TELEVISION

Wednesday, April 21

LET'S GO TO THE FAIR (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Opening night at the World's Fair, 1965, featuring the new replica of Winston Churchill's library at Chartwell.

Thursday, April 22

KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ann Blyth stars as a Chinese empress stranded in Panama in the 1850s and pursued by a general who wants to kill her son. Color.

Friday, April 23

TODAY (NBC, 7-9 a.m.). A two-hour report on current trends in interior design.

DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guests include Mary Tyler Moore, Carl Reiner and Andy Griffith. Color.

FDR (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.

Saturday, April 24

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). U.S. Allstars meet a touring Russian basketball team in San Francisco.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Annie Get Your Gun, 1950 film version of the Irving Berlin musical, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel. Color.

Sunday, April 25

THE CHURCH OF THE SEVEN COUNCILS (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). The program celebrates the Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday by taking a look at the situation of the Orthodox Church today.

DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). The Wizard of Oz's Witch of the West, Actress Margaret Hamilton, discusses witchcraft.

PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). George Grizzard stars as Denver Judge Ben B. Lindsey, who fought for greater leniency for juvenile offenders.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Deborah Kerr and Gary Cooper in The Naked Edge (1961).

Monday, April 26

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Thrush plots to assassinate a visiting African dignitary. Repeat.

1945 (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). An examination of the military and political events of the year, from the Battle of Berlin to the founding of the United Nations.

Tuesday, April 27

THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The show celebrates its 25th anniversary on radio and TV with tapes of leading performers of the past few years: Rudolf Nureyev, Joan Sutherland, Harry Belafonte. Color.

THEATER

On Broadway

MAURICE CHEVALIER AT 77 is exchanging gifts with his audience, and on both sides the offering is love. It takes more than indestructible charm and supershowman-ship to hold international theatergoers for more than half a century. It also takes a good heart, and a good heart, as Shakespeare said, is the sun and the moon.

THE ODD COUPLE consists of two de-wived males who share an apartment. This latest entry by Author Neil Simon and Director Mike Nichols is an astutely characterized study of marriages that are made in hell. Actors Art Carney and Walter Matthau manage to make incompatibility hilarious.

LUV. Nichols at work again. Here Author Murray Schisgal spoofs the couch-prone and their letter-perfect recitations of the Freudian catechism. The combined talents of the director and Actors Alan Arkin. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson are eruptively comic.

TINY ALICE. Edward Albee may be the only person who is still worried about who or what Alice is. John Gielgud and Irene Worth may not know, but they provide an exciting evening of theater.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. A feline prostitute (Diana Sands) purrs and claws at an above-sex book clerk (Alan Alda) and proves that if you scratch a prude you sometimes find a man.

Off Broadway

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The campy style of this revue rarely dims the conucopian delight of Cole Porter's lesser-known but invariably worldlywise, witty, and tuneful songs. Kaye Ballard, a supreme clown clowning supremely, heads an irrepressible and attractive cast of five.

JUDITH is more sensualist than saint in Jean Giraudoux's version of the apocryphal tale of the beautiful Jewess who saved Israel by killing an Assyrian general. Rosemary Harris' Judith suggests all the contradictions and fascination of the minx who became a myth.

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE has the tensile strength of Arthur Miller's least pretentious and least self-conscious writing. Robert Duvall plays the doomed longshoreman hero with the uncompromising force of a body blow.

CINEMA

IN HARM'S WAY. Director Otto Preminger steers John Wayne, Patricia Neal and a shipshape supporting cast through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a long series of happenings that follow.

THE OVERCOAT. An insignificant clerk (Roland Bykov) loses his new overcoat and with it his reason for existence in this small, delicate Russian tragedy based on Gogol's classic story.

A BOY TEN FEET TALL. A crackling African adventure story about a stray British orphan (Fergus McClelland) and a fugitive diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) whose hideout is the kind of paradise that all boys dream about.

THE TRAIN. Excitement piles up, quite literally, in Director John Frankenheimer's World War II drama about a trainload of stolen French art, racing toward the German border with Hero Burt Lancaster hot on its wheels.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The Tyrolean Alps get an eye and earful of Julie Andrews, who adds spice to the sugary Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family singers.

DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. In the French countryside. Director Luis Bunuel (Viridiana) mounts a fascinating if inconclusive study of sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder as seen through the eyes of a worldly-wise Parisian maid (Jeanne Moreau).

HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE. Jack Lemmon, Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi brighten some nonsense about a bachelor who wakes up married and rues it.

