Wednesday, May 17

ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8-10:45 p.m.).* Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy and Ina Balin star in From the Terrace (1960), based on John O'Hara's novel.

Thursday, May 18

SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The summer replacement for Stage 67 will be a series of 16 specials on subjects in the news. First off the ticker: "Free Press, Fair Trial," a transatlantic debate conducted via satellite by leading jurists and journalists in Britain and the U.S.

Friday, May 19

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Because They're Young (1960), with Dick Clark riding herd on a bunch of rambunctious high-school students, among them Tuesday Weld, Michael Callen, James Darren and Duane Eddy.

Saturday, May 20

COLONIAL NATIONAL INVITATIONAL (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Australia's Bruce Devlin defends his title against 71 top golfers vying for the $115,000 purse. Live from the Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas. Continued Sunday afternoon, 4:30 p.m.

THE PREAKNESS (CBS, 5-5:45 p.m.). The second of the three classics that make up thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown. Live from Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Grand Prix of Monaco, second of ten auto races toward the 1967 World Driving Championships, plus the third annual Masters Surfing Championship, from Redondo Beach, Calif.

PICCADILLY PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Britain's answer to the Hollywood Palace with British comedians Eric Moorecambe and Ernie Wise and Pop Singer Millicent Martin. The Dave Clark Five guest stars. Premiere.

MISS U.S.A. BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). One girl will be chosen from 15 semifinalists to represent the U.S. at this summer's Miss Universe Beauty Pageant. June Lockhart, Buddy Greco and Bob Barker will emcee the broadcast live from Miami Beach. Among the judges: Benny Goodman and Columnist Hy Gardner.

Sunday, May 21

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Donald Swann, singing half of the British comedy team of Flanders & Swann, presents a folio of carols to "Sing 'Round the Year."

THE 21st CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Geodesic Domemaker Buckminster Fuller, Scientific American Editor Gerard Piel, Biochemist Isaac Asimov, French Journalist Bertrand de Jouvenal and New York Times Science Editor Walter Sullivan assume roles of "The Futurists," discussing what the next century holds for mankind.

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Dinah Shore, Comedian Alan King and Dancer Peter Gennaro. Live from Montreal's Expo 67.

THE SAINT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Simon Templar (Roger Moore), alias "The Saint," finds that he makes a devil of a target in The Death Game, a new series of Saint stories about the 20th century Robin Hood. Premiere.

Monday, May 22

PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Perry plays host to Canadian Singer Monique Leyrac, Pianist Oscar Peterson and Comedian Don Rice.

Tuesday, May 23

THE NATIONAL DRIVERS TEST (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). All new questions on auto safety will be asked on this 1967 sequel to previous tests. The show is timed to alert drivers to the hazards of Memorial Day weekend travel.

NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's tale of murder and eventual reckoning, starring David Collins and Patricia Hayes.

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "University Power: A Conversation with Clark Kerr." The University of California's ex-president talks about higher education--its past, its future, and its problems.

THEATER

On Broadway

YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson taps a rich vein of comedy in four playlets that deal with sex on the stage, sex in middle age, as a parental concern, as a dimming memory. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard give a high polish to each nugget of humor.

THE HOMECOMING. In his play about the prodigal family of a visiting son, Harold Pinter uses words as the sea uses waves, catching his audience up in an inexorable rhythm, washing over them with sound, bringing forth currents and undercurrents of meaning.

BLACK COMEDY. Fireworks are best in the dark, and when the lights blow out in a London flat, a situation fraught with friction sets off sparks of hilarity. An agile and acrobatic cast keeps Peter Shaffer's latest dramatic exercise in amusing motion.

Off Broadway

TO CLOTHE THE NAKED. As a young governess who dies because she cannot keep alive a fantasy, Kathleen Widdoes handles her role with delicate authority. Although lesser Pirandello, Naked still demonstrates the Italian's mastery in dealing with intellectual questions while infusing them with emotional content.

HAMP. Based on a novel by J. L. Hodson, John Wilson's play is a critical examination of a court-martial and its decision in favor of discipline rather than compassion. Robert Salvio is Private Hamp, a World War I infantryman condemned to death after his fear and instincts caused him to flee the bloodshed of the front.

RECORDS

Instrumental

HOROWITZ IN CONCERT (Columbia; 2 LPs). Vladimir Horowitz is an artist of excruciating insight, courage and magnetism. His own nobility leaves no room for banality in song or style--and he therefore gave Columbia a hard time before finally approving the release of these widely varied selections from two 1966 Carnegie Hall recitals. Perfectionist that he may be, Horowitz should rest assured that his most hard-bitten critics will find a multitude of moments to cheer in this moving album.

GARY GRAFFMAN: PROKOFIEV PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 AND 3 (Columbia). Some performers create, some dominate, some execute and others merely recite. Gary Graffman executes, and Prokofiev is his perfect victim. Dazzling fireworks abound in this recording of two percussive concertos, and connoisseurs of pyrotechnics will find nothing missing in Graffman's display; others may hunger for heart in this admittedly impressive recording.

