Wednesday, June 10

CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*The current controversy over the citizen's constitutional right to "bear arms."

Thursday, June 11

THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960 (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Emmy Award winner as "program of the year," a television adaptation of Theodore H. White's Pulitzer-prizewinning study of the late President Kennedy's campaign for the presidency. Repeat.

Saturday, June 13

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:14 p.m.). John Huston's Asphalt Jungle, a classic tale of an attempted jewel robbery, starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Sam Jaffe.

Sunday, June 14

DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). The position of the nun in the modern world is examined by a panel of lay Catholics and nuns.

THE BUICK OPEN (ABC, 4:30-6 p.m.). The final 18 holes of the seventh annual Buick Open Golf Tournament.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The 1942 fall of Singapore, called by Winston Churchill "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history."

DU PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A U.S. State Department troubleshooter (Arthur Kennedy) is assigned to a dictator-ruled Latin American country. Color.

Tuesday, June 16

HIGH ADVENTURE WITH LOWELL THOMAS (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Premiere of a summer series featuring rebroadcasts of Lowell-led adventures in remote areas of the world.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES but the theme is thorns in this fine new play by Frank D. Gilroy about the barbed bloodletting that drains away the lives of people who live within the intimacy of the family without being intimate. The three actors, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen and Irene Dailey, are so nearly perfect that they must have been cast under a favorable sign of the zodiac.

HAMLET. Richard Burton is a virile, extraverted Hamlet with no hint of the melancholy self-questioning that stays his killing of the King. However, Burton's fresh phrasing of the play's famed familiar lines lends great luster to the evening.

FUNNY GIRL. A one-woman burst of starfire named Barbra Streisand illuminates the rise, the love life and the heartbreak of another great and funny girl, Fanny Brice.

HIGH SPIRITS. Anyone who can count to two will recognize the source of all the zany good humor that has been injected into this musical version of Noel Cow ard's Blithe Spirit. The blithesome twosome--Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes.

ANY WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis looks as licit as a child with an ice-cream cone, but she is the Other Woman in a hilariously illicit schedule of sex on the one-day-a-week plan.

DYLAN is a brilliant illustration of how an actor of unparalleled skill can invade the mind and personify the temperament of another man, despite a considerable difference in appearance. For a little over two hours, Dylan Thomas lives again in Alec Guinness.

HELLO, DOLLY! is a big, bouncy, brassy, sassy Broadway musical in the best sense of all those mildly intimidating words. Ditto Carol Channing.

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. How to be a charmingly roguish phony is demonstrated by a zany TV writer-producer (Barry Nelson) who spouts triple-tongued, two-timing dialogue.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon, Director Mike Nichols and Stars Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford pack a hamperful of laughs for this comic picnic about two newlyweds and their ups and downs in a six-flight walkup.

Off Broadway

DUTCHMAN, by LeRoi Jones, raises the color question to a new and distinctly terrifying pitch of violence. A sexually aggressive white girl and a sedate but inwardly seething Negro tell each other off in words that finally kill.

THE BLOOD KNOT links two South African half brothers in a twisted, tender but tormenting embrace that involves both races and the human race.

THE TROJAN WOMEN. The keening eloquence of body, mind and speech that graces this superb revival of the Euripidean classic is the unsellable cry of tragedy.

RECORDS

Chorus & Song

VERDI: FOUR SACRED PIECES (Angel). Just before he wrote Falstaff at 79, Verdi composed the Ave Maria and Laudi alia Vergine Maria; he finished the Te Deum and Stabat Mater at 83. Together they make a magnificent and devout peroration to the lifework of a man who was a freethinker in his youth. The Te Deum includes a most urgent prayer, and Verdi asked that the music be buried with him. Carlo Maria Giulini leads the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (240 voices) in a stereophonic recording that matches the soaring splendor of the music.

SCHUBERT: DIE WINTERREISE (Angel; 2 LPs). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the greatest living lieder singer, sings some of Schubert's greatest lieder--a 24-part cycle about a rejected lover who sets out on a winter journey of despair, tantalized by everything he sees and dreams. These were Schubert's own favorites among his songs and were written just a year before his death at 31. Hermann Prey, a younger German baritone of growing renown, has also recorded Die Winterreise (Vox; 2 LPs). His voice is richer, but his interpretation is less subtle: while Fischer-Dieskau suffers a hundred varieties of hurts, Prey suffuses the whole in a single sorrow.

SONGS OF NED ROREM (Columbia) sung by Regina Sarfaty, Phyllis Curtin and others. Since the death of Poulenc, Indiana-born, 40-year-old Ned Rorem is probably the world's best composer of art songs. Here he puts to music the slithering of Theodore Roethke's Snake, the slow flow of Paul Goodman's The Lordly

Hudson, and Elizabeth Bishop's poem about Ezra Pound in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the mentally ill, which becomes a chilling Baedeker of bedlam. Rorem has jettisoned tonality, but his rhythms are generally as even as pulse beats, and he lets voices rise and flow within their nat ural limits.

