Wednesday June 19

MR. 100,000 VOLTS-GILBERT BECAUD (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.).* Sizzling Frenchman Becaud, who often composes his own songs, sings his recent splash hit, Sound and Sea, in this international variety show. Also featured: Singers Joao Gilberto (Brazil) and Lill Lindfors (Sweden).

Thursday, June 20

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Call Me Bwana (1963). Bob Hope drops in the rough of an African jungle with Golf Champ Arnold Palmer. Anita Ekberg helps them caddie along.

DEAN MARTIN PRESENTS THE GOLDDIGGERS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Everybody, from Shirley Temple to Bonnie and Clyde, not to mention the Golddigger singing-and-dancing lovelies, is represented in this new variety series based on tunes and events of the '30s. Comedian Paul Lynde guest-stars, Joey Heatherton and Frank Sinatra Jr. cohost. Premiere.

Friday, June 21

THE NEW AMERICAN CATHOLIC (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The network's news cameras range far and wide, from an underground "action" Mass in Washington, D.C., to Oklahoma, where a group of former Benedictine nuns have transformed themselves into "Sisters for Christian Service," in this program delineating the new mood and trends of Catholicism in America. Bishop James Shannon of Minneapolis speaks for the church; other views are expressed by a variety of clergymen.

Saturday, June 22

CANADIAN OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (CBS, 4-6 p.m.). (Concluding on Sunday, same time.) The five finishing holes of the last two days of the $125,000 Canadian Open Golf Tournament, at the St. George Golf and Country Club, Toronto. Defending champion is Billy Casper.

Sunday, June 23

THE SUMMER BROTHERS SMOTHERS SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Doleful Comedian Pat Paulsen joins Singer Glen Campbell in a song-and-comedy hour in which the Brothers themselves appear as guests along with Nancy Sinatra and Joey Bishop.

Monday, June 24

THE CITIES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a three-part series (last two on June 25 and 26), Walter Cronkite reports on the urban crisis. In the first program, the attrition of a city is examined; the second focuses on the "Crisis in Black and White" and the third on ways to improve cities of today and in the future.

THEATER

On Broadway

JOE EGG. When two persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exhibit stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but, in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Beckoned to Elsinore they know not why, Tom Stoppard's neo-Elizabethan protagonists wander through historical events looking for significance and through their lives in search of identity. John Wood, Brian Murray and Paul Hecht share with the audience each nuance of meaning, each streak of mordant wit.

Off Broadway

MUZEEKA is a fable, contemporary in sensibility, modern in metaphor, and haunting in its humor. John Guare mixes whimsy and horror as his hero trips on the way to his destiny, lands first in the suburbs and finally in Viet Nam.

THE MEMORANDUM. While amusing, this fantasy is crossed with currents of chilling reality, in describing a bureaucracy after the introduction of an artificial language. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel's social satire is intelligently mounted at Joseph Papp's Public Theater.

MUSIC

Despite the threat of a proposed travel tax, more than a million Americans have applied for passports to go abroad this year. Those bound for summertime Europe will find a melodious welcome just about anyplace they decide to visit. Some selected samples:

BATH FESTIVAL (June 19-29), 106 miles west of London, is guided by Yehudi Menuhin through a chamber and symphonic series that includes Mozart's one-act opera, The Impresario, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and a program of Viennese waltzes.

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 18-Sept. 7) this year explores the compositions of Franz Schubert and Benjamin Britten. A concert version of Schubert's rarely heard opera, Alfonso und Estrella, is scheduled for Sept. 7, following a virtual Who's Who among artists, orchestras and opera companies in a generally classics-oriented program.

GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL (May 3-Aug. 4) combines snob appeal with top-notch opera. New productions of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Mozart's Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail spell Cavalli's L'Ormindo and Donizetti's Anna Bolena.

HOLLAND FESTIVAL (June 15-July 9) takes place in four Dutch cities. Its imaginative programming includes four concerts devoted entirely to works of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern, played by The Hague Residentie Orchestra under Pierre Boulez in Scheveningen; three Debussy cycles in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. More conventional fare by the Concertgebouw Orchestra; dance and opera (from Rameau's Platee to Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron) is also offered.

BAYREUTH (July 25-Aug. 28) offers a new production by Wolfgang Wagner of Die Meistersinger under Karl Boehm's baton, a Ring cycle conducted by Lorin Maazel, Parsifal under Pierre Boulez's musical direction, plus a Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde.

MUNICH (June 22 to Aug. 10) is one continuous Fest, starting with Karl Richter's Bach Festival (June 22-30) through chamber music at Nymphenburg Palace (July 6-25) to the Bayerische Staatsoper's ambitious selection of operas ranging from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice to Berg's Lulu, via a sprinkling of operas by Munich's own Richard Strauss (July 16-Aug. 10).

