TELEVISION

Wednesday, June 16

ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "The American Dream: Class of '65." As June graduates take their leave, colleges ponder larger classes to follow. Newscaster Peter Jennings explores the situation.

Thursday, June 17

THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Rerun of an episode in which the Prestons take on a libel suit for a blacklisted movie actor (Jack Klugman).

Friday, June 18

EVERYBODY'S GOT A SYSTEM (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A special program on the gaming urge that infects all gamblers, from the penny-ante poker player to the bet-a-million stockbroker. Terry-Thomas narrates the documentary, which looks at a British betting shop, Aqueduct race track and Las Vegas.

Saturday, June 19

THE LE MANS GRAND PRIX (ABC, 10:30-11:30 a.m.). The opening laps of the Le Mans Grand Prix road race, live from Europe via Early Bird satellite, with the finish to be televised 24 hours later.

NATIONAL OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Third-round play at St. Louis' Bellerive Country Club. Fourth round on Sunday. Color.

FANFARE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Al Hirt's hard, sharp trumpet blows a refreshing note into the minor key of summer reruns as he stars in the first of 13 hot-month shows, with Guests Eydie Gorme and Erroll Garner making cool music. Premiere.

Sunday, June 20

THE LE MANS GRAND PRIX OF ENDURANCE (ABC, 10:30-11:30 a.m.). Last laps.

DISCOVERY (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). Newsreels and vignettes from days "When Mommy and Daddy Were Young"; Sinatra at the Paramount, The Shadow on radio, a world war raging.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Lenin and Trotsky" studies the early close relationship and the later break between the two archplotters of the Russian Revolution.

THE HOLLOW CROWN-PART II (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Four Royal Shakespeare Company players recite poetry, speeches and letters, both humorous and poignant, by or about British monarchs, from Charles II to Queen Victoria.

Tuesday, June 22

HOLLYWOOD TALENT SCOUTS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A musical and comedy variety series serving as a showcase for fresh talent with ever-ready Art Linkletter in the host's post. Premiere.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE GLASS MENAGERIE. This revival of Tennessee Williams' 20-year-old classic, while miscast, is a jewel in Broadway's currently tarnished crown.

HALF A SIXPENCE skims along as lightly as a kite, kept in motion by the airy charm of cockney Song-and-Dance-Man Tommy Steele. Kipps, the H. G. Wells story of a rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches hero, provides the plot for this pleasant musical.

THE ODD COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are supremely funny as a mismatched pair of shell-shocked husbands beating a retreat from the frays of marriage. Living together is enough to send them back into the thick of the battle.

LUV. Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin play three wildly amusing neurotics whose feet never quite touch the ground because their minds never get off the psychiatrist's couch.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Diana Sands, as a disarming but determined prostitute, claws and purrs her way into the once serene life of a defenseless book clerk (Alan Alda).

Off Broadway

SQUARE IN THE EYE. Playwright Jack Gelber gives a satirical spin to the contemporary kaleidoscope of marriage, egos, careerism, the cults of surgery and psychoanalysis, and the cosmeticians of the death industry. The play is suffused with moral pathos, even while it is being abrasively funny.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED is a romp through the lighter side of life during the crash, the Depression and World War II. The Porter wit and comic vision prove there was indeed a lighter side.

RECORDS

Orchestral

BRUCKNER: FOURTH SYMPHONY (Angel). Otto Klemperer's approach to Bruckner's "Romantic" symphony is majestic but brisk, brassy and free of the tedious, otherworldly vapors that sometimes surround the innocent mystic's lengthy work. This is one of six recordings with London's Philharmonia Orchestra (including symphonies by Stravinsky, Dvorak and Mozart) that celebrate Klemperer's 80th birthday.

BRAHMS: SYMPHONIES COMPLETE (Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs). Herbert von Karajan's greatest strength lies in the romantic repertory, and one would expect an outstanding set of performances, especially following his recent highly successful recording of the nine Beethoven symphonies. The Berlin Philharmonic sounds as lustrous as ever, and there are wonderful, broad, sensuous swells of melody. But Von Karajan too often masks structure with sonority, allows the pulse to waver and then summons portentous climaxes that turn out to be no more substantial than giant thunderheads with more noise than content.

RAVEL: MA MERE L'OYE (Philips). The late Pierre Monteux was 88 when he recorded this Mother Goose ballet suite with the London Symphony Orchestra, creating crystalline tableaux of sleeping princesses and lost children. Monteux also conducts the tilted, spinning Valse and seductive, syncopated Bolero with both French esprit and body English.

KODALY: HARY JANOS SUITE (London). These high-spirited orchestral sketches are based on an opera celebrating the exploits of Hary Janos, the Magyar Baron Munchausen. The musical climax is Hary's singlehanded defeat of Napoleon, an event that will not be found in the history books. Hungarian Conductor Istvan Kertesz extracts bright colors from the London Symphony Orchestra, augmented by a cymbalum, a Hungarian dulcimer. The disk also offers the dazzling Dances of Galanta, named for the little town where Kodaly as a boy listened to the gypsies play.