VAN CLIBURN: BEETHOVEN "LES ADIEUX" SONATA; MOZART SONATA IN C (RCA Victor). Cliburn's delivery of Beethoven's sonata of cheerful goodbyes and of Mozart's sonata of precise jollity is deft, fey and spacious, but Beethoven and Mozart have been known to reveal greater depths under more scholarly hands.

JACQUELINE DU PRE: ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO (Angel). Jacqueline Du Pre has enlisted her soul's services to a sylvan-voiced Strad. Only 22, she already qualifies as an almost unassailable artist, for she is able to make her master instrument sound like a jovial philosopher of impeccable taste and depth. In his down-and-out days. Sir Edward Elgar once taught music at an insane asylum; Du Pre's passionate intelligence spares the old knight's music any such reminiscence.

BENNY GOODMAN: NIELSEN CLARINET CONCERTO (RCA Victor). Those snipers who still underrate Carl Nielsen's compositions and Benny Goodman's artistry should hear this recording and swallow their words. Nielsen wrote his concerto for his favorite clarinetist, a gentleman of limited international fame named Aage Oxenvad. Aage may have been great, but Benny is fully capable of exploiting every ingenious opportunity Nielsen provides to indulge in clean-cut spectaculars, while forcing the listener to sway with the wry, often morose moods that the concerto invokes.

FRANCESCATTI PLAYS VIOLIN SPECTACULARS (Columbia). There is enough syrup in some of these "spectaculars" to mend the broken heart of the saddest gypsy--or cocker spaniel. Those who don't fall into these categories will wonder how a fine artist like Zino Francescatti could fail to inject backbone into the mournful, ornamental melodies written by Paganini, Tartini and Vitali.

CINEMA

TWO FOR THE ROAD. Audrey Hepburn is surprisingly good as a Virginia Woolf-cub, but Albert Finney is curiously unsympathetic as her husband in a union that keeps going on strike.

CASINO ROYALE. Several fine performances (David Niven, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr), five directors (including John Huston), $12 million and the rights to one of Ian Fleming's best James Bond novels have not prevented the movie from overspilling into incoherent vaudeville.

NAKED AMONG THE WOLVES. This East German film about a small Jewish boy who is protected from the Nazis by his fellow inmates of Buchenwald is told in a stark documentary style.

ACCIDENT. The scene is Oxford. The story involves a wan don (Dirk Bogarde) who tries to be a Don Juan with a nubile undergraduate while his wife (Vivian Merchant) is pregnant. Harold Pinter wrote the cryptic dialogue, Joseph Losey directed.

LA VIE DE CHATEAU. French Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting in this fresh and funny farce about how in Gaul all marriages seem to be divided into three partners.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE FALLING HILLS, by Perry Lentz. An excellent first novel about the massacre at Fort Pillow, Tenn., during the Civil War.

TWO TALES, by S. Y. Agnon. In this English translation of his supernatural fables, the 1966 Nobel Prizewinner for Literature emphatically demonstrates for Western readers why his adopted land of Israel counts him a cultural hero.

A MAN CALLED LUCY, by Pierre Accoce and Pierre Quet, recounts the career of Swiss-based Master Spy Rudolf ("Lucy") Roessler, who accurately warned the Allies of every invasion from Poland to Russia itself--and was not believed.

JUST AROUND THE CORNER: A HIGHLY SELECTIVE HISTORY OF THE THIRTIES, by Robert Bendiner. A notably undepressing recollection of the idiocies and ideologies that lent a special flavor to the Great Depression.

LANGUAGE AND SILENCE, by George Steiner. At 38, Steiner has earned a name as one of the leading U.S. literary critics and a possible successor to Edmund Wilson. This collection of essays shows why.

MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND? AND OTHER COMEDIES OF THE SEXUAL LIFE, by Graham Greene. Though sex is the comic ingredient in this collection of short stories, Greene proves that there is no desire so deep as the desire for companionship.

A MEETING BY THE RIVER, by Christopher Isherwood. In his usual charming, disarming way, Isherwood tells of a dissembling rascal who tries every psychological wile to keep his saintly brother from taking his final vows as a swami.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. Old (94) Mathematician-Philosopher Russell's own sprightly account of his early life clearly shows why he is Puck, Pan, Pythagoras and Peer, and helps explain in part why he is such a puzzle.

A SPORT AND A PASTIME, by James Salter. A beautifully evoked love affair between a Yale dropout and a French girl.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)

2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)

3. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (3)

4. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (5)

5. Capable of Honor, Drury (4)

6. Fathers, Gold (6)

7. The Captain, De Hartog (7)

8. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (8)

9. Go to the Widow-Maker, Jones (9) 10. Under the Eye of the Storm,

Hersey (10)

NONFICTION 1. The Death of a President, Manchester (1)

2. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (5)

3. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Steam (4)

4. Madame Sarah, Skinner (2)

5. Everything But Money, Levenson (3)

6. Paper Lion, Plimpton (8)

7. Games People Play, Berne (6)

8. The Jury Returns, Nizer (7)

9. Disraeli, Blake

10. Inside South America, Gunther (10)

* All times E.D.T.

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