Wednesday, July 29

ON BROADWAY TONIGHT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Robert Goulet is the pro among tonight's new talent.

Thursday, July 30

CHOOSING A CANDIDATE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). How the Republicans selected their presidential and vice-presidential candidates, and an advance look at what the Democrats may do.

A WORLD'S FAIR DIARY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC Correspondent Edwin Newman's personal view of the fair. Color.

Friday, July 31

THE BOB HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Dana Wynter, Mel Ferrer and Leo Genn star in an espionage tale of a Soviet agent's theft of British defense secrets and attempted defection to Russia. Color. Repeat.

ON PARADE (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Composer Henry Mancini and his music.

Saturday, August 1

SUMMER PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Comedy about a newly married couple's attempts to set up house while continuing college. Patricia Blair and Jim Hutton are the newlyweds.

MISS UNIVERSE BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). Shapely delegates from the world over display their charms and talents. Arlene Francis, John Daly and Jack Linkletter host the competition, broadcast live from Miami Beach.

Sunday, August 2

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of how the U.S. helped rehabilitate both its enemies and allies after each world war and fed the Russians during the 1921 famine. Participants include Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, secretary to then U.S. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover after World War I, and General Lucius Clay, military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany after World War II.

RECORDS

Virtuosos

STRAVINSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR (Philips). A rare and rewarding encounter between the neoclassicist Stravinsky and the romantic David Oistrakh. Oistrakh gaily sets off short rhythmic explosions in the Toccata and Capriccio and then lets the melodies pour out in the two calm stretches called arias. Conductor Bernard Haitink and the Lamoureux Orchestra are also attuned to every instantaneous change in the musical weather.

BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, PART 1 (2 LPs; Archiv). "Clavier" means keyboard, and no one knows whether these preludes and fugues were written for harpsichord, organ or clavichord. Ralph Kirkpatrick is recording them on the clavichord, preferring its subtlety. Infinitely varied within their small compass, like snowflakes, the pieces have a severe fascination when played on the soft, monochromatic instrument. The late Wanda Landowska chose the harpsichord as her clavier, and her performances (RCA Victor) will be preferred by listeners who demand greater contrast and majesty.

ERNEST BLOCH: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Angel). Bloch was noted for his Jewish music, but in this work he denied having any Hebraic inspiration or intention and referred to the main theme as the "American Indian." The overtones are oriental nevertheless, and the coloring exotic. Yehudi Menuhin, who first played for Bloch when he was six, lends to the work of his late friend a special intensity, as though he were celebrating a mystery.

MOZART: CONCERTO NO. 17 (RCA Victor). Artur Rubinstein has made long series of Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin recordings, but only in his mid-70s is he turning to Mozart, who did not live long enough to grow old. The best modern Mozart interpretation demands more crispness, but Rubinstein's performance has its own serene and sunny logic. He is accompanied by Alfred Wallenstein and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE ORGAN (2 LPs; Columbia). E. Power Biggs goes on a busman's holiday in Germany and Holland, playing with artistry the twelve surviving baroque organs of Master Builder Arp Schnitger (1648-1719). The tones of Schnitger's organs are exceptionally bright and buoyant, wrong for the romantics but wonderful for the music Biggs plays: Bach (including the Dorian Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) and chorale preludes by the modern Berlin composer Ernst Pepping.

DOMENICO SCARLATTI: SONATAS FOR HARPSICHORD, VOL. VIII (Westminster). Musicians call Scarlatti's music "naked" because the performer is so exposed. Fernando Valenti need fear no such exposure, and has recorded more than 400 of Scarlatti's short sonatas. Scarlatti started to write them when he was 53; all but one of these twelve were written in his late 60s, when his earlier keyboard virtuosity made way for more provocative harmonies and modulations. Valenti's interpretation is vigorous, with a flamenco flair now and then, well-suited to Scarlatti's Spanish side.

MUSIC FOR GLASS HARMONICA (Vox). "Glass music" was long in vogue: Gluck performed a "concerto upon 26 drinking glasses, tuned with spring water": Benjamin Franklin devised a popular "armonica," played by rubbing the edges of glass bowls. Bruno Hoffman has created his own 20th century instrument of tuned glasses to revive the literature and plays here works by Mozart and his contemporaries, setting the distant ethereal sounds adrift above flutes and violins.

CINEMA

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS. An Indian girl (Celia Kaye) and her dog cheerfully share an island exile in a children's adventure film rich with charm, intelligence and taste.

THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Under John Huston's shrewd direction, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton unpack their troubles at a seedy Mexican hotel in a drama that stirs the senses, persuades the mind, and sometimes touches the heart.

