Thursday, July 2
ABC NEWS REPORTS (ABC, 10:30 11 p.m.)* A study of Republican Party platforms of the past and their influence on Republican Presidents.
Friday, July 3
U.S. SUMMER OLYMPIC TRIALS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). First of twelve programs on the trials, beginning with some of the Men's Track and Field events from Downing Stadium, Randall's Island, N.Y.
Saturday, July 4
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Vic Seixas is commentator for the All England Tennis championships from Wimbledon, England; also the 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance from Le Mans, France.
Sunday, July 5
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Dwight Macdonald, Maxwell Geismar, and John Houseman discuss the role of the artist during the '30s and show films of some of the '30s' greats: Carole Lombard, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, George Gershwin, etc. Repeat.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Wisconsin Congressman Melvin R. Laird, 1964 chairman of the Republican Platform Committee.
Monday, July 6
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM (NBC, 4:30-5 p.m.). First of five daily programs covering preconvention developments in San Francisco this week.
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Pride of St. Louis, the life story of Pitcher Dizzy Dean. Color.
Tuesday, July 7
THE CHOSEN CHILD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Award-winning documentary on the joys and difficulties involved in child adoption. Repeat.
THEATER
Straw Hat The big news on the tent and barn circuit this year is the release for summer theaters of that alltime box-office bombshell, My Fair Lady, and more than 80 summer theaters are offering Lady to the straw-hat and sunback set.
This week the Lady will 'arness 'er haitches in Highland Park, 111. (with Ray Milland, who will go on to North Tonawanda, N.Y., Framingham, Mass., Wallingford, Conn., Warwick, R.I.); Gaithersburg, Md. (with Zachary Scott and Joan -- daughter of Aaron -- Copland, who will also take it to Devon, Pa., West Springfield, Mass., Owings Mills, Md., and Westbury, L.I.); Kansas City (with Michael Allinson, who will play it in Atlanta as well); Corning, N.Y. (with Allyn Ann McLerie and George Gaynes, on a tour that will hit Fayetteville, N.Y., Latham, N.Y., East Rochester, Southfield, Mich., Toronto, Nyack, N.Y., and East Hampton, L.I.); Santa Monica (with Edward Mulhare, Reginald Denny and Barbara Williams); Yonkers, N.Y. (with Margot Moser and Michael Evans, for a whole month); other companies will mount productions in Hyannis, Mass., Laconia, N.H., Cedar Grove, N.J., Augusta, Mich., and Bellport, L.I.
Next week Ladies will pop up in Dallas (with Gayla Byrne and Michael Rennie); Somers Point, N.J., Fitchburg, Mass., and Cohasset, Mass. And the following week there will be productions in Mount Gretna, Pa., Skowhegan, Me., Sullivan, 111., New London, Conn., and Hampton, N.H.
Music theaters and summer theaters across the country will play various versions of Lady. Some notable ones: Jeffrey Lynn will play Higgins in Ephrata, Pa., at the end of July, then go to Charlotte, N.C., with Mindy Carson (on leave for a week from Broadway's Mary, Mary). In August, Jane Powell, Michael Evans and Reginald Denny will play it in a brand-new theater in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles); Margot Moser will appear in it with Hugh Marlow and Lyle Talbot in Sacramento. Edward Mulhare will play a late-season engagement of it in San Diego.
CINEMA
THAT MAN FROM RIO. In a hilarious parody of Hollywood adventure movies, French Director Philippe de Broca fires cliches at the screen with Hero Jean-Paul Belmondo panting through many a tight squeeze.
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A ne'er-do-well aristocrat (Denholm Elliott) tutors an ambitious junior clerk (Alan Bates) who yearns for Establishment status in a black comedy about hoary old England.
THE ORGANIZER. Director Mario Monicelli's vividly dramatic portrait of 19th century Italy has warmth, humor, and a fine performance by Marcello Mastroianni as a Socialist Savonarola who leads a strike of textile workers in Turin.
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. Mastroianni again, teamed with Sophia Loren in three frolicsome tales celebrating the game of love as though Italians had invented it out of pure mischief.
THE NIGHT WATCH. Using their jail cell as a base for excavations, five French losers dig up enough walloping suspense and bitter insight to make this prison thriller one of the best of its kind.
BECKET. England's 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton) dares the wrath of his onetime friend King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) in an eye-and ear-filling spectacle.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. In a sly spoof of Ian Fleming's thriller formula, Secret Agent 007 (Sean Connery) is lured to Istanbul for hand-to-hand combat with hired assassins and a high-proof blonde.
THE SERVANT. Dirk Bogarde deftly combines good manners with menace in Director Joseph Losey's class-conscious melodrama about an evil London valet who attends mainly to his master's vice.
THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT introduces Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth as a pair of teen-age metrognomes who liven up New York in pursuit of Concert Pianist Peter Sellers, their favorite celebrity.
BOOKS
Best Reading
TWO NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. These short novels contain glittering prose, a variety of verbal tricks, and almost too many tours de force to digest at one reading. Already a well-known critic, Author Brophy has now hit a fictional stride that should make her a formidable literary figure.
TO AN EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. A funny, unpretentious novel about a small clutch of men who make their living in Greenwich Village by being "intellectual." Author Markfield has clearly read his Joyce very closely, but his style is lighter and his wit strictly 1964.
THE SCARPERER, by Brendan Behan. To "scarper" in Irish is to escape, and Behan runs off with some Dublin weirdos glorifying their past and dreaming their future. This short novel is vintage Behan (1953), when the mercurial writer wrote his most ebullient prose.
THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carre. A reissue of the author's first two books in one volume. Admirers of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold will be especially drawn to A Murder for Quality, which has its own suspenseful plot, but at the same time reads like a first draft for Spy--characters, Cold and all.
A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. This memoir of Paris in the '20s, which the author suggested should be read as fiction, has a ghostly quality: it reads as if the author had written in the '20s what in fact he wrote in the '50s. All the famous are there: James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, the Fitzgeralds, characterized memorably, if sometimes nastily, in vintage Hemingway style.
RAINER MARIA RILKE, THE YEARS IN SWITZERLAND, by J. R. von Salis. This biography covers Rilke's last seven years, when he wrote his greatest poetry--including most of his masterpiece, The Duino Elegies. Von Salis, who knew Rilke, conveys well Rilke's temperament, but he lacks perspective on his genius.
JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. In his fleeting reign as Emperor of Rome (A.D. 361-363), Julian crammed enough wars and grandiose plans to make Alexander the Great seem inert and unimaginative. Gore Vidal's novel records, with elegance and flourish, every last adventure, including the notorious attempt to abolish Christianity, but he does not quite capture his elusive subject.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week)
2. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (2)
3. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (3)
4. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (5)
5. The Group, McCarthy (6)
6. Armageddon, Uris
7. The Spire, Golding (4)
8. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (9)
9. Julian, Vidal (10)
10. The Martyred, Kim (8)
NONFICTION 1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1)
2. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (2)
3. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (3)
4. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (4)
5. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy,Salinger and Vanocur
6. The Naked Society, Packard (6)
7. In His Own Write, Lennon (7)
8. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (9)
9. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (5)
10. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (8)
*All times E.D.T.
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