TELEVISION
Thursday, July 27
CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.).* Dean Martin plays it straight in Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic (1963), also featuring Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney and Yvette Mimieux.
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The Mamas and The Papas, Dionne Warwick, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Mercer and Burt Bacharach get together in "The song-makers," explaining how they test--and play to--the public's ever-changing taste. Repeat.
Friday, July 28
THE AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). John Steed and Emma Peel in the jungles of London on the trail of some crooked cats.
Saturday, July 29
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Highlights of the swimming and track-and-field events at the Pan American games, live from Winnipeg, Canada.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). The Ugly American (1963), with Marlon Brando acting the part in Southeast Asia.
ABC NEWS SCOPE (10:30-11 p.m.). "This Is Saigon," the sights, sounds and strategic value of one of the world's most crowded--and dangerous--cities.
Sunday, July 30
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). "La Belle Epoque: The Boyhood Photos of J. H. Lartigue," the famous French photographer whose pictures chronicle the peaceful period before World War I.
DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). A searching study of aviation yesterday, today and in the sky-cluttered future, topped by a ride in the cockpit of a Boeing 727 jetliner.
NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SOCCER (CBS, 2:30-4:30 p.m.). The Atlanta Chiefs v. the Philadelphia Spartans, at Temple University Stadium in Philadelphia.
SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). The fishiest of stories: salmon in New Brunswick, Canada; sawfish in Central America's Lake Nicaragua; ice fishing in New York State.
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Autos, Autos, Everywhere" explores what's new in the world of automobiles and what the auto of tomorrow might look like. Repeat.
Monday, July 31
NBC NEWS SPECIAL (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). "Khrushchev in Exile--His Opinions and Revelations Today," produced by a special NBC team, features the first full-length interview since the downfall of the Russian leader in 1964. Repeat.
Tuesday, August 1
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Tenement" focuses on nine families living an impoverished existence in a predominantly Negro slum neighborhood isolated from mainstream Chicago. Repeat.
NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Victorians: Still Waters Run Deep. It's oung John Mildmay, not the loud-talking Captain Hawksley, who shows his mettle during a petticoat crisis in this drawing-room comedy.
THEATER
Some proven Broadway crowd pleasers for the vacationers flocking into New York, drawn by the city's social and cultural features:
YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING is a comedy hit by Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy) that deals with a common human preoccupation--sex. In four playlets, Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard make faces at sex, or shed tears over it, spoof it or sneer at it. The audience, for the most part, just laughs at it.
THE HOMECOMING is the winner of the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the Best Play of the Year. Harold Pinter's latest drama is characteristically spare, laconic and mysterious as it examines a family reunion more sadistic than sentimental.
BLACK COMEDY is the better half of two one-acters by British Playwright Peter Shaffer, provoking laughter by the sight of characters pretending that they are in the dark in a sculptor's studio when the lights blow out. The curtain raiser, White Lies, evokes only boredom.
CABARET, voted the Tony and Drama Critics' Circle awards as Best Musical, mounts a molehill of a book on a mountain of a production. Joel Grey is pluperfect as the degenerate M.C. of the Kit Kat Klub in the degenerating Berlin of the 1930s.
DON'T DRINK THE WATER is a series of fast gag lines and chuckles by Comedian Woody Allen, flimsily framed on the misadventures of an American family behind the Iron Curtain.
HALLELUJAH, BABY! is nothing, baby, except a vehicle for Singer Leslie Uggams to show her wares and wiles.
I DO! I DO! Mary Martin and Robert Preston are a team de force and the main attraction of this musical version of The Fourposter.
THE APPLE TREE is a musical potpourri. Mike Nichols directs and Barbara Harris stars in three playlets based on stories by Mark Twain, Frank Stockton and Jules Feiffer.
ILLYA, DARLING brings Melina Mercouri to Broadway to re-create the role of the Piraeus prostitute of Never On Sunday. Big, brassy and sometimes boring.
THE STAR-SPANGLED GIRL is Doc Simon's latest and least amusing comedy. Tony Perkins and Paul Sand play professional kooks whose male stronghold is upset by a determined square (Sheilah Wells).
Holdovers from last season include smash musicals--Fiddler on the Roof, Hello, Dolly!, Marne, and Man of La Man-cna--pius one comedy, the Gallic sex farce, Cactus Flower.
MUSIC
In the U.S., as in Europe, music festivals have become summertime Pied Pipers, luring willing audiences to performances of major orchestras and leading artists in the informal ambiance of tents and sheds, far from metropolitan areas:
MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL, Vt., under the direction of Pianist Rudolf Serkin, presents weekend programs of chamber music until Aug. 20. Pianist Ruth Laredo and Violinist Jaime Laredo, Pianist Marilyn
Neeley and Composer-Pianist Leon Kirchner are among the performers.
DARTMOUTH CONGREGATION OF THE ARTS, Hanover, N.H., offers symphony concerts Sunday evenings and chamber ensemble concerts Wednesday evenings. A final concert will be given Saturday, Aug. 19. German Composer Hans Werner Henze will lecture and conduct until July 30; Aaron Copland will be on hand Aug. 7-19.
