Wednesday, May 26 SHINDIG (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* The Rolling Stones and a host of other rock 'n' rollers.

Thursday, May 27

PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Live TV entertainment, for a change, from Chicago's McCormick Place. Guest stars Richard Chamberlain, Diahann Carroll and the New Christy Minstrels will be performing at the annual convention of the National Restaurant Association.

Friday, May 28

FDR (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). "Fury in the East," including action in the China-Burma-India theater and the war in the Pacific during 1942.

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Comic Jonathan Winters and Actor Robert Morley are guests, along with Singer Robert Goulet.

Saturday, May 29

SECRET AGENT (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). This imported espionage series presents Patrick McGoohan as British agent John Drake, who's no match for the U.S.'s Man from U.N.C.L.E. and no kin to his compatriot James Bond. The show, however, is in its first run here, which makes it one of the few new things around.

Sunday, May 30

MARTIN'S LIE (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The American premiere of the Gian Carlo Menotti opera that was first performed last June in Bristol Cathedral as part of the Bath Festival. This performance was taped by the original cast.

NBC SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The Boston Marathon, the U.S.'s oldest and foremost re-creation of the classic race, which attracts not only Olympic contenders but an assortment of aging pavement pounders.

Monday, May 31

WHAT WENT WRONG IN SANTO DOMINGO? (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A CBS News Special on the events leading up to the crisis in the Dominican Republic, with appearances by former President Juan Bosch, Rebel Leader Francisco Caamano Deno and U.S. Special Envoy John Bartlow Martin.

Tuesday, June 1

GRAND CANYON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch is guide for a mule trip from the rim to the bottom of the canyon and a boat ride down the Colorado River rapids. Color.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE GLASS MENAGERIE. This revival of the 20-year-old Tennessee Williams play is so much the best drama on Broadway that it is as if a graveyard of mediocrity had abruptly kicked off all its tombstones. The cast, headed by Maureen Stapleton, lacks the distinction of the play, but the glow of this American classic bathes all that it touches.

HALF A SIXPENCE. A musical-comedy version of H. G. Wells's Kipps, trips the fantastic ever so lightly. Tommy Steele smiles all the while as a cockney lad who blithely gains and loses fortunes.

THE ODD COUPLE. Two men suffering hangovers from marriages on the rocks try living together and not liking it. The result is inebriating hilarity.

LUV. Three super-self-aware characters, dizzy from watching the way their little worlds turn, are given a satiric whirl by Playwright Murray Schisgal. Alan Arkin, Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach are the comic dervishes.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. A righteous busybody (Alan Alda) causes a neighboring prostitute (Diana Sands) to be evicted from her place. She puts him in his--to his dismay and the audience's delight.

Off Broadway

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER, REVISITED. The sly humors of a talented cast delightfully enhance the sophisticated wit and verve of lesser-known Porter tunes.

JUDITH. Jean Giraudoux has fashioned a modern parable on the motivations of heroism and piety from the apocryphal story of the Jewess who glorified herself and saved her nation by destroying a pagan conqueror. Rosemary Harris' interpretation of Judith embraces all the facets of a complex and beguiling woman.

RECORDS

Jazz and Blues

JOHN COLTRANE: A LOVE SUPREME (Impulse). This is a free-form hymn of praise to God, written by the avant-garde jazz tenor saxophonist, who explains his "spiritual awakening" and dedication in the record jacket notes. The opening movement is a strong-voiced Acknowledgement, but Resolution sounds more like Irresolution and Pursuance is a wild and ragged chase, ending in Psalm, a powerful, brooding declaration of faith. Coltrane's sax is backed by piano, drums and bass.

ELLA AT JUAN-LES-PINS (Verve). Recorded last summer at the outdoor jazz festival on the Cote d'Azur, this is one of Ella Fitzgerald's best albums, combining a happy, natural swing with artfulness. Songs by Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hart become trellises for her looping embellishments and floating improvisations, but the melodies are never obscured, and her voice changes color and size to match the lyrics.

!VIVA! VAUGHAN (Mercury). That successful Girl from Ipanema loosed a flood of south-of-the-border albums in Latin both sultry and snappy. Sarah Vaughan goes snappy for most of these songs like Fascinating Rhythm, Fever and Stompin' at the Savoy. Frank Foster's band is big with trombones, violins and percussion, but Sarah exuberantly tops it.

THE REAL EARL HINES (Focus). It Was Earl "Fatha" Hines who established the solo piano on the jazz bandstand, but until last spring he had never given a piano recital. While the recording of the occasion has a mushy sound, the playing itself is mesmerizing with its strutting chords, feathered runs and airborne arpeggios. Hines plays Tea for Two like sixty, invents a dozen ways of saying I Ain't Got Nobody, and bomps out a slow but tantalizing St. Louis Blues.