ROGER SESSIONS: SUITE FROM "THE BLACK MASKERS" (Mercury). The 1923 music has a weird and unsettling effect, befitting the Leonid Andreyev drama for which it was written; the black maskers of the title are supposed to be the powerful but unfathomable forces that act on man's soul. Three other short, appealing works by Americans (Walter Piston, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness) are played by Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra.

RAVEL: DAPHNIS AND CHLOE, SUITE NO. 2, and ROUSSEL: BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, SUITE NO. 2 (RCA Victor). For his first recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, new Conductor Jean Martinon chose flashy and familiar works--two Dionysian ballets by fellow Frenchmen. Orchestra and conductor show up well, from the airy pianissimos that signal the break of day in the Ravel to the wildly pounding bacchanalia that climax the Roussel.

CINEMA

LA TAA TULA. In a first film of faultless artistry, Spanish Director Miguel Picazo studies a still beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) whose unyielding virtue conquers the passion she feels for her dead sister's husband.

MIRAGE. A plot that often seems trickier than a Chinese puzzle is pieced together entertainingly by a traumatized scientist (Gregory Peck) and a rather inept private eye (Walter Matthau) who keeps his wit about him.

CAT BALLOU. Lawlessness and disorder abound in this wickedly funny western about a pistol-packing schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) and the company she keeps. The best of the company is supplied by Lee Marvin, memorably double-cast as a couple of gunslingers-for-hire.

THE ROUNDERS. Two experienced cow-hams, Fonda pere (Henry) and Glenn Ford, deftly spoof the leathery heroic roles they used to play for real.

IL SUCCESSO. How to succeed, Italian-style, is the subject of a sometimes fierce, sometimes frolicsome satire about a rising young executive (Vittorio Gassman) and the loved ones he leaves behind.

IN HARM'S WAY. Vice, valor and victory in the Pacific at the outset of World War II, with John Wayne and Patricia Neal heading a do-or-die cast commanded by Director Otto Preminger.

A BOY TEN FEET TALL. The African odyssey of an orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) leads him to the lair of a rambunctious old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) and into a fresh and colorful adventure story.

RED DESERT. Director Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film is a provocative, painterly essay on alienation in a young wife (Monica Vitti) whose troubles appear to be a byproduct of heavy industry in Ravenna.

THE PAWNBROKER. As an anguished old Jew caught between the remembered horrors of Nazi Germany and the deadly grind of life in Spanish Harlem, Rod Steiger illuminates one of the year's grimmest films with one of the year's grandest performances.

BOOKS

Best Reading

IS PARIS BURNING? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The absorbing story of Hitler's determined, demented plot to blast the city of Paris to "a blackened field of ruins" rather than see it liberated. Following orders, General Dietrich von Choltitz went so far as to plant the explosives. But then he obeyed his conscience instead of his Fiihrer and delivered the city to the Allies.

THE WASHING OF THE SPEARS, by Donald R. Morris. This massive history of the Zulu nation highlights two chieftains: Shaka, whose wars of conquest depopulated much of southern Africa, allowing the Boers and British to move in, and his grandson Cetshwayo, who won many battles against British armies of the 1880s but lost the war and the land.

A SOUVENIR FROM QAM, by Marc Connelly. With a diaphanous novel set in the never-never kingdom of Sajjid, Playwright Connelly (The Green Pastures) makes his entertaining entrance into fiction.

EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, by Flannery O'Connor. The last stories of a powerful Southern writer who died last year at 39. She dramatizes her ever-recurring themes: sin and salvation, death and rebirth, and the Georgia earth she knew so well.

DOG YEARS, by Giinter Grass. The author's subject is again Nazi Germany, and he approaches it with obsessive fury. He uses savage humor and a seemingly limitless range of imagery to tell the story of two friends--one Jew, one Gentile--through the Nazi years, the war, and the sudden prosperity that followed.

ASSORTED PROSE, by John Updike. A fine collection of essays and reportage on subjects ranging from the art of light verse to Boston's long love-hate affair with Ted Williams.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2 last week)

2. The Ambassador, West (4)

3. Hotel, Hailey (1)

4. Herzog, Bellow (3)

5. The Source, Michener (7)

6. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (5)

7. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (6)

8. A Pillar of Iron, Caldwell (8)

9. The Man, Wallace (10)

10. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton (9)

NONFICTION 1. Markings, Hammarskjold (1)

2. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (2)

3. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (3)

4. Queen Victoria, Longford (4)

5. The Founding Father, Whalen (5)

6. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg (6)

7. The Italians, Barzini (7)

8. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (8)

9. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (9) 10. Modern English Usage, Fowler,

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