. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (7)

5. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (4)

6. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (6)

7. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (5) / 8. The Last of the Just,

Schwarz-Bart (9) 9. A Shooting Star, Stegner (8) 10. A Journey to Matecumbe, Taylor (10)

NONFICTION / 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2) / 3. Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (5) / 4. The New English Bible (3) / 5. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4) 6. The Making of the President 1960, White (9) 7. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (6) 8. Firsthand Report, Adams 9. Inside Europe Today, Gunther 10. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Hauser (7)

-All times E.D.T. -Position on last week's list.

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