EARL MINES: THE GRAND TERRACE BAND (RCA Victor). The King of Pianology in his Chicago big band days. Besides the swift and brilliantly trumpeting piano of 1939-40 (in Piano Man, Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues and his radio theme song, Deep Forest), there is plenty of swinging band work by Tenor Saxophonist Budd Johnson and Hines's other colleagues.

RAY CHARLES: LIVE IN CONCERT (ABC-Paramount). This genius of rhythm and blues obviously had a good night at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium with his band, his piano and his Raelets. That hoarse but extraordinarily agile voice lassoes every nuance in sight as he crows I Gotta Woman, pleads Don't Set Me Free and whispers Makin' Whoopee.

CINEMA

CAT BALLOU. This waggish western spurns heroics and drums up unbridled hilarity when Jane Fonda, as a schoolmarm turned outlaw queen, gets mixed up with a couple of no-good gunfighters--both spoofed to perfection by Lee Marvin in a dual role.

THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE. Rex Harrison and Jeanne Moreau, Alain Delon and Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif and Ingrid Bergman, pair up and climb in and out of a 1930-model Phantom II, lending elegance and star power to an episodic movie about roadside amour.

NOBODY WAVED GOODBYE. Two troubled teen-agers (Peter Kastner and Julie Biggs) suffer growing pains in Toronto, and Canadian Writer-Director Don Owen studies their plight with such assurance that the problem play becomes a poem.

IL SUCCESSO. As an ambitious young executive who sheds wife, friends and integrity en route from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the heap, Vittorio Gassman demonstrates how to succeed Italian-style.

IN HARM'S WAY. Director Otto Preminger remembers Pearl Harbor just long enough to launch John Wayne, Patricia Neal and other heroic types into several exciting tales of World War II.

A BOY TEN FEET TALL. A rough-cut diamond thief (Edward G. Robinson) and a wandering British boy (Fergus McClelland) get together for some refreshing runaway adventures in modern Africa.

THE PAWNBROKER. Rod Steiger gives a virtuoso performance as an embittered old Jew whose half life in Spanish Harlem is shaped by the memory of Nazi terrors.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers sometimes swells around an audience like marshmallow cream, but Julie Andrews makes the sticky stuff easy to swallow.

BOOKS

Best Reading

There are several lively thrillers this spring, most already destined for the movies. Among the most beguiling are The French Doll, by Vincent O'Connor, which has a CIA hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teen-ager's frantic parents.

The current best among the rest:

THE VALLEY OF THE LATIN BEAR, by Alexander Lenard. Two years ago, the author charmed his way into literary life with the succes fou of the season--a translation into Latin of Winnie the Pooh. In this book, as charming in its way as Pooh was, Lenard tells of his life as a doctor and pharmacologist in a remote village in southern Brazil and his genially picaresque philosophy of life.

ASSORTED PROSE, by John Updike. An early arrival on the summer-reading shelf, this collection of nostalgic and humorous essays and reportage (including the classic account of Ted Williams' last game at Boston's Fenway Park) gracefully serves to remind the reader that few writers exceed Updike in skill with words.

THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW, by Wilfred Fowler. A novel about the end of British rule in an African state, written in a very different idiom from most modern fiction--terse, laconic, sinewed prose.

TAKEN CARE OF, by Edith Sitwell. Memoirs completed shortly before Dame Edith's death last year that shed harsh new light on a gifted metaphysical poet and a self-dramatist who acted out endless roles for herself with astounding audacity and imagination.

LOCKOUT, by Leon Wolff. The bitter story of the Homestead Strike in 1892, in which workers struck against the lethal working conditions at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill. Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie's second-in-command, retaliated with a hired army of Pinkerton men; in four months, 35 were killed, 400 injured.

DREISER, by W. A. Swanberg. A crude, naive, natural writer, Dreiser was the founder and embodiment of the realistic school of writing that shocked the country in the first decades of this century. His life, like his work, was stubborn, untidy and wayward. Biographer Swanberg (Citizen Hearst) has made the most of it.

I WILL TRY, by Legson Kayira. Determined to get a U.S. education even if he had to walk there, the author, a young African from the Malawi Republic, actually trekked some 800 miles of the way toward fulfilling his dream.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week)

2. The Ambassador, West (2)

3. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (3)

4. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (5)

5. Hotel, Hailey (4)

6. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (7)

7. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton (6)

8. The Source, Michener

9. The Man, Wallace (9)

10. An American Dream, Mailer (10)

NON FICTION

1. Markings, Hammarskjoeld (1)

2. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (3)

3. Queen Victoria, Longford (2)

4. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (7)

5. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (5)

6. The Founding Father, Whalen (4)

7. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg

8. The Italians, Barzini (6)

9. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (8)

10. Fred Allen's Letters, McCarthy (ed.)

* All times E.D.T.

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