A SHOT IN THE DARK. Peter Sellers, as Inspector Clouseau of the Surete, rarely gets his man but continually gets laughs while pursuing a seductive murder suspect (Elke Sommer) from corpse to corpse.

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. A young girl stumbles from the path of virtue into a nightmare of brutal Sicilian social codes in Director Pietro Germi's savage tragicomedy, which makes his wildly wicked Divorce--Italian Style seem an exercise in restraint.

ZULU. A band of British redcoats faces 4,000 proud Zulu warriors in a bloody battle film in the grand carry-on-lads tradition of Four Feathers and Gunga Din.

THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. This massive song-and-dancer based on the Broadway musical owes nearly all its buoyancy to a raucous, free-style performance by Debbie Reynolds as the rich mountain girl who yearns to make a splash in Denver society.

MAFIOSO. Sicily again, with Alberto Sordi caught in the insidious toils of the Mafia while Director Alberto Lattuada serves up some small but gloriously garlicky slices of provincial life.

THAT MAN FROM RIO. French Director Philippe de Broca's wacky parody of Hollywood adventure movies propels Jean-Paul Belmondo through a series of wonderfully absurd dangers, smack into the arms of a drugged damsel in distress.

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. In this stylish British comedy, a lowly clerk, Alan Bates, rises in the Establishment by coolly perfecting a program of lies, theft, courtship and homicide.

THE ORGANIZER. Marcello Mastroianni is superb as a scraggly revolutionary in Director Mario Monicelli's vivid, warmly human drama about a 19th century textile strike in Turin.

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The ubiquitous Mastroianni, evenly matched against one of Italy's great natural wonders, Sophia Loren, in three racy modern fables directed by Vittorio De Sica.

THE SERVANT. Promoting country matters in a smart London town house, Dirk Bogarde gives a highly polished performance as a vicious "gentleman's gentleman" who corrupts his master.

BOOKS

Best Reading

SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, by Ken Kesey. The author's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, took place in an insane asylum and proposed the paradox that the only thing more intolerable to lesser men than the success of a good man is his defeat. This second novel, which repeats the theme in a larger setting and at longer length, is less effective for the added dimensions, yet is exuberant and brawling as the Pacific Northwest lumbering country it describes.

THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN, by Louis Auchincloss. A writer of urbane bestselling novels about Manhattan society focuses down on a single individual to produce his best work to date, an analysis of a legendary and absolute ruler of an exclusive New England boys' school.

TWO NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. In these two lightly plotted and wickedly brilliant novellas about a New Year's Eve amorous adventure, and the about-face of a lesbian schoolmistress, Novelist Brophy displays the elegant artifices and tricks of style of a latter-day Ronald Firbank.

TODA RABA, by Nikos Kazantzakis. In this novelistic account of early Communist Russia, the great Greek poet and novelist celebrated the passionate intensity of the Bolsheviks but also underscored the cruelties of the regime. He scorned the intellectuals who expected to find gracious living in Russia and described in abundant detail the exploitation, the starvation, the executions.

THE FAR FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. These poems, written in the last seven years before his death in 1963 of a heart attack, are beautiful in themselves and provide for him an astonishingly true memorial. All the themes of which he was a master reappear--the greenhouse, the root, the plant, and a troubled reaching toward God.

JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. A voluminous, fascinating historical novel, well researched, yet remaining oddly dispassionate and at one remove from the vibrant and youthful Roman emperor whose turbulent 18-month reign marked the last conflict in the Western world between pagan Hellenism and early Christianity.

A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outer-world of fame.

THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carre. Two early detective novels reissued. A Murder of Quality is a sound puzzle about the murder of a science teacher's wife at an English public school. Call for the Dead is a more conventional thriller, concerning a chain of deaths linked to an East German spy ring, interesting as a rough draft for the literate and expert Spy Who Came In from the Cold.

TO AN EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. On a kind of comic Volkswagen odyssey through Brooklyn, four Greenwich Village intellectuals search for the funeral of a compatriot and discover themselves: pathetic, rather pretentious fellows who at heart prefer the cult of Humphrey Bogart to the cult of the Partisan Review.

Best Sellers

FICTION

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

2. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (2)

3. Armageddon, Uris (3)

4. Julian, Vidal (4)

5. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (5)

6. The Spire, Golding (6)

7. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (8)

8. The Group, McCarthy (7)

9. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer

10. The 480, Burdick (9)

NONFICTION

1. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (2)

2. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1)

3. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (4)

4. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (6)

5. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy

6. Harlow, Schulman (5)

7. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver (10)

8. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (7)

9. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (8)

10. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (3)

*All times E.D.T.

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