BACH: CANTATA NO. 51 (Decca). "Make a joyful noise unto God," sings Soprano Judith Raskin as she proceeds to do so, outshining a trumpet obbligato in a series of brilliant salvos. It is a virtuoso performance of some of Bach's most difficult and florid arias, and Thomas Dunn's Festival Orchestra of New York is almost too unobtrusive.

STRAVINSKY: SYMPHONY OF PSALMS (Columbia). "God must not be praised in fast, forte music," Stravinsky once declared, and he holds to deliberate tempos as he conducts the CBC Symphony and the Festival Singers of Toronto in his imposing setting for Psalms 150 and 40. In notes on the upside-down pyramid of fugues and other components of this elaborate musical structure he created in 1930, he explains: "One hopes to worship God with a little art if one has any."

BACH: CANTATA NO. 211 (Nonesuch). Wearing his worldly wig, Bach wrote a miniature operetta called the Coffee Cantata. A father threatens every punishment to save his daughter from vice, but she persists: "If I don't get my coffee three times a day, I'm like a piece of dried-up meat." Coffee, she sings, is "better than a thousand kisses." A gay sprig of baroque music, the cantata is given an airy and stylish performance by the soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra of Radio Berlin.

CINEMA

THAT MAN FROM RIO. Jean-Paul Belmondo ducks poisoned darts, outwits mad scientists, and narrowly escapes a Brazilian crocodile in Director Philippe de Broca's wonderfully wacky distillation of all the adventure movies ever made.

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. In this cheeky, stylish, often mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top, an aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) teaches a lowly British clerk (Alan Bates) how to attain Establishment status.

THE ORGANIZER. Marcello Mastroianni is superb as a scraggly 19th century revolutionary in Director Mario (Big Deal on Madonna Street) Monicelli's timeless, beautifully photographed, warmly human drama about a textile strike in Turin.

THE NIGHT WATCH. In this taut French thriller, five criminals trying to tunnel out of a Paris prison learn that a man can scratch and claw his way to freedom from everything but himself.

BECKET. Church-state conflict turns friends to foes in a glowing screen spectacle based on Jean Anouilh's drama about England's 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton), who dies defying King Henry II (Peter O'Toole).

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. This dry spoof of Ian Fleming's fiction follows Secret Agent 007 (Sean Connery) to Istanbul where wine, women and wrongs are swiftly and impeccably Bonded.

THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT. A pair of teen-age furies pursue Concert Pianist Peter Sellers around Manhattan with hilarious results.

THE SERVANT. All candlelight and gleaming crystal, this smooth essay on class distinction in Britain casts Dirk Bogarde as the malicious valet who trades places with his master.

THE SILENCE. Lightning bolts of Ingmar Bergman's genius illuminate a dark, chilling allegory in which two women and a child travel to a city abounding in lust, loneliness and death.

Best Reading

JEFFERSON AND CIVIL LIBERTIES, by Leonard Levey. The thesis of this well-documented polemic is that Jefferson was not the civil libertarian he has been made out to be. He was not above suspending freedoms when it suited his purpose, and to enforce his unpopular embargo, he, in effect, made war on Americans.

NEGRO POETS: U.S.A., edited by Langston Hughes. These 37 young Negro poets seem to have read their Wallace Stevens and Lowell along with everyone else. The result is highly personal verse, much of it good, more of it promising.

A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. The Nobel-prizewinning author wrote this memoir of his lean years in the Paris of the '20s when he was in his 50s, rich, famous but passe. Feast reveals Hemingway's deadly, deadpan sense of humor, his lingering romanticism, but most of all, the degree to which he fooled himself.

CORDELL HULL, by Julius W. Pratt. Though he was Secretary of State for nearly twelve years, Hull learned curiously little about either statesmanship or psychology. Pratt's is a straightforward biography that shies away from judgments.

THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carre. The first two thrillers by the author of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold have been reissued in one volume. The best one is about British intelligence, has some of the same characters as The Spy, and both are fine whodunits.

EPISODE-REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT INSIDE MY SKULL, by Eric Hodgins. The author of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House recounts his partial recovery from a "cerebrovascular accident" (in layman's terms, a stroke). His wit and skill with words are totally unimpaired.

Best Sellers

FICTION

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

2. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (2)

3. The Group, McCarthy (3)

4. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (5)

5. The Spire, Golding (4)

6. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (7)

7. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (10)

8. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (6)

9. The Martyred, Kim (9)

10. The Venetian Affair, MacInnes

NONFICTION

1. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (2)

2. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (3)

3. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (4)

4. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (1)

5. The Naked Society, Packard (5)

6. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (6)

7. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (7)

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

9. In His Own Write, Lennon (9)

10. When the Cheering Stopped, Smith (10)

* All times E.D.T.

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