TELEVISION

Wednesday, May 20 SUSPENSE (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).* Gary Merrill as a Florida game warden tracks down and captures two murderers with his bare hands--and nature lore.

Thursday, May 21

BIG BROTHER IS LISTENING (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A special on the invasion of privacy an ordinary citizen may be subjected to, with commentary by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Writer Vance Packard (The Naked Society) and others.

Friday, May 22

THE GREAT DIVIDE: CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE BILL (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A special featuring interviews with Bobby Kennedy, Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, Senators Kuchel, Stennis and Dirksen, representatives of the N.A.A.C.P., CORE, the National Urban League, etc.

Saturday, May 23

ABC's WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Grand Prix of Monaco with Prince Rainier and Princess Grace handing out awards, plus National Lumberjack championships from Wisconsin.

Sunday, May 24

DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). A comedy in which six actors play 26 different roles.

SUNDAY (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). A special program devoted entirely to the remodeled and about-to-reopen Museum of Modern Art, narrated by Aline Saarinen and featuring films of interviews with Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti and Stuart Davis in their homes or studios.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Eyewitness reports on the battle for the Anzio beachhead in World War II. Repeat.

Monday, May 25

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Films and stars of the '30s.

EMMY AWARDS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). E. G. Marshall will host the New York segments, broadcast live from the World's Fair; Joey Bishop will hold up the Hollywood end, from the Palladium.

THEATER

On Broadway

HAMLET. Although Richard Burton as Hamlet and Hume Cronyn as Polonius burnish all the richness of language, wit and humor of the play, this revival, and specifically Burton's Hamlet, lacks the burning passion, the mind-tossed anguish, the self-divided will that Hamlet must have to be a true prince of tragedy.

HIGH SPIRITS. As a spirit brought back to haunt her husband by means of a slapstick seance conducted by mad Bea Lillie, impish Tammy Grimes is about as ghostly grey as a rainbow.

FUNNY GIRL shines in the refracted light of the most brilliant new star to rise over Broadway in years, Barbra Streisand.

ANY WEDNESDAY. Without even the help of her closetful of balloons, Sandy Dennis ascends from playmate to helpmate in two acts.

DYLAN. Alec Guinness probes the special hell in which Dylan Thomas found himself. His performance is moody, taut with rage and sometimes bright with humor.

HELLO, DOLLY! Part of this musical's nostalgic appeal lies in its evocative Oliver Smith backdrops of little old New York, part lies in its hissable boss-villain (David Burns) whom Dolly finds kissable. Most of it lies in the skirt-swishing charm of Carol Channing as Dolly.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon's deft quips punctuate this early-marital farce with enough humor to spare for a zany subplot involving a mother-in-law and a continental charmer (he thinks).

Off Broadway

DUTCHMAN, by LeRoi Jones. In a New York subway car, a white girl who is a twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed cliches and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury.

THE BLOOD KNOT. Two halfbrothers, one light and one dark, act out in miniature the torment of being a racial outcast in present-day South Africa. Playwright Atholl Fugard writes with a tenderness, poignance and understanding that crosses all color lines.

THE TROJAN WOMEN, winner of a special citation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle, is a powerful, tormenting image of humans bearing the unbearable.

RECORDS

Jazz DIZZY GILLESPIE & THE DOUBLE SIX OF PARIS (Philips) soar from high spot to high spot, from Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be to Ow. Dizzy does blithe acrobatics with his trumpet, then stands aside for the legendary expatriates Bud Powell and Kenny Clark to shine briefly on piano and drums. In the meanwhile, the Double Six, a sextet of jazz singers, chime in like an instrumental combo, and Mimi Perrin, who has an extraordinarily agile voice, even takes on a couple of solos meant for Charlie Parker's horn.

GEORGE RUSSELL SEXTET: THE OUTER VIEW (Riverside). These six do surgery on only five songs and have You Are My Sunshine stretched out on the operating table for twelve minutes. The theme, of course, is only a starter for Don Ellis' questing trumpet, Paul Plummer's poetic tenor sax and Composer-Arranger Russell's contemplative piano. They cut the melody into ribbons that swirl together in unlikely harmonies, but there is a cool logic and distant beauty all the same.

THELONIOUS MONK: BIG BAND AND QUARTET IN CONCERT (Columbia). Seven of the pieces Thelonious played at his Philharmonic Hall debut last winter (TIME cover, Feb. 28). The band arrangements by Composer Hall Overton add more than variety; they provide a new and striking dimension for Monk's high-styled melodies. Monk and his men--particularly Phil Woods on alto sax and Charlie Rouse on tenor--rose to the challenge of the big audience and played to make memories. The recording catches the excitement.