TANGLEWOOD, Lenox, Mass. On Aug. 5, Erich Leinsdorf conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Fidelia (1805 score), Beethoven's only opera, with German Soprano Hanne-Lore Kuhse singing the lead. The Boston Pops performs Aug. 8; Aug. 17 is "Tanglewood on Parade," with vocal, orchestral and chamber-music concerts by members of the Berkshire Music Center. Verdi's Requiem will be given Aug. 19. Chamber-music concerts are on Tuesdays through Aug. 15.
METROPOLITAN OPERA, at Newport, R.I. The Verdi Festival opens Aug. 17 with Macbeth, starring Soprano Grace Bumbry. Rigoletto with Roberta Peters, La Traviata and Il Trovatore with Gabriella Tucci, I Vespri Siciliani, Otello, starring Renata Tebaldi, and A'ida are scheduled between Aug. 18 and 26.
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra has scheduled sixteen concerts from Aug. 3 through Aug. 27. Guest conductors include Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Charles Munch, Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, and Julius Rudel. Pianist Van Cliburn and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are among the performers.
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, Daytona Beach. Conductors Istvan Kertesz, Jascha Horenstein and Szymon Goldberg lead the London Symphony Orchestra; guest stars include Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and Singer Judith Raskin. Until Aug. 6.
SANTA FE OPERA FESTIVAL, N. Mex., has scheduled two American premieres. Car-dillac, by Paul Hindemith, will be sung July 26 and 28, and Hans Werner Henze's Boulevard Solitude is scheduled for Aug. 2 and 4. La Boheme, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro and Salome will be sung Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Aug. 26.
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL, Aspen, Colo. The Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Walter Susskind, performs weekends until Aug. 27. The Marriage of Figaro will be produced July 27, 29 and 30. Georges Bizet's Le Docteur Miracle and Humphrey Searle's The Diary of a Madman will be given Aug. 17 and 19. Among the guests: India's master of the sitar, Ravi Shankar, in a program of Indian raga music, Aug. 12.
STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ont. On July 30, the National Festival Orchestra will play Bach's Partita in E Minor and Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto. On Aug. 6, there will be chamber music, and on Aug. 18, Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist. The Bach Mass in B Minor will conclude the program on Aug. 27.
CINEMA
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds are brave enough to appear unattractive and unsympathetic as well as funny in this slick, cynical film about a marital split.
THE FAMILY WAY. From the raw material of a young couple (Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett) unable to consummate their marriage, the producer-director team of Roy and John Boulting has fashioned a delicate comedy.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. The latest James Bond effort, with Sean Connery back in his harness, unfortunately comes to only 006 3/4.
THE DIRTY DOZEN. This is the definitive enlisted man's picture of World War II, in which all officers are hypocritical or stupid, and only Lee Marvin is tough enough to win respect.
TO SIR, WITH LOVE. A British expedition into the blackboard jungle, with Sidney Poitier investing a fine and subtle warmth into the role of a starchy teacher in a slum school.
A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau creates a high triumph of taste in a difficult role that could easily have turned out merely leering and low down in this film about a husband bent on an adulterous bender.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A happy transition to the screen of Neil Simon's comic Broadway hit with Original Cast Members Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick and the crafty addition of Jane Fonda.
BOOKS
Best Reading
OUR CROWD, by Stephen Birmingham. New York's great Jewish families--the Warburgs, Guggenheims, Strauses, Lehmans, Goldmans, Loebs, to name a few--once maintained a social structure as exclusive in its way as Mrs. Astor's. Author Birmingham renders an affectionate portrait of what he calls Manhattan's "other Society."
SIGNS AND WONDERS, by Francoise Mallet-Joris. Against a backdrop of Gaullist France near the end of the Algerian war, a writer plods his slow march to lunacy. In her sixth novel, Mile. Mallet-Joris again demonstrates her ability to create worlds that readers accept instantly.
THE WOBBLIES, by Patrick Renshaw. The Industrial Workers of the World lasted barely 50 years as a national movement, but a lively half-century it was. A British scholar chronicles the activities of the labor organization whose innovations included the sitdown strike and integrated locals.
SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This carefully culled selection of the tragic Welsh poet's letters painfully--and touchingly--shows that his great chronic fault was a reckless profligacy in practically everything he did.
A PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. Turning to autobiography after 51 years as critic, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright and novelist, Wilson draws entries from a journal begun in 1914. The result is a rich account juxtaposing his growth as a writer with the breakdown of his snug prewar world.
SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. Translating the old story into the contemporary idiom, Barthelme goes wild with words. His amusingly refurbished novel of the absurd is as episodic and pointless as a kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting.
STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING, by Samuel Beckett. In 16 carefully wrought stories and bright fragments, Beckett restates his eternal theme--that the ravages of time are unending.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)
2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)
3. The Plot, Wallace (3)
4. The Chosen, Potok (4)
5. Washington, D.C., Vidal (5)
6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6)
7. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (7)
8. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (8)
9. The King of the Castle, Holt (10) 10. Fathers, Gold
NONFICTION
1. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (4)
2. Everything But Money, Levenson (2)
3. The Death of a President, Manchester (1)
4. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (6)
5. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, White, ed. (5)
6. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (10)
7. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (3)
8. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh
9. Games People Play, Berne (7)
10. Madame Sarah, Skinner (8)
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