TELEVISION

Wednesday, June 1

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*Irate Manhattan citizens form a vigilante committee to fight a series of robberies and muggings in elevators. Their attempts to relive the Old West on the Upper East Side do not give Chief Assistant District Attorney Robert Ryan a lift.

Thursday, June 2

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Experiment in Terror has Bank Teller Lee Remick practically cashiered by a psychopathic embezzler, but G-Man Glenn Ford withdraws her.

Friday, June 3

LONDON PALLADIUM SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). No. 2 in a series of six shows in the music hall. Kate Smith is a moony mountain of an M.C.

COURT MARTIAL (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Joan Hackett, perhaps nostalgic for the good old days of The Defenders and The Nurses, guest-stars as an Army nurse involved in a murder trial.

AGES OF MAN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Part 1 of Sir John Gielgud's Shakespeare.

Saturday, June 4

THE BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The 98th running of the racing classic, third event in the Triple Crown, live from Aqueduct Race Track, Ozone Park, N.Y.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Gymnastics Championships in Bartlesville, Okla.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:25 p.m.). Please Don't Eat the Daisies, the winceable film version of Jean Kerr's bestselling book about elf-life in Larchmont. Doris Day and David Niven manage to turn sweetness and light to Sucaryl and glare.

Sunday, June 5

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). "The Year of the Rookie," first of a series of 15 shows featuring highlights of the past National Football League season. Premiere.

RED CHINA: YEAR OF THE GUN? (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A documentary that includes color film footage recently shot in China and interviews with assorted China experts. Repeat.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "What a Way to Run a Railroad," a report on new superspeed trains around the world. Repeat.

THE AGE OF KENNEDY (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Part 2 of NBC's White Paper covers the years in the White House.

Monday, June 6

THE KRAFT SUMMER MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Singer John Davidson is host of this new musical-variety series which will include, as regulars, Comedian George Carlin, Singers Jackie and Gayle, the Five King Cousins and the Lively Set. Premiere.

THE AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).

U.N.C.L.E. may end up crying aunt as Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his partner Mrs. Peel (Diana Rigg) kick up all kinds of heels on this fine British import series.

Tuesday, June 7

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Anti-Americans," an attempt to measure the image again, this time using Mexico, Thailand, Russia and England as standard-branders.

THEATER On Broadway

IVANOV is the first of the Chekhovian unheroic heroes, who fall not from grace to sin but from enthusiasm to ennui, who do not so much lose their souls as their spirit. John Gielgud's listless acting and direction unfortunately seem infected with a similar malaise.

MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! With a finger's twitch, an eye's mischief, a tongue's tart wit, a mind's unblinking sagacity, Hal Holbrook evokes the memorable presence of America's fabled humorist.

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! is the affecting portrait of a young Irish emigre struggling to free himself from the womb before he can enter the jet. Brian Friel paints him with sensitive shadings and honest brush strokes.

SWEET CHARITY. Dancer Gwen Verdon once more erupts like a crimson volcano on the U.S. musical stage, and Bob Fosse's choreography sizzles with sly social comment, bubbles with inventive originality. Neil Simon's book, alas, is as dry and lifeless as a cinder cone.

CACTUS FLOWER. If love is a delicate blossom in the desert of life, the French may claim to be the most happy of horticulturists. This romantic comedy, expertly transplanted from the banks of the Seine by Abe Burrows, cleverly tramples the grapes of mirth.

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU. George Kaufman and Moss Hart's 30-year-old tour de farce is a riotous reminder that the word "absurd" may mean wacky, not world-weary, and that humor, after all, may still be amusing rather than merely bruising.

RECORDS

Jazz & Blues

LOU RAWLS LIVE! (Capitol). Rawls is live all right. A recent arrival on the bestseller charts, the 26-year-old Chicago-born soul singer has a dynamic, lickety-split delivery, a well-trained voice and a wry sense of humor. He tears into Stormy Monday and St. James Infirmary on the double, adds a peculiar intensity even to such dreamy numbers as The Shadow of Your Smile.

ARTHUR PRYSOCK/COUNT BASIE (Verve). Arthur Prysock, after several decades, is coming into his own as a husky, deep-voiced, convincing singer of the blues. Count Basic provides slow and swinging accompaniments, presiding over the piano while sax, trumpet and trombone take turns describing all sorts of fascinating loops and curlicues around mellow ballads such as Ain't No Use and Don't Go to Strangers.

ROD LEVITT, in Solid Ground (RCA Victor), toots his trombone at the head of a lively seven-man band in a parade of his own compositions. There's a holiday undercurrent even in nostalgic numbers like Morning in Montevideo and crackling exuberance in / Wanna Stomp and Levittown. The band irreverently slices Rio Rita into a jazzy jigsaw puzzle.

