Summer, and the time of the repeats, is upon the land.
Wednesday, June 19
Kraft Mystery Theater (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A hardy perennial returns for a third season of summer chills with "Shadow of a Man," starring Ed Begley, Broderick Crawford and Jack Kelly. Color.
Friday, June 21
The Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The visit last fall to the Paar show by Senator and Mrs. Edward M. Kennedy, Genevieve, Kookla, Ollie, and Hans Conried. Color. Repeat.
Saturday, June 22
ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Track and Field Championships at St. Louis.
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). White Witch Doctor, with Susan Hayward as an American nurse, Robert Mitchum as the Congo's best white hunter.
Sunday, June 23
Directions '63 (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). "The Future of the Negro Child of the North."
Issues and Answers (ABC, 2:30-3 p.m.). Guest: Senator J. William Fulbright.
The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). An extra half hour has been added this week to celebrate the 15th anniversary of TV's own Great Stone Face with highlights from past shows.
Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Lauren Bacall, Walter Matthau and Robert Alda in "A Dozen Deadly Roses." Color.
Howard K. Smith--News and Comment (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The last of the series, which has not been renewed.
Tuesday, June 25
Picture This (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of game show hosted by Jerry Van Dyke in which mixed teams of celebrities and members of the audience compete for "modest prizes."
The Keefe Brasselle Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A new summer variety series with Regulars Noelle Adam (the leggy photographer's assistant of No Strings), Sammy Kaye and Rocky Graziano. Guest: Carol Channing.
THEATER
On Broadway
She Loves Me is an old-fashioned musical that believes in love and has an up-to-date way of showing it, even if it is set in a perfume shop in Old Budapest. He (Daniel Massey) and She (Barbara Cook) make wistful music together.
Photo Finish reduces the Seven Ages of Man to four--20, 40, 60 and 80--and puts them all onstage at the same time. Author-Director-Star Peter Ustinov, as the 80-year-old, plays philosophical host to his earlier selves, and he treats them, and life, as balefully amusing.
Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein, has been stained with the familiar finish of Jewish family comedy, but the splintery grain of life still shows through it.
Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, commits the vibrant resources of the Actors Studio Theatre to a 4 1/2-hour play that would be more than a little stale and distinctly interminable without them. What salvages the drama is the emotional integrity of Geraldine Page and her acting confreres. Engagement ends July 13.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. A history professor (Arthur Hill) and his bitter half (Uta Hagen) mercilessly tell all the news that's not fit to print about each other.
Little Me wears its high-polish frivolities with a sophisticated air. The musical's funmaster-in-chief is Sid Caesar, who has never been droller.
Off Broadway
The Boys from Syracuse. Breeding tells, and this musical is a thoroughbred, originally sired by Shakespeare (Comedy of Errors) out of Plautus. The Rodgers tunes are a lilting delight, the Hart lyrics are a tonic to the ear, and a Most Adorable Cutie award should be bestowed on the bewitchingly gifted Julienne Marie.
Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello, offers a model revival of a modern classic.
CINEMA
Hand in the Trap. Argentine Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson takes a Bergmanesque approach in telling a story of passion and provincial puritanism. His caustic comments on the Argentine way of life, which makes prisoners of women, are both vivid and ironic.
The List of Adrian Messenger. Director John Huston seems as confused about the plot of this gimmicked potboiler as audiences will be. But the stars--George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Kirk Douglas--are fun to watch. So are Bit-Players Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster and Robert Mitchum, in extravagant disguises.
Hud. Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon de Wilde and Patricia Neal make up almost the entire cast of this magnificently pungent film about an unregenerate heel, a decent old man, and a boy who makes a choice of heroes.
Pickpocket. French Director Robert Bresson launches an excursion into the cold world of Nietzschean philosophy as he takes his hero, a pickpocket, through a series of emotional situations. The film propounds paradoxes: that man must sin to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions.
The L-Shaped Room. Leslie Caron plays an unwed mother-to-be with such dignity and sensitivity that the predictable twists of the plot can be overlooked. The dialogue is some of the most believable to be heard on the screen in many seasons.
Winter Light. The protagonist of this somberly beautiful picture is a Swedish pastor who not only fails himself but fails everyone who needs his help because he doubts the very existence of God. Ingmar Bergman's latest film is colder, darker and even more relentless than the others.
Doctor No. This Ian Fleming thriller presents Secret Agent James Bond (Sean Connery) in all his exquisite martini-and-mayhem splendor. Maybe a bit too splendid to be true.
55 Days at Peking. The Boxer Rebellion gets the wide-screen treatment, and the result is a full-scale war. Among the foreign devils who make the Chinese so mad are David Niven, Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston and Paul Lukas.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. Transplanting a Southampton belle to the Groves of Academe, America's poet laureate of provincial mores appraises small-town college life for the first time and proposes that even the simplest marriage is really complicated.
The Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov. A magician of language rummages in his tarnished memories of Russian emigre life in Berlin, and comes up with a delightful comic fantasy--and a symbolic assault on Philistinism in Russian culture.
The Stories of William Sansom. Field trips into a weird story-spinner's world, peopled with gentle stranglers and murderous loves, beasts who think like men and men who dream themselves into beasts.
Anti-lntellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter. Anti-intellectualism, argues Hofstadter, is part and parcel of democracy, and he demonstrates the point with lively discourses on famous anti-intellectual mavericks and movements.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by C. G. Jung. A fascinating autobiographical account of the dream life of the great Swiss psychologist, who, in rejecting Freud and in pursuing his own mystic world, at last turned his back on much of the scientific thought of his own time.
The Shoes of the Fisherman, by Morris West. In a powerful novel, a Catholic writer explores man's spiritual hope of heaven and material faith in earthly progress--framed by a dialogue between a Pope and a Soviet leader.
The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George, by Lord Beaverbrook. A great press lord who was also a politician pungently recalls how he helped topple one of England's most flamboyant Prime Ministers.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (3, last week)
2. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (1)
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (7)
4. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (2)
5. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (4)
6. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara
7. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (5)
8. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (9)
9. City of Night, Rechy
10. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (10)
NONFICTION
1. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (1)
2. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2)
3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (5)
4. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis
5. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (7)
6. The Living Sea, Cousteau
7. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (3)
8. The Ordeal of Power, Hughes (4)
9. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (8)
10. Final Verdict, St. Johns (10)
* All times E.D.T.
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