RED DESERT. The bleak beauty of industrial Ravenna fills Director Michelangelo Antonioni's (L'Avventura) first color film --a provocative, painterly essay on alienation in a young wife (Monica Vitti).

ZORBA THE GREEK. Memorably cast as the hero of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, Anthony Quinn tramples the grapes of wrath into the wine of life; Oscar-Winner Lila Kedrova is superb as a well-worn jade with a mighty thirst.

RECORDS

Awards

On the heels of the motion picture Oscars come the Grammys, 47 awards voted in secret ballot by the singers, conductors, musicians, composers, arrangers, engineers, songwriters, and other members of the recording fraternity who make up the seven-year-old National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Among their choices in non-classics:

Single record of the year: The Girl from Ipanema, with Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto (Verve).

Album of the year: Getz/Gilberto (Verve).

Song of the year: Hello, Dolly! by Composer Jerry Herman.

Best female vocal performance: Barbra Streisand's People (Columbia).

Best male vocal performance: Louis "Armstrong's Hello, Dolly! (Kapp).

Best vocal group performance: The Beatles' Hard Day's Night (United Artists).

Best performance by a chorus: The Swingle Singers Going Baroque (Philips).

Best original movie score: Composers Richard and Robert Sherman's Mary Poppins. The sound track (Buena Vista) was also voted the best recording for children.

Best score from an original cast show album: Funny Girl by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill (Capitol).

Best rock-'n'-roll single: Downtown, sung by Petula Clark (Warner).

Best country and western performance, single and song: Roger Miller's Dang Me (Smash).

Among the classical awards:

Album of the year: Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish") played by the New York Philharmonic (Columbia).

Best orchestral performance: Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 5 (RCA Victor).

Best performance pf soloist with orchestra: Isaac Stern playing Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting (Columbia).

Best performance of an instrumental soloist: Vladimir Horowitz playing Beethoven, Debussy and Chopin (Columbia).

Best opera: Bizet's Carmen, Herbert von Karajan conducting and Leontyne Price singing the gypsy role (RCA Victor).

Best composition by a contemporary composer: Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto (played by Robert Browning on Columbia).

Most promising new recording artist: Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home.

BOOKS

Best Reading

ROBERT BRUCE, by G.W.S. Barrow. This biography of Scotland's greatest hero tells the rousing, gory story of his struggle against England. Careful justice is done to recent research showing that, contrary to previously accepted historical view, Bruce fought for Scotland's glory rather than for the enlargement of his own fief.

MAX, by David Cecil. The story of Max Beerbohm's sunny, uneventful life makes relaxing reading for a more frantic age.

GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. This gloriously old-fashioned tale of a young man's conquest of the Amazon and his own restless nature is a welcome return to romantic adventure as a novelistic form. One of the few successful fiction works so far this year.

LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. Benjamin ("Beast") Butler was a harsh but fair military governor of New Orleans during the Civil War, but Author West emphasizes his importance as a dynamic and remarkably foresighted crusader for Negro rights during the early years of Reconstruction.

ATATUeRK, by Lord Kinross. An acute and gripping biography of the mercurial autocrat who, singlehanded, transformed Turkey from a decadent relic of medieval Byzantium into a modern state.

THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN, by Christina Stead. This singularly raw novel of family life and strife was considered too intemperate when it was first published in 1940. Now, countless case studies later, Miss Stead's distillation of the warfare between neurotic parents rings terrifyingly true.

CASTLE KEEP, by William Eastlake. A medieval castle in the Ardennes is occupied by a decadent count, his child-wife, and a bumbling, boondoggling bunch of G.I.s who find themselves squarely in the path of the German thrust for Bastogne. Interweaving satire, tragedy and gothic mystery, Novelist Eastlake has created a small, surreal masterpiece.

THE FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a wealthy Warsaw family, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best novelists in any language.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week)

2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (4)

3. Hurry Sundown, Gilden (3)

4. Hotel, Hailey (5)

5. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton (2)

6. The Man, Wallace (6)

7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7)

8. The Ambassador, West

9. An American Dream, Mailer

10. The Ordways, Humphrey (9)

NONFICTION

1. Markings, Hammarskjold (1)

2. Queen Victoria, Longford (2)

3. The Founding Father, Whalen (3)

4. The Italians, Barzini (4)

5. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (5)

6. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII

7. Reminiscences, MacArthur (7)

8. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg (10)

9. Catherine the Great, Oldenbourg (9)

10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (6)

*All times E.S.T. through April 24, E.D.T. thereafter.

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