Wednesday, July 31
Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Documentary-style drama of how teen-agers are drawn into narcotics addiction. Repeat.
Thursday, Aug. 1
The Twilight Zone (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Drama about the young leader of an American fascist party. Repeat.
The World of Billy Graham (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Film clips of the Graham crusades, with an exploration of the evangelist's personality. The narrator is Alexander Scourby. Repeat.
Friday, Aug. 2
Lincoln and Lee: Readings and Reflections (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m., in Eastern and Central zones only). Actors John Collison and Al Tyler dip into writings and letters to suggest the thoughts of Lincoln as he prepared to attend Ford's Theater and Lee reminiscing on his career from the Mexican War to Appomattox.
Sunday, Aug. 4
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A history of the development of jet aircraft, from the first flown in the U.S. to Dyna-Soar. Filmed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Repeat.
News Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Report on poverty and the Communist threat in northeastern Brazil. Repeat.
Monday, Aug. 5
Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). My Cousin Rachel (1953). Richard Burton appears as a darkly brooding youth who believes that his foster father (John Sutton) has been poisoned by his wife (Olivia de Havil-land). Repeat.
Tuesday, Aug. 6
Focus on America (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A study of the problems of Cuban refugees in Dade County, Fla., and of how the refugees' presence has affected Miami socially and economically.
THEATER
While the straw-hat theater burgeons in the vacation lands, some hardy perennials sweat out the summer in Manhattan, offering air-cooled and (for the most part) . proven values:
On Broadway
She Loves Me is head over heels in love with love. The musical's sweethearts are Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey, son of Raymond. Carol Haney's dance spoofs and the Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock score keep this fairy tale spinning gaily.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. A shattering three-act mar ital explosion that, for savage wit and skill, is unparalleled in the recent annals of the U.S. stage. Arthur Hill and Nancy Kelly play the embattled couple.
Beyond the Fringe. In the finest revue in years, four antic and articulate young Englishmen rip the comic stuffing out of nuclear defense, Shakespearean theatrics, and glib men of God.
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long. Unintentional fatherhood at 60 makes Paul Ford a lumber merchant of most hilariously sorrowful countenance, and turns a one-joke comedy into a nightlong cavalcade of laughs.
Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein, takes a brash, gauche, inflammably youthful would-be actor from a machine factory to some bogus acting-school footlights. The play is sketchy but captivating, and Alan Arkin is a clown's clown.
Best of the longer-running shows: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Stars Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee are still on hand); Mary, Mary (now with Biff McGuire, Patricia Smith, Michael Evans); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (with Jerry Lester replacing Zero Mostel until Aug. 5).
Off Broadway
The Boys from Syracuse. Breeding tells, and this musical is a thoroughbred, originally sired by Shakespeare (Comedy of Errors) out of Plautus. The Rodgers tunes are a lilting delight, the Hart lyrics are a tonic to the ear, and a Most Adorable Cutie award should be bestowed on the bewitchingly gifted Julienne Marie.
To the Water Tower. The Second City troupe is unequaled among U.S. revue groups for its acting skill, imaginative verve, and satiric intrepidity.
CINEMA
A Gathering of Eagles. The best parts of this film about the Strategic Air Command are scenes where SAC itself provides the action. Rock Hudson's rantings as a tyrannical wing commander are too wild even for the blue yonder.
The Nutty Professor. A bit of summer madness that allows Jerry Lewis to play a dual role: the apelike Professor Kelp who drinks a Dr. Jekyll potion and transforms himself into a Dean Martin-like pop singer. Lewis, as usual, goes too far, and the results are funny only half the tune.
The Great Escape. Seventy-six Allied officers accomplish a mass breakout from the Nazis' top-security prison camp. The preparations are shown in almost hypnotic detail, and once the escape is under way, the suspense tightens like pincers. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Donald Pleasence, Richard Attenborough head an excellent all-male cast in one of the season's most exciting pictures.
This Sporting Life. Hulking Richard Harris is a professional rugby player who hits the big time in England but is no hero to his love-starved mistress. A jigsaw puzzle of flashbacks and confused motivation, This Sporting Life was better as a novel.
My Name Is Ivan. This extraordinary Russian film glows with human understanding as it explores the relationship between Ivan, a twelve-year-old spy behind the Nazi lines, and the Russian army officers who are at once his idols, his masters and his equals.
Murder at the Gallop. Margaret Rutherford plays the indomitable Miss Marple again in a hilarious Agatha Christie story that gives her full opportunity to display her bassetlike qualities in tracking down a murderer.
8V2. A surface look at Federico Felhm s newest film reveals an autobiographical plot about a movie director (Marcello Mastroianni) who cannot seem to get started on a new picture; but there is much more to be seen in this monumentally abstract, overwhelmingly pictorial cinematic psychoanalysis.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Night and Silence Who Is Here?, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Some highly diverting goings on among the intellectuals, spivs, careerists and crackpots putting in a well-subsidized academic year at a New England college. The fey Fellows make even more enjoyable sport when it is understood that they are really acting out parts in a prose version of Midsummer Night's Dream in academic dress.
Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. For those who take their campus politics more seriously, this hefty bestseller recounts the maneuverings of a New York socialite to land her husband the president's job in a small Pennsylvania college.
Fly and the Fly-Bottle, by Ved Mehta. These academic controversies are real; the author describes the very small circle of the English linguistic philosophers and adds to his analyses some vivid, funny interviews with the participants.
Mrs. G. B. S., by Janet Dunbar. George Bernard Shaw's love life was strictly postman's knock as one torrid affair after another has been found to be only on paper. But for 45 years he was a testy but loyal husband, she a malleable wife in an oddly successful marriage.
Notebooks 1935-42, by Albert Camus. Aphorisms, definitions, New Year's resolutions, quotations from Rama Krishna, and meditations on Don Quixote--all in these diaries of a very brilliant, very young man.
Spectacular Rogue: Gaston B. Means, by Edwin P. Hoyt. He could have lived in splendor on the take from just one of his spectacular swindles, but for Means the joy of a lie was in living it, so he conned the rich (mostly women) the slow, dramatic way.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (1, last week)
2. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (2)
3. The Glass-Blowers, Du Marnier (3)
4. City of Night, Rechy (4)
5. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (5)
6. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (7)
7. Raise High the Roof Beam, Salinger (6)
8. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (9)
9. The Bedford Incident, Rascovich (8)
10. When the Legends Die, Borland
NONFICTION
1. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (1)
2. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (2)
3. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (3)
4. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (4)
5 Terrible Swift Sword, Catton (5)
6. The Living Sea, Cousteau (10)
7. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (6)
8. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (9)
9. The Feminine Mystique, Friedan (8)
10. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson
* All times E.D.T.
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