JIMMY SMITH. Got My Mojo Workin' (Verve) is the No. 1 jazz organist's latest hit. With his steady staccato tattoo, he chops some chips of rock (I Can't Get No Satisfaction and 1-2-3) and cuts a mighty oak of jazz (C Jam Blues). Smith is also a singer in the grunt-'n'-growl tradition.

ELLA FITZGERALD, with assured artistry, sings ten songs by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn--half dreamy (Passion Flower and Azure), half wide-awake (the scatting Cotton Tail and What Am I Here For?). For the first side, the Duke's men create a sleepy, dusky background, for the second, a pulsing neon midnight. The album title: Ella at Duke's Place (Verve).

HUGH MASEKELA alternates smoldering African folk singing with blazing jazz trumpeting in his first album, The Americanization of Ooga Booga (MGM). He has a good rhythm section, and his trumpet, while fast and facile, is also strong and deep-voiced. His tutor in folk singing is an expert: his exwife, Miriam Makeba.

THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET engages in what they call a Jazz Dialogue (Atlantic) with the All-Star Jazz Band. It turns into a one-sided argument, however, for the band talks down the quartet. The delicate tracing of Milt Jackson's vibes and John Lewis' piano disappears into a lush and sometimes too lax setting for pieces like Django and Animal Dance.

CINEMA

LE BONHEUR. A fascinating Gallic fable of infidelity, drenched with springtime color and quite dispassionate in its point of view toward a handsome young carpenter who rather casually betrays his beloved first wife but finds equal happiness with her successor.

BORN FREE. How a tamed beast learns to survive in the wilderness is recalled in an enthralling adventure film based on Joy Adamson's bestseller about her life with Elsa the lioness--superbly photographed on location in Kenya.

LES BONNES FEMMES. All the humor, horror and futility in the lives of four commonplace Parisian shopgirls fill a downbeat but poignant tale by French Director Claude Chabrol (The Cousins).

MORGAN! David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave brighten a black British comedy in which a fey young artist is slowly destroyed by his emotional dependence on Karl Marx, King Kong and his former wife.

HARPER. A millionaire disappears, and Private Eye Paul Newman beats the perfumed shrubbery of Southern California to find him. Among the shady ladybirds he flushes in passing are Julie Harris, Lauren Bacall and Shelley Winters.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. With dialogue taken wholly from Scripture, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist, stirringly portrays Christ's journey to Calvary as the pilgrimage of a saintly social agitator.

SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. The vestiges of British influence in India color a wry, graceful comedy about a young English actress (Felicity Kendal) who tours the provinces doing Shakespeare and finds her real-life romantic role more difficult to play.

THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET. This rueful, Oscar-winning tragedy about the friendship between an Aryan carpenter (Josef Kroner) and an old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska) in Nazi-dominated Czechoslovakia incisively depicts the ravages of war on one man's conscience.

DEAR JOHN. Sex precedes love for a lusty sea captain (Jarl Kulle) and a lonely waitress (Christina Schollin) in a memorable film by Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren.

BOOKS

Best Reading

MEMOIRS 1945-53, by Konrad Adenauer. In the first of two autobiographical installments, der Alte reviews the years from World War II to the Administration of Harry Truman, whom Adenauer deeply respected.

IN MY FATHER'S COURT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Boyhood years in a Polish rabbi's household are evoked in energetic and engaging detail by Yiddish Writer Singer, now recognized as one of the great contemporary novelists.

A GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. Sex and symbolism are intimately interwoven in this funny fable about a North Carolina farm boy in pursuit of his manhood.

THE LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. On Ryan's canvas, the fall of Berlin is painted with meticulous, methodical and frequently fascinating detail.

EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette; edited by Robert Phelps. Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist that the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom.

THE DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. Burgess' late-blooming agility as a humorist is evident in this 1960 novel, just now reaching the U.S. in the wake of his growing reputation.

1066: THE STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. Nine centuries ago, the Battle of Hastings cost King Harold II of England his kingdom and his life--a price, as Author Butler suggests in this excellent first book, that may have been dearer than England knew.

PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. An account of Hemingway's saddest years, told by a friend who shared them.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)

2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)

3. The Source, Michener (4)

4. The Double Image, Machines (3)

5. The Embezzler, Auchincloss (5)

6. Tell No Man, St. Johns (7)

7. Those Who Love, Stone (8)

8. Menfreya in the Morning, Holt (9) 9. Columbella, Whitney 10. No One Hears But Him, Caldwell

NONFICTION 1. The Last Battle, Ryan (1)

2. In Cold Blood, Capote (2)

3. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (3)

4. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (7)

5. Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader (10)

6. Games People Play, Berne (6)

7. The Last 100 Days, Toland (4)

8. The Proud Tower, Tuchman (5)

9. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey

10. A Thousand Days, Schlesinger (8)

-All times E.D.T.

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