Television: Aug. 6, 1965

Wednesday, August 4

ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).*

“Hiroshima—and Then There Were

None,” a program commemorating the

20th anniversary of the first nuclear raid.

Friday, August 6

FDR (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). “Rendezvous with Destiny,” the rumblings of Hitler and Mussolini abroad, the grumblings of the Supreme Court at home. Repeat.

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Elaine May and Mike Nichols are among the guests. Repeat.

Saturday, August 7

ABC’S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The North American Roller-Skating Championships in Lincoln, Neb., and the World Professional Target Diving Championship in Las Vegas.

Sunday, August 8

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Historian Arnold Toynbee and University of Chicago History Department Chairman William H. McNeill dis cuss whether religion can promote mankind’s adjustment to technological, social and political changes.

AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE EXHIBITION GAME (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). Buffalo at Boston.

NBC SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The Dutch Grand Prix.

Monday, August 9

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Solo is sent to Europe to investigate an aging process so fast that people grow from childhood to senility in a few hours. Repeat.

Tuesday, August 10

PEYTON PLACE (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A landmark: Episode No. 100.

THEATER

Straw Hat In the last weeks of summer, the straw-hat circuit becomes a testing ground for new shows with their sights on Broadway.

Some of the tryouts and their scheduled stops between now and autumn:

A MINOR MIRACLE upsets the routine of an elderly parish priest whose hobby is handicapping horses; Lee Tracy is the priest, and Dennis King his bishop, in Al Morgan’s comedy. Miami; Millburn, NJ.

A REMEDY FOR WINTER is offered in Playwright Leonard Spigelgass’ play about a noted historian (Dana Andrews) and his involvement with an actress (Susan Oliver). Holyoke, Mass.; Westport, Conn.; Falmouth, Mass.; Philadelphia; Chicago.

COME LIVE WITH ME. A comedy by Lee Minoff and Stanley Price stars Jack Car ter as a divorced American screenwriter in London. The farcical entanglements start when a Danish au pair girl moves in and his ex-wife visits. Westport.

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. In Allan Lewis’ comedy, Anne Baxter is a widow who falls in love with a man from the State Department (Gene Raymond). To make things cozier, her daughter is in love with his son. Dennis, Mass.; Ivoryton, Conn.; Wineland, Ont.; Ogunquit, Me.; Skowhegan, Me.

HERE LIES JEREMY TROY. In a comedy by Jack Sharkey, Troy is a lawyer (Will Hutchins) whose life is based on a series of misunderstandings. Murvyn Vye plays his boss, and Darren McGavin an artist friend. Skowhegan; Fitchburg, Mass.; Ogunquit; Dennis.

MADAME MOUSSE is a meddling mother who breaks up the marriages of her children, then puts them back together again. Written by Actor Jean Pierre Aumont, the comedy stars Molly Picon. Westport; Paramus, N.J.; Mineola, N.Y.

MRS. DALLY HAS A LOVER. William Hanley has extended and revised his story of a woman, her husband, and her afternoon lover; with Arlene Francis, Ralph Meeker, and Robert Forster. Mineola; Denver; Nyack, N.Y.; Ogunquit; Westport.

PURPLE DUST is Ted Allen’s musical adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s farce about two Englishmen who try to set up house in a crumbling mansion in Ireland. With British Comedian Monty Landis, Ray Middleton and Richard Kiley. East Haddam, Conn.

SO MUCH OF EARTH, SO MUCH OF HEAVEN, a play by Henry Denker, based on a play by Ugo Betti, is concerned with the return to power of a dictator. With Claude Rains, Larry Gates, Lester Rawlins. East Hampton; Westport; New Hope, Pa.

THE GENIUS FARM is a writers’ colony in New England run like a monastery by Marni Nixon—until Johnny Johnston arrives to disturb her cloister complex. Book and lyrics by Norman Retchin, music by Hal Borne. Mineola.

THE GRASS IS GREENER, already seen in London and on the screen, stars Maurice Evans and Celeste Holm. Hugh and Margaret Williams’ comic tale concerns an English aristocrat who opens his home to the public. Mountainhome, Pa.; Falmouth.

THE UNEXPECTED GUEST, an Agatha Christie chiller, stars Joan Fontaine and James Coco as a murdered man’s wife and valet who think they know whodunit. Westport; East Hampton; Corning, N.Y.

CINEMA

THESE ARE THE DAMNED. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) unleashes his razzle-dazzle camera techniques in a small science-fiction thriller about a tart (Shirley Anne Field) and a tourist (MacDonald Carey) who stumble onto some nightmarish experiments on the English coast.

THE FASCIST. Italian history is wryly spoofed in the conflict between a Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tognazzi) and a droll philosopher (Georges Wilson) whom he must steer through retreating Germans, invading Allies, and other perils that afflicted the peninsula in 1944.

THE KNACK. As the gamine up for grabs in a town house occupied by three offbeat British bachelors, Rita Tushingham shines through the sight gags in Director Richard Lester’s (A Hard Day’s Night) frantic, hilarious version of the stage hit.

A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. Seven not-so-innocent children, true to the spirit of Richard Hughes’s classic adventure tale, put to sea with a scruffy pirate crew led by Anthony Quinn, who finds every tousled head a headache.

THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. A corps of high-borne comedians (Gert Frobe, Alberto Sordi, TerryThomas) barnstorm through a London-Paris air race at the controls of delightful vintage 1910 aircraft—held together by heroism, slapstick and nostalgia.

HIGH INFIDELITY. In four zesty episodes, this Italian comedy draws and quarters the subject of extramarital dalliance, assigning the choicer bits to a jealous wife (Monica Vitti) and a vacationing businessman (Nino Manfredi).

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE LOOKING GLASS WAR, by John Le Carre. The author of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold has written another bleak, absorbing novel about Britain’s aging espionage agents, their archaic methods, and their attempts to relive World War II glories in cold-war intrigue.

MICHAEL FARADAY, by L. Pearce Williams. Faraday (1791-1867) was probably the greatest experimental scientist who ever lived; the first induction of electric current and the first dynamo are among his achievements. In this excellent biography, Author Williams shows how Faraday’s almost limitless intelligence emerges and finally flourishes, with only a Sunday-school education and no usable mathematics.

LET ME COUNT THE WAYS, by Peter De Vries. Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet too.

INTERN, by Doctor X. At the end of each exhausting week that he spent as an intern in a metropolitan hospital, Doctor X wearily logged every last event on his tape recorder. The result is as remote and fascinating as an anthropologist’s field report, as immediate and authentic as a skilled eyewitness account.

BOY GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author perceptively delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Source, Michener (1 last week)

2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2)

3. The Looking Glass War, Le Carre (7)

4. The Green Berets, Moore (4)

5. Hotel, Hailey (3)

6. The Ambassador, West (5)

7. Don’t Stop the Carnival, Wouk (6)

8. Night of Camp David, Knebel (8)

9. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (9)

10. Herzog, Bellow

NONFICTION 1. The Making of the President, 1964, White (1)

2. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (2)

3. Markings, Hammarskjold (3)

4. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (4)

5. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (5)

6. The Founding Father, Whalen

7. Intern, Doctor X (6)

8. Queen Victoria, Longford (8)

9. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Wolfe

10. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands

* All times E.D.T.