The networks plan to cover the nominating proceedings at San Francisco's Cow Palace until the last ballot is counted. CBS is using four times as much manpower and equipment as in 1960, features 22 on-the-scene correspondents, including Anchorman Walter Cronkite, Reporters Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid. NBC has brought 60 tons of equipment, is building four complete studios, and Chet Huntley and David Brinkley will be bolstered by Floor Reporters John Chancellor and Frank McGee. In addition to Pundits Howard K. Smith and Edward P. Morgan, ABC viewers can benefit at least twice a day from the insights of Special Commentators Dwight Eisenhower, Ike's former Press Secretary James Hagerty, and ABC Editor William Lawrence.
Wednesday, July 15
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, NBC, and CBS, 4:30 p.m.-conclusion).*
Thursday, July 16
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, 7 p.m.-conclusion; NBC, 7-11 p.m.; and CBS, 7:30 p.m.-conclusion).
Friday, July 17
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, 7 p.m.-conclusion; NBC, 7-11 p.m.; and CBS, 7:30 p.m.-conclusion).
Saturday, July 18
46th P.G.A. CHAMPIONSHIP (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). The nation's leading professional golfers compete from the Columbus Country Club, in Columbus, Ohio.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Dana Wynter and Richard Egan star in The View from Pompey's Head. Color.
Sunday, July 19
P.G.A. CHAMPIONSHIP (CBS, 4:30-6 p.m.). Final holes of the championship.
EISENHOWER REVIEWS THE G.O.P. CONVENTION (ABC, 5-6 p.m.).
THEATER
Straw Hat
There has always been some question as to whether American actors can successfully get themselves up in tights and doublets, flick the old rapiers around, and spew forth Shakespeare. Some have shown they can indeed, and in ever growing numbers others are getting the chance to try, most importantly in the Shakespeare festivals and rep companies that have sprung up from coast to coast, in doors and out, even in reproductions of Elizabethan theaters. Several cities have free performances in parks. And one outdoor theater has imported an entire British rep company.
Notable offerings include: OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Ashland): Merchant of Venice, Lear, Twelfth Night and Henry VI, Part 1.
OLD GLOBE THEATER (San Diego): Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure.
PILGRIMAGE THEATER (Hollywood Hills): John Houseman's U.C.L.A. production of Lear, starring Morris Carnovsky.
RAVINIA FESTIVAL (Highland Park, III.): Henry V, Twelfth Night and Hamlet, put on by a British company under the direction of Peter Dews (who put together TV's "Age of Kings" series).
TYRONE GUTHRIE THEATER (Minneapolis): Henry V. starring George Grizzard.
GREAT LAKES SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Lakewood, Ohio): The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado, Henry VI, Richard III and Antony and Cleopatra.
SHAKESPEARE IN CENTRAL PARK (Louisville, Ky.): Shrew, Macbeth and As You Like It (all free).
IRISH HILLS PLAYHOUSE (Onsted, Mich.): Richard III, Shrew, Twelfth Night, Macbeth and Comedy of Errors.
SHAKESPEARE SUMMER FESTIVAL (Washington, D.C.): Midsummer Night's Dream at the foot of the Washington Monument (free).
ACADEMY THEATER (Atlanta): Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 2.
AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Stratford, Conn.): Much Ado, Richard III and Hamlet.
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (New York City): Othello at Central Park's Delacorte Theater and Midsummer Night's Dream touring the boroughs (both free).
STRATFORD FESTIVAL (Stratford, Ont.): Richard II and Lear.
CINEMA
A SHOT IN THE DARK. As Inspector Clouseau of the Suurete, Peter Sellers pratfalls his way through a multiple murder case and proves beyond reasonable doubt that he is one of the funniest men alive.
ZULU. Brisk, bloody, eye-filling adventure inspired by the heroism of 130 British soldiers who fought off 4,000 Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift, Natal, in 1879.
THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. This massive song-and-dancer based on Meredith Willson's also-ran Broadway musical owes nearly all its buoyancy to a raucous, winning, free-style performance by Debbie Reynolds as the rich mountain gal who yearns to make a splash in Denver society.
THAT MAN FROM RIO. Poisoned darts and snappish Brazilian crocodiles are among the dangers faced by Jean-Paul Belmondo in hilarious spoof of all the next-earthquake-please action pictures.
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top, this British comedy studies a climber (Alan Bates) who hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of snobbery.
THE ORGANIZER. In this vivid, beautiful account of a 19th century strike in Turin, Marcello Mastroianni fascinatingly portrays the early labor leader as a kind of holy hoodlum.
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The ubiquitous Mastroianni, evenly matched against one of Italy's great natural wonders, Sophia Loren, in three racy modern fables directed by Vittorio De Sica.
BECKET. A stunningly filmed dramatization of the church-state conflict that becomes a death struggle between 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton) and King Henry II (Peter OToole).
BOOKS
Best Reading THE FAR FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. These poems, written in the last two years before Roethke died of a heart attack, are beautiful in themselves and provide for him an astonishingly true memorial. All the themes of which he was a master reappear: the greenhouse, the root, the plant and a troubled reaching toward God.
TO AN EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. On a kind of comic Volkswagen odyssey through Brooklyn, four Greenwich Village intellectuals search for the funeral of a compatriot and discover themselves: pathetic, rather pretentious fellows who at heart prefer the cult of Humphrey Bogart to the cult of the Partisan Review.
TWO NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. These short novels contain glittering prose, a variety of verbal tricks, and almost too many tours de force to digest at one reading. Already known as the most tart-tongued of British critics, Author Brophy has now hit a fictional stride that should place her well up in the ranks of Britain's formidable array of lady novelists.
THE SCARPERER, by Brendan Behan. To "scarper" in Gaelic 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).
A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. This memoir of Paris, which the author suggested should be read as fiction, has a ghostly quality: it reads as if the author had written in the '20s what in fact he wrote in the '50s. All the famous writers are there: James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, the Fitzgeralds, characterized memorably, if sometimes nastily.
THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carre. A reissue of the author's first two books in one volume. One is a slightly fey mystery set in C. Day Lewis' social set at Oxford; the other is a dress rehearsal for The Spy Who Came In from the Cold--with all the props, some of the characters and bleak tone. Both plots are exciting.
JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. Into his fleeting reign as Emperor of Rome (A.D. 361-363) Julian crammed enough wars and grandiose plans to make Alexander the Great seem inert. With elegance and flourish, Vidal's novel records every last adventure, including Julian's attempt to abolish Christianity, but it does not quite capture its elusive subject.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week)
2. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (2)
3. Armageddon, Uris (6)
4. Julian, Vidal (8)
5. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (3)
6. The Spire, Golding (7)
7. The Group, McCarthy (5)
8. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (4)
9. The 480, Burdick
10. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (10)
NONFICTION
1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1)
2. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (3)
3. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (2)
4. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman
5. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (8)
6. Harlow, Schulman
7. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (5)
8. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (4)
9. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (9)
10. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (10)
*All times E.D.T.
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