Television: Apr. 19, 1968

Wednesday, April 17

OUR TIME IN HELL (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Lee Marvin, an old Leatherneck himself, narrates this study of the U.S. Marine Corps’s World War II campaigns from Guadalcanal to Okinawa.

THE JULIE ANDREWS SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Gene Kelly and the New Christy Minstrels have another go-round with Julie, as her award-winning hour of song and dance is repeated.

Thursday, April 18

NBC CHILDREN’S THEATER (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). There’s something to cackle about when a small boy’s pet hen lays an egg that hatches out a dinosaur. That is the case in “The Enormous Egg,” a TV adaptation of Oliver Butterworth’s story.

Friday, April 19

TOMORROW’S WORLD: MAN AND THE SEA (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Astronaut-turned-Aquanaut Scott Carpenter and a group of scientists tell how man can and will exploit the oceans for further knowledge about their denizens as well as for food, drugs, oil and minerals.

Saturday, April 20

16TH ANNUAL TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Top members of the P.G.A. tour compete for $150,000 at the Las Vegas Stardust Country Club. Coverage continues on Sunday, 4-5:30 p.m.

ABC’S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, at University of Pittsburgh.

THE WIZARD OF OZ (NBC, 7-9 p.m.). Dorothy and her friends travel the yellow brick road once more as the 1939 classic, always a favorite on television, gets its tenth screening.

Sunday, April 21

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). “Unto a Lively Hope,” an examination of the Eastern Orthodox Church today, is highlighted by an exclusive interview with its Patriarch, His Holiness Athenagoras I.

NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). “Youth ’68—Everything’s Changing. . . or Maybe It Isn’t” is a visual and sound montage juxtaposing outspoken opinions on love, religion, drugs and war with the sights and sounds of popular music and dance. Interviews with the Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and The Papas and the Vanilla Fudge.

ROMP!! (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A lighthearted leap through the where-it’s-at world of the young, guided by Michele Lee and Ryan O’Neal, with not-so-young Guests Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Allen, Jimmy Durante, Liberace and Casey Stengel.

FRANK SINATRA: A MAN AND HIS MUSIC + ELLA + JOBIM (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). After receiving considerable acclaim last fall for this salute to rhythm, the threesome return for an encore.

BROADWAY ’68—THE TONY AWARDS (NBC. 10-11:30 p.m.). Angela Lansbury and Peter Ustinov host the 22nd presentation of the Antoinette Perry (“Tony”) Awards for theater, highlighted by production numbers from Hello, Dolly!, Golden Rainbow, Happy Time and How Now, Dow Jones.

Monday, April 22

THE BEAT OF THE BRASS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass take a musical trip around the U.S. stopping in such places as New Orleans during Mardi Gras, the children’s zoo in Los Angeles, and New York’s Ellis Island.

Tuesday, April 23

WHERE THE GIRLS ARE (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). They surround Noel Harrison while he presides over an hour of music and comedy skits featuring Cher, the Association, Barbara McNair, the Byrds, Don Adams and Professor Irwin Corey.

CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). “What Happened to the Riot Report?” finds encouraging response at the local level, but discouragingly limited action at higher levels of government.

CBS REPORTS: “HUNGER IN AMERICA” (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reporter David Culhane visits Virginia tenant farmers, Alabama sharecroppers, Arizona Indians and Texas Mexican-Americans to dramatize the plight of some 4,000,000 Americans who suffer from malnutrition.

Check local listings for dates and times of these NET programs:

NET JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). “My Name Is Children” studies the learning experiences of two children at the progressive Nova School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where students are exposed to a technologically advanced library, games that illustrate the techniques of modern propagandists, the audio-lingual study of foreign languages, and training in geometry and algebra from kindergarten on.

NET FESTIVAL. “The Life and Times of John Huston, Esquire” portrays Huston directing his recent film Reflections in a Golden Eye, acting with David Niven in 1967’s Casino Royale, directing his first opera at Milan’s La Scala Opera House, and relaxing in his Irish castle.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE EDUCATION OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. If nostalgia is defined as that which tells the past the way it really wasn’t, then this musical version of Leo Rosten’s story of an endearing and spunky immigrant tailor is nostalgic. Tom Bosley and Barbara Minkus are performers who make more lyrical music together than the score does.

