Wednesday, July 22

THE TONIGHT SHOW (NBC, 11:15 p.m.1 a.m.).* Pat Boone takes over this week as host during Johnny Carson's vacation. Color.

Friday, July 24

ON PARADE (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Singer Tony Bennett displays his talents in an elaborately staged solo concert.

THE JACK PAAR SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Paar repeats his three-day visit to Dr. Albert Schweitzer's hospital at Lambarene, Gabon. Color.

Saturday, July 25

SIXTH U.S.-RUSSIAN TRACK MEET (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Soviets are given the best chance ever to defeat the U.S. male team while maintaining their consistent supremacy over the girls. The competition is held at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Sunday, July 26

SIXTH U.S.-RUSSIAN TRACK MEET (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Second day's events, including film clips of the American and Soviet athletes living and training together at the University of Southern California. Coverage continues at 10-11 p.m.

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).

Ed's guest is Broadway Star Steve Lawrence.

Tuesday, July 28

TEXACO STAR PARADE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).

The third of Composer-turned-Producer Meredith Willson's musical specials presents a slate of young talent. Guests include Singers Joe and Eddie, Jack Jones, and Vikki Carr.

THEATER

On Broadway

Visitors in New York for the fair or en route abroad can refresh their spirits, stimulate their minds, or fill up pre-departure hours with some fine summer holdovers:

THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES, but the theme is thorns in this perceptive new play by Frank D. Gilroy about the barbed bloodletting that drains people who live within the closeness of the family without being close. The playwright could not have dreamed of a better cast than Irene Dailey, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen.

HAMLET is played by Richard Burton as Hamlet wanted to be--the self-assured ruler of his fortunes, and never the tormented prey of a tragic destiny. It is a portrayal alight with intelligence, but rarely aflame with feeling.

FUNNY GIRL, based on the life of Fanny Brice, is an entertaining excuse--if any is needed--to see an exciting new Broadway star who is far more than an entertainer, Barbra Streisand.

HIGH SPIRITS. Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes are probably creatures of their own imaginations, since not even Author Noel Coward could quite conceive such zany stage sprites.

DYLAN is another acting triumph for Alec Guinness, as he embodies the poetic fire, the playful wit, the alcoholic antics and the fierce urge to self-destruction that constituted the life and legend of Dylan Thomas.

ANY WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis plays a kept doll with an unkempt sense of humor that leads to precious little love-making but does produce an unreasonable amount of fun-making.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK turns a six-flight walk-up into a cascade of laughs about young love in Manhattan.

Off Broadway

THE KNACK is a fantastically droll British bedroom farce played out in an all but bare room. If one can imagine three perplexed and at times almost pathetic Marx Brothers chasing a plump country girl, with the cry of "Rape!" punctuating the air like "Tallyho!", one gets a glimmer of Playwright Ann Jellicoe's comic instincts.

DUTCHMAN. A sex-teasing white girl lures and then tongue-lashes a sedate Negro in a subway car until he turns on her with a venomous tirade of racial hate. Playwright LeRoi Jones aims to terrify, and between stations he succeeds.

THE TROJAN WOMEN. This tragic masterpiece by Euripides is 2,400 years old, but in its current superb production, it is the most profoundly alive drama to be found in New York.

RECORDS

Folk Music & Blues

A FOLKSINGER'S CHOICE (Elektra). Known especially for his performances of Yiddish and Hebrew songs, Theodore Bikel turns now to traditional Scotch, Irish and contemporary American music. Bikel can change dialects at the sound of a chord, and is at home wherever there is a smile (Away with Rum) or a tear (Come Away Me Undo).

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SING (Elektra) and perhaps more is sung by Songwriter Phil Ochs, who moves in the same circles as Bob Dylan and, like him, is a disciple of Woody Guthrie. Only 23, Ochs has put to music most of yesterday's headlines: Too Many Martyrs (about Medgar Evers), Talking Cuban Crisis and even the Automation Song. The songs most likely to last are poetic if heavy protests like Knock on the Door, an indictment of Soviet terror, and Lou Marsh, a ballad about a social worker murdered in Spanish Harlem.

THE RURAL BLUES (RBF; 2 LPs). These are the original blues, collected and classified by their indefatigable historian, Samuel Charters, and sung by some of the Southern Negroes who in the last 50 years developed the new form from the work songs of slave days. The recording includes singers like Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, Peg Leg Howell, Ham Gravy, and Kokomo Arnold (with his wild falsetto). Not all the songs are as rural as Skip Jones's Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues.

GOOD TIME! (Vanguard). The three young Rooftop Singers are working well-explored territory (Rock Island Line, Old Joe Clark, It Don't Mean a Thing), but they make the songs worth hearing again because of their style and a gleeful spontaneity reminiscent of the early Weavers.

