TELEVISION

Wednesday, June 24

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Guests: Mary Tyler Moore and Eddie Foy Jr. Repeat.

Friday, June 26

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Jason Robards Jr. in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Repeat.

Saturday, June 27

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Dublin Horse Show and the National A.A.U. Track and Field championships.

THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "The Uncivil War," a divorce action in New York State, with William Shatner and Diana van der Vlis. Repeat.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:27 p.m.). Lust for Life, M.G.M.'s 1956 biography of Vincent Van Gogh, with Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Gauguin. Color.

ALL-AMERICA FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 9:30-conclusion). East meets West in this match between 60 top college players who graduated this year. Held in Buffalo.

Sunday, June 28

DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Part 1 of a tour of historic Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., restored to what it was like 100 years ago.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). An interview, via Telstar, with French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville.

WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Disney creations at the World's Fair, featuring the delightful UNICEF exhibit. Repeat.

DU PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Flight Deck, a documentary on the hazardous job of the flight-deck crew aboard the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Monday, June 29

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Part 2 of "The Funny Men," featuring old film clips of Fred Allen, W. C. Fields, Will Rogers, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and so on. Repeat.

Tuesday, June 30

TEXACO STAR PARADE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The second of Meredith Willson's musical variety specials, this one features Debbie Reynolds introducing highlights from her forthcoming film version of Willson's The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

THEATER

On Broadway

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.

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.

DYLAN is another acting triumph for Alec Guinness, as he bodies forth 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.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK turns a six-flight walkup 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-teaser 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

Chamber Music

AN EVENING OF ELIZABETHAN MUSIC (RCA Victor). Nineteen short pieces, called "broken music" in Shakespeare's day because they were performed during a play or between the acts. This recently rediscovered 16th century pop music was and is played by a six-man consort: violin, flute, bass viol and lute with a rhythm section of pandora and cittern. Impeccably recorded by the Julian Bream Consort, with lute solos by Virtuoso Bream.

BEETHOVEN: STRING QUARTETS VOL. Ill (Deutsche Grammophon: 4 LPs). The distinguished London-based Amadeus Quartet concludes its Beethoven cycle with these six works. Perhaps the most-admired chamber music ever written, they include Quartets 12 through 16 plus the thorny, abandoned original finale of No. 13, known as the Great Fugue. The Amadeus plays with virtuosity and feeling, but its recordings have to compete with those of the venerable Budapest String Quartet (Columbia). The Budapest has a mellower tone and a more flowing and integrated style The dialogue of the Amadeus is outspoken; sometimes it is more gripping, but occasionally they lose the thread.

BRAHMS: SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO, NOS. 1 AND 3 (Columbia). Isaac Stern pours out the lavish, songlike melodies of the first ("Rain") sonata with unparalleled richness and sweetness of tone, and in Sonata No. 3 adds the flashes of brilliance.

WILLIAM SYDEMAN: MUSIC FOR FLUTE, GUITAR, VIOLA, AND PERCUSSION (Composers Recordings Inc.) is one of Sydeman's 30 chamber works, all scored for unorthodox instrumental combinations. Composed in 1962, it has a chittering, fragmented, but pleasant quality, and a muted sound, as though the quintet (including two percussionists) from the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble were playing it under water.

SHOSTAKOVICH: QUARTETS 4 AND 8 (Mercury). Shostakovich's late chamber works are better than his late symphonies. The eighth quartet, a secular requiem for the victims of Fascism, was written in 1960 and is daringly monochromatic: three of the five movements are largo, and the often-repeated main theme changes only from a moan into a sigh. Even the joyful sections seem to shift into a remembrance of gaiety long past. A subtle performance by the Borodin String Quartet, which the U.S.S.R. will send on a first visit to the U.S. in October.

CINEMA

THAT MAN FROM RIO. In a hilarious parody of Hollywood adventure movies, French Director Philippe de Broca fires cliches at the screen like soggy old lemons, with Hero Jean-Paul Belmondo panting through many a tight squeeze.

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A ne'er-do-well aristocrat (Denholm Elliott) tutors an ambitious junior clerk (Alan Bates) who yearns for Establishment status in Director Clive Donner's black comedy about hoary old England.

THE ORGANIZER. Marcello Mastroianni is perfect as a scraggly 19th century revolutionary in this timeless, beautifully photographed, warmly human drama about workers who strike against sweatshop living in a Turin textile mill.

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. Sophia Loren separates the men from the boys in three racy Italian fables directed with gusto by Vittorio De Sica. All three men are Marcello Mastroianni.

BECKET. England's 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton) dares the wrath of his onetime friend King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) in an eye-and ear-filling spectacle based on Jean Anouilh's drama.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. In a sly spoof of Ian Fleming's thriller formula, Secret Agent 007 (Sean Connery) is lured to Istanbul for hand-to-hand combat with hired assassins and a high-proof blonde.

THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT introduces Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth as a pair of teen-age metrognomes who liven up New York in pursuit of Concert Pianist Peter Sellers, their favorite celebrity.

THE SILENCE. Two women and a child travel to a seemingly godforsaken city that is the geographical center of this dark, brooding allegory directed with breathtaking virtuosity by Ingmar Bergman.

BOOKS

Best Reading

TO AN EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. A funny, unpretentious novel about a small clutch of men who make their living in Greenwich Village by being "intellectual." Author Markfield has clearly read his Joyce very closely, but his style is lighter and his wit strictly 1964.

LES NUITS DE PARIS, by Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne. Restif may be somewhat of a comedown from the great court gossip, Saint-Simon, but he set down the life in Paris just before the Revolution vividly and prophetically, and thus produced, without his aristocratic brain ever knowing it, an indelible picture of an 18th-century slum.

THE SCARPERER, by Brendan Behan. To "scarper" in Irish 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), when the mercurial writer wrote his best, ebullient prose.

THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carre. The bestselling author's first two books have been reissued in one volume. Both are good, but admirers of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold will be especially drawn to A Murder for Quality, which has its own suspenseful plot but at the same time reads like a first draft for Spy --characters, Cold and all.

A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. The Nobel-prizewinning author wrote this memoir of his lean years in the Paris of the '20s when he was in his 50s, rich, famous but passe. Feast reveals Hemingway's deadly, deadpan sense of humor, his lingering romanticism, but most of all, the degree to which he fooled himself.

RAINER MARIA RILKE, THE YEARS IN SWITZERLAND, by J. R. von Salis. From an eventless life spent alone, Rilke drew lyric and contemplative poems that have made him a source of modern thought as well as modern poetry. Von Salis retraces what he can find of Rilke's life, and describes the few people (all women) who influenced it.

JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. In A.D. 361, Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate took an 18-month back step to the Hellenic gods, using all his imperial power to destroy Christianity. In this ingenious historical novel, Gore Vidal brings wit and urbanity to his subject, but does not quite capture the spirit or the rounded personality of his elegant hero.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week)

2. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (2)

3. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (4)

4. The Spire, Golding (3)

5. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (6)

6. The Group, McCarthy (5) 7. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (8)

8. The Martyred, Kim (10)

9. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (7) 10. Julian, Vidal

NONFICTION

1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1)

2. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (2)

3. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (3)

4. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (4)

5. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (6)

6. The Naked Society, Packard (5)

7. In His Own Write, Lennon (7)

8. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (8)

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

10. The Du Ponts of Delaware, Carr

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