LUCERNE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 14-Sept. 8) is long on notable artists (Artur Rubinstein, Herbert von Karajan, William Steinberg, Isaac Stern) and short on program ideas. Still, the air is crisp and the execution usually exemplary at the picturesque lakeside resort.

TOURAINE FESTIVAL (June 28-July 5), Meslay, central France, held in a barn built by monks in 1220, has scheduled performances by Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Soprano Evelyn Lear and her husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart.

MENTON (Aug. 1-24) on the French Riviera. Chamber music in the square of St. Michel's Church pleases the ear while a breathtaking view of the port and nearby lemon groves fascinates the eye.

SPOLETO (June 27-July 14). The eleventh season of the Festival of Two Worlds in the Umbrian hills opens with a new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde staged by Gian Carlo Menotti, whose approach to the opera is "romantic," and who intends to stress its "erotic and youthful theme." Other highlights: noon chamber music, a triple bill of Avant-Garde Composer Luciano Berio's Laborintus II, Goffredo Petrassi's Estri and Henry Pousseur's Response.

SALZBURG (July 26-Aug. 30). The usual heavy dose of Mozart, seasoned with the three Bs, and occasionally spiced with early 20th century compositions is the diet prepared by such expert chefs as the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic under George Szell, and star soloists.

DUBROVNIK (July 10-Aug. 25). The historic Adriatic seaport offers an array of opera, dance and music that includes the Moscow Philharmonic, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, London's Amadeus Quartet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Belgrade Philharmonic.

CINEMA

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick's stunning film, which defines man's past and describes his future, uses some of the most mind-bending visual effects in motion-picture history.

PETULIA. The city of San Francisco is clearly the star of this whimsical, sometimes bitter Richard Lester film about the switched-on love affair of a middle-aged doctor (George C. Scott) and a kooky young wife (Julie Christie).

LES CARABINIERS. Blending some documentary footage with his own, not altogether somber view of war, Director Jean-Luc Godard comes up with an artful portrait of man in combat that may be his best film since Breathless.

THE FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A stark, symbolic tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, raised to a high level of creative cinema by the measured skill of Writer-Director Zbynek Brynych.

BELLE DE JOUR. Luis Bunuel, the aging Spanish director, fills this baroque piece of pornography about the obsessive fantasies of a young wife (Catherine Deneuve) with some of his most elegant fetishist jokes and anticlerical broadsides.

THE ODD COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway hit about an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transferred to the screen virtually intact, although Actor Matthau's comic genius more than compensates for the static mise en scene.

BOOKS

Best Reading

ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. A jaunty account of the taming of a poet, demonstrating with scurrilous charm that an artist is a man who expresses for all men their unbuttoned true selves.

TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. High camp comes artfully close to original Americana in this yarn of a sassy 14-year-old Arkansan heroine who avenged the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s.

RED SKY AT MORNING, by Richard Bradford. The theme is familiar--an adolescent's search for manhood--but the telling, in this first novel, is tender and humorous.

FORBIDDEN COLORS, by Yukio Mishima. A diabolic story of a staggeringly handsome young homosexual who systematically attracts and frustrates women, cunningly told by an author who is Japan's answer to Papa-san Hemingway.

TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC LEFT, by Michael Harrington. The political evangelist who roused the conscience of the U.S. on behalf of the poor (The Other America) here turns to proposals for reshaping American political and economic life through the creation of a new party imbued with social concern. Some of his vision is overly visionary, but there can be no doubting the author's passionate concern.

KING, QUEEN, KNAVE by Vladimir Nabokov. The eternal love triangle gets some witty twists in this first English-language edition of a novel written in 1928, when the Russian-born prose master was a 28-year-old emigre living in Berlin.

THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, by Norman Mailer. With unabashed language and unblushing candor, the author delineates his own mock-heroic role during last fall's peace assault on the Pentagon.

LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The madly eccentric life and odd times of the author of Eminent Victorians, overwhelmingly documented in 1,229 improbably fascinating pages.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Airport, Hailey (2 last week)

2. Couples, Updike (1)

3. Myra Breckinridge, Vidal (3)

4. Topaz, Uris (4)

5. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (5)

6. Vanished, Knebel (6)

7. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (7)

8. Tune, Durrell

9. Christy, Marshall (9)

10. The Tower of Babel, West (10)

NONFICTION

1. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (2)

2. Iberia, Michener (7)

3. The Naked Ape, Morris (1)

4. The Right People, Birmingham (3)

5. Our Crowd, Birmingham (6)

6. The Center, Alsop

7. The French Chef Cookbook, Child (4)

8. The Double Helix, Watson (5)

9. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (8)

10. Gipsy Moth Circles the World, Chichester (9)

* All times E.D.T.

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