OUT CAME THE BLUES (Decca). Some of the rural bluesmen made it to Chicago, and this swinging thesaurus of the '30s was mostly recorded there. It celebrates the faithlessness of women (Big Joe Turner's Little Bittie Gal's Blues and Johnnie Temple's Louise Louise Blues) and, on the other hand, the rascality of men, as in My Man Jumped Salty on Me, sung by Rosetta Crawford. According to Georgia White, "The blues ain't nothin' but a good woman feelin' bad."

FOLK BANJO STYLES (Elektra). The banjo, the only instrument native to the U.S., is becoming as much a part of the summer landscape as the mosquito. Here is a recital (Flop-Eared Mule, Nine Hundred Miles, Goodbye Old Booze) in various styles by four experts. On the sleeve, there is a written exposition for beginning listeners of plain and fancy picking: frailing, up-picking, two-finger, three-finger, and the virtuoso Scruggs style.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING I SAID!

(Mercury). The Smothers Brothers sing straight and well on occasion, but their mission in life is their antic spoofing of the folk scene, which appeals especially to teenagers. Their latest is not as funny as Think Ethnic!, where they expounded their own crazy version of John Henry and sang: "Black is the color of my love's true hair."

CINEMA

THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Under John Huston's shrewd direction, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton unpack their troubles at a seedy Mexican hotel in a drama that stirs the senses, persuades the mind, and sometimes touches the heart.

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. A young girl stumbles from the path of virtue into a nightmare of brutal Sicilian social codes in Director Pietro Germi's savage tragicomedy, which makes his wildly wicked Divorce--Italian Style seem an exercise in restraint.

A SHOT IN THE DARK. As Inspector Clouseau of the Surete, Peter Sellers pratfalls his way through a multiple murder case and proves beyond reasonable doubt that he is one of the funniest men alive.

ZULU. A brisk, bloody, eye-filling adventure inspired by the heroism of 130 British soldiers who fought off 4,000 Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift, Natal, in 1879.

MAFIOSO. Sicily again, with Alberto Sordi caught in the insidious toils of the Mafia while Director Alberto Lattuada serves up some small but gloriously garlicky slices of provincial life.

THAT MAN FROM RIO. French Director Philippe de Broca's wacky parody of Hollywood adventure movies propels Jean-Paul Belmondo through a series of wonderfully absurd dangers, smack into the arms of a drugged damsel in distress.

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. In this stylish British comedy, a lowly clerk, Alan Bates, rises in the Establishment by coolly perfecting a program of lies, theft, courtship and homicide.

THE ORGANIZER. In this vivid, timelessly beautiful account of a 19th century textile strike in Turin, Marcello Mastroianni fascinatingly portrays the early labor leader as a kind of holy hoodlum.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE FAR FIELD, by Theodore Roethke.

These poems, written in the last seven years before Roethke died of a heart attack, are beautiful in themselves and provide for him an astonishingly true memorial. All the themes of which he was a master reappear--the greenhouse, the root, the plant and a troubled reaching toward God.

TO AN EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. On a kind of comic Volkswagen odyssey through Brooklyn, four Greenwich Village intellectuals search for the funeral of a compatriot and discover themselves: pathetic, rather pretentious fellows who at heart prefer the cult of Humphrey Bogart to the cult of the Partisan Review.

TWO NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. An Oxford classics don, Novelist Brophy is best known for her savage book reviews in English periodicals. In these two new lightly plotted and wickedly brilliant novellas about a New Year's Eve amorous adventure, and the about-face of a Lesbian schoolmistress, she shows the elegant artifices and tricks of style of a latter-day Ronald Firbank.

THE SCARPERER, by Brendan Behan. To "scarper" in Gaelic 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).

A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. This memoir of Paris, 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 writers are there: James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, the Fitzgeralds, characterized memorably, if sometimes nastily.

THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carre.

A reissue of the author's first two books in one volume. One is a slightly fey mystery set in C. Day Lewis' social set at Oxford; the other is a dress rehearsal for The Spy Who Came In from the Cold--with all the props, some of the characters and bleak tone. Both plots are exciting.

JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. Into 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. With elegance and flourish, Vidal's novel records every last adventure, including Julian's attempt to abolish Christianity, but it does not quite capture its 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. Armageddon, Uris (3)

4. Julian, Vidal (4)

5. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (5)

6. The Spire, Golding (6)

7. The Group, McCarthy (7)

8. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (8)

9. The 480, Burdick (9)

10. The Martyred, Kim

NON FICTION

1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1)

2. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (2)

3. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (9)

4. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (3)

5. Harlow, Schulman (6)

6. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur

7. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (4)

8. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (7)

9. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (10)

10. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver

*All times E.D.T.

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