ART FARMER QUARTET: INTERACTION (Atlantic). Fluegelhorn, anyone? Ex-trumpeter Farmer is using the soft, sweet monster in his new quartet, and to further melt the sound, he has replaced the piano with a guitar (played by Jim Hall). The melodic lines in Embraceable You are several yards long and barely kept aloft by a faint little beat. An album for those who take their jazz with plenty of cream and sugar.

BENNY GOODMAN QUARTET: TOGETHER AGAIN (RCA Victor). A lot has happened both in and out of jazz since the salad days of Goodman, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson. But here they are, sounding much the same 25 years later. Goodman fans will treasure new versions of Runnin' Wild, Somebody Loves Me, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good. But something is missing--a sense of discovery. Perhaps the trouble is that the pieces sound light and facile, like the right thing said once too often.

JUNIOR MANCE: GET READY, SET, JUMP!!! (Capitol). Julian Clifford Mance Jr. spends little time brooding at the piano. He prefers to swing along triumphantly with Drummer Shelly Manne and a small army of trumpets and trombones full of moxie right behind him. September Song does not respond to their ebullient treatment, but Running Upstairs and Jubilation rightly sizzle.

CINEMA

THE ORGANIZER stars Marcello Mastroianni, forcefully demonstrating his remarkable versatility as a Socialist Savonarola who leads Turin textile workers in a strike that fails.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Pouris and hired assassins play it mostly for laughs when Sean Connery arrives in Istanbul as Ian Fleming's Bond bombshell, Secret Agent 007.

THE GRAND OLYMPICS. A classic sports-tacular. this Italian-made color documentary dazzlingly synthesizes the glory that was Rome's during the summer Olympiad of 1960.

THE NIGHT WATCH. This tough, perceptive French thriller follows five jailbirds along an underground escape route and unearths a bitter tale of honor among dishonest men.

BECKET. Richard Burton is England's 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury, Peter O'Toole is King Henry II--and both bring grandeur to a stunning, cerebral film spectacle based on the drama by Jean Anouilh.

THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT. Teen-Agers Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth racket about Manhattan as a pair of metro-gnomes in hilarious pursuit of Peter Sellers, a playboy pianist with a yen for footloose matrons.

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. In three yeasty folk tales directed by Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren is a whole Italian street scene rolled into one woman. Marcello Mastroianni is head of the block.

BOOKS

Best Reading

GAUGUIN, by Henri Perruchot. More than any other painter in history, Gauguin's life has been documented, dissected and glamorized, and yet this book is still a substantial contribution to the body of work about him. Perruchot's achievement is his understanding of Gauguin's drives and motives, set down without sentimentality or bravura.

WAITING FOR THE END, by Leslie Fiedler. In one of the most infuriatingly quotable books of the year, the angry professor finds signs of the apocalypse in homosexuality, pseudo-Zen, youth cults, U.S. Presidents, and most of all in current fiction. The only glimmer of hope Fiedler can find is the excellent state of U.S. poetry; he might have added criticism, of which he is one of the brightest younger lights.

OLD ACQUAINTANCE, by David Stacton. A light, worldly novel that tells of old friendship and young love on the Riviera, as it might have been told by Bemelmans with added monologues by Oscar Wilde.

A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Looking back 30 years later at Paris and himself on the threshold of fame, Hemingway re-explored--and perhaps re-invented--his friendships with established writers (Pound, Stein, Ford, Joyce), particularly his ambiguous relation to the already successful young Scott Fitzgerald.

PEDRO MARTINEZ, by Oscar Lewis. Anthropologist Lewis follows his brilliant tape-recorded pastiche, The Children of Sanchez, with the story of an old Mexican peasant whose passion and native eloquence were spent on aborted uprisings and hopeless land-reform politics.

THE SPIRE, by William Golding. In this medieval parable a saintly, obsessed canon orders a huge stone spire to be built atop his fragile cathedral, only to realize at last that his monument was not to God's glory.

KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, by Shirley Ann Grau. Though miscegenation is the theme of this deceptively artless novel, it has no pejorative connotations for a large Louisiana clan until the heroine's racist husband makes a violent entry into politics.

EPISODE-REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT INSIDE MY SKULL, by Eric Hodgins. The author of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House tells what it was like to rebuild his life after a "cerebrovascular accident" (in layman's terms, a stroke) left him paralyzed four years ago. Hodgins wrote this book with ballpoint pens (he can no longer use a typewriter), but it has Mr. Blandings' old wit and wordcraft.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week)

2. The Group, McCarthy (2)

3. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (3)

4. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (8)

5. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (6)

6. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (4)

7. The Deputy, Hochhuth (5)

8. The Venetian Affair, MacInnes (9)

9. The Martyred, Kim (7)

10. The Spire, Golding

NONFICTION

1. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (1)

2. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (2)

3. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (3)

4. The Naked Society, Packard (4)

5. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (7)

6. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway

7. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (5)

8. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (6)

9. When the Cheering Stopped, Smith (8)

10. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (10)

*All times E.D.T.

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