TELEVISION

Wednesday, July 3

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).*Dramatization of the espionage systems employed by foreign powers in U.S. towns and cities. Repeat.

Thursday, July 4

Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). George Gobel presents internationally known variety acts, including the Half Brothers and Anden's Poodles. Repeat.

Friday, July 5

News (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Summary of President Kennedy's European trip. Color.

Saturday, July 6

ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Daytona "Firecracker 400" Stock Car Championship, from Daytona Beach, Fla. Also, men's singles finals of All-England Tennis Championships from Wimbledon, England.

The Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Supervisor at a boys' reformatory (James Broderick) is charged with murder for the death of a twelve-year-old inmate. Repeat.

Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). President's Lady, the story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson (Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston).

Sunday, July 7

Issues and Answers (ABC. 2:30-3 p.m.). Guest: new FCC Chairman E. William Henry.

The Twentieth Century (CBS. 6-6:30 p.m.). History of the development of jet aircraft, filmed at U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Repeat.

Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). Alec Guinness and John Mills star in Tunes of Glory.

Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Courtroom drama of a British M.P. trying to hide a blot on his war record. Jack Hawkins, Pamela Brown.

Monday, July 8

David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Reunion with bomber group that dropped the atom bomb over Hiroshima. Repeat.

Tuesday. July 9

Report from Tokyo (NBC. 10:30-11 p.m.). Premiere of series seeking each week to capture the current mood of a city.

THEATER

Straw Hat

Stars from the less-than-celestial spheres of television, movies and nightclubs have come to dominate summer theater (TIME, June 28). Mostly they tour the barns and tents in package shows--usually in post-Broadway revivals, occasionally in pre-Broadway tryouts. Some more of this season's packages, with their scheduled stops between July 2 and Aug. 5:

The Curious Savage is John (Teahouse) Patrick's 1950 comedy about an eccentric widow kept luxuriously in a mental institution by her family to prevent her from giving away her fortune. Spring Byington will play the part created by Lillian Gish. Ogunquit, Me.; Falmouth, Mass.; Fitchburg, Mass.; Laconia, N.H.; Ivoryton, Conn.

The Tender Trap opened in 1954 with Ronny Graham on a couch in a clinch. This production features Tab Hunter as the beleaguered bachelor. Latham. N.Y.; Nyack, N.Y.; Dayton, Ohio; Miami, Fla.

Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter's musical melding of bard and bawd, with Marguerite Piazza as the tamed shrew. Wallingford, Conn.; Framingham. Mass.; Warwick, R.I.; North Tonawanda. N.Y.

Oh, Men! Oh, Women!, the battle of the sexes fought on a psychoanalyst's couch (by Franchot Tone in 1953), now with Raymond (Perry Mason) Burr. Highland Park, 111.; Vineland. Ont.; Berkeley, Calif.

The Mackerel Plaza, a pre-Broadway tryout of a new comedy by William Mc-Cleery, is based on Peter De Vries's novel about a widowed clergyman whose plans to remarry are frustrated by a campaign to name the town square after his first wife. Hal (Mark Twain) Holbrook stars. Cyril Ritchard directs. Westport. Conn.; Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Louisville, Ky.

She Didn't Say Yes is a tryout of Lonnie Coleman's comedy set in Greenwich Village, which has Joan Hackett caught in a triangle with her editor husband (William Redfield) and her novelist sister (Joan Caulfield). Mountainhome. Pa.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Laconia. N.H.; Falmouth. Mass.: Fitchburg. Mass.

CINEMA

8 1/2. Cast as a director remarkably like Italian Director Federico Fellini (who in fact directed the film), Marcello Mastroianni cannot seem to get started on a new movie project. The Fellini-Mastroianni stream of consciousness lays bare the director's inner confusions and frustra tions, includes dreams, snatches of vaudeville, a little sex and a lot of religion. The total effect is surprisingly coherent and entertaining.

PT 109. In this overlong first step in the cinematic canonization of John F. Ken nedy, Actor Cliff Robertson wisely jettisons any attempt at the J.F.K. speech and hair styles. It is bad enough to hear shipmates Ty Hardin and Robert Gulp talk disrespectfully to the gung-ho young lieutenant, but then, they didn't realize he was going to be President. Only Kennedy knew that.

Irma La Douce. Director Billy Wilder maintains that prostitution can be fun. and Shirley MacLaine goes along with the gag. Jack Lemmon. as her Rover Boy lover boy, mugs magnificently as he bumbles about his business of trying to make Shirley go straight.

Cleopatra. Every dollar of the $40 million spent on this epic-to-end-all-epics is dazzlingly apparent in the tons of gold leaf, typhoons of pink smoke, and wilderness of bosoms that assault the beholder. But the world's most expensive star. Elizabeth Taylor, plays Cleo as if she were doing a fancy-dress dream sequence from Butterfield 8. Richard Burton is all too realistic as Antony--the man who sold himself down the Nile for a sex symbol.

Hud. Paul Newman. Patricia Neal. Melvyn Douglas and Brandon de Wilde star in the most brazenly honest picture to be made in the U.S. this season. If the question "Why Hud?" is never answered, the question "Why Hollywood?" gets a rousing and affirmative reply.

The L-Shaped Room. Leslie Caron comes of age as an unwed mother caught in a tender romance she never bargained for. The dialogue is pungent, the situation grimly realistic, and the whole film is poignantly believable.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Harry, the Rat with Women, by Jules Feiffer. From satiric cartoons, Feiffer not so lightly turns to fable writing--and the tragicomic career of a body-by-Fisher king of love and narcissism.

House Upon the Sand, by Jurgis Gliauda. A Lithuanian novelist who endured the German occupation in World War II studies the corrosive effect of Nazi bloodymindedness on a decent German aristocrat.

The Contrary Experience, by Herbert Read. A singular Englishman with a gift for plural and paradoxical living--he has been both a pacifist and a decorated soldier, an anarchist and a successful bureaucrat--British Critic Read tells the rich and readable story of his lives.

The Coin of Carthage, by Bryher. The Punic Wars, seen not so much on the battlefronts as in the backwaters of living and in the private hopes and problems of small people.

Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. Though it sometimes sounds like collected scenes from various past novels, O'Hara's latest explores entertainingly a new area of the U.S. social order--academic life around a small college campus.

The Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov. A comic fantasy about Russian emigre life in Berlin by the most famous literary magician now at work.

The Shoes of the Fisherman, by Morris West. Spiritual hope wrestles with faith in purely earthly progress in this powerful novel about a new Pope, an old Communist and the Catholic world.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (1, last week)

2. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (2)

3. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (6)

4. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (3)

5. Raise High the Roof Beam, Salinger (5)

6. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (4)

7. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (7)

8. City of Night, Rechy (8)

9. When the Legends Die, Borland

10. The Bedford Incident, Rascovich (9)

NONFICTION

1. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (2)

2. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (I)

3. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (4)

4. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (3)

5. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (6)

6. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis

7. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson

8. The Living Sea, Cousteau (7)

9. You Are Not the Target, Huxley (5) 10. Final Verdict, St. Johns (8)

-All times E.D.T.

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