THE SEVEN DESCENTS OF MYRTLE. When an impotent transvestite (Brian Bedford) who is dying of TB brings home the sometime prostitute (Estelle Parsons) whom he has just married to meet his half-breed half brother (Harry Guardino) just as the family farmhouse is threatened with flood, we have the classic elements of a Tennessee Williams play. Unhappily, the early Williams’ drive seems to have succumbed to drift, and eloquence to colloquialisms. Despite uniformly excellent acting, Myrtle seems like a sleepwalking tour of a dusty attic.

JOE EGG. British Playwright Peter Nichols uses imagination and resourceful humor to traverse territory mined with pain. Albert Finney and Zena Walker deftly handle changes of pace and mood as the parents of a spastic child.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. In Tom Stoppard’s gripping drama on inevitability, the Wittenberg Wander-kinder wander around Elsinore like two extras on the set to whom no roles have been assigned, and who cannot even decipher whether they are part of a comedy or a tragedy.

THE APA repertoire includes Pantagleize, a Belgian farce that wrestles with commitment in life; Exit the King, an existential drama that confronts the inexorability of death; The Cherry Orchard, a Chekhovian masterpiece on the relentlessness of change; and The Show Off, an American comedy about the maddening aspects of an all too recognizable human type.

PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN. Victoria stands out like a jewel in the long line of English crowns, and these successfully dramatized excerpts from journals and documents exhibit the many facets of a complex woman and revered ruler. Dorothy Tutin, James Cossins and Dennis King bring historical figures to stirring stage life.

PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon makes three bids to provide amusement and, ably assisted by Director Mike Nichols and Actors Maureen Stapleton and George C. Scott, comes up with a grand slam.

Off Broadway

JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS is a crystalline evening of songs that avoid sentimentality yet move deeply.

ERGO is a feverish farce by Austrian Author Jakov Lind, fervently directed by Gerald Freeman.

YOUR OWN THING is a rock musical that uses an Elizabethan vehicle, Twelfth Night, to celebrate the modern spirit.

THE INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX is a chilling glimpse of urban violence.

IPHIGENIA IN AULIS is a painful, potent treatise of ambition and war, written some 2,400 years ago.

IN CIRCLES is Gertrude Stein’s 360° play set to round music by Al Carmines.

CINEMA

I EVEN MET HAPPY GYPSIES. In all of this violent and tragic Yugoslav film, there is not a single happy gypsy, but despite many flaws and inconsistencies of style, it depicts in muted, melancholic color the odd, anachronistic ways of an all-but-forgotten people.

NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY. Adroitly blending bloody homicide and black comedy, this thriller pits a psyched-up killer with a closetful of disguises (Rod Steiger) against a callow New York cop (George Segal).

UP THE JUNCTION. Suzy Kendall, the newest and perhaps brightest of Britain’s new blonde birds, is reason enough to recommend this trip to a broken-down Battersea slum, based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) and directed by Peter Collinson (The Penthouse).

THE QUEENS. A four-part Italian confection made mainly of sex and well glazed with the talents of Monica Vitti, Claudia Cardinale and Capucine.

THE TWO OF US. The performances of two superb French character actors, one a 73-year-old man (Michel Simon), the other a nine-year-old boy (Alain Cohen), make a genuine triumph of this cheerful, warm comedy about—of all things—anti-Semitism.

THE PRODUCERS. Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks’s first film is a wildly funny joy ride with two canny Broadway showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop.

BOOKS

Best Reading

TO WHAT END, by Ward S. Just. The violent confusion of Viet Nam is artfully conveyed in these impressions by a Washington Post reporter who was wounded while covering the war.

DeFORD, by David Shetzline. In this sensitive first novel, an aging carpenter hangs on to his dignity and memories amidst the defeat and depravity of Skid Row.

TUNC, by Lawrence Durrell. The author’s first novel since the completion of the Alexandria Quartet in 1960 has a scientist struggling against the restrictions of established order and ultimately confronting the paradoxes of freedom.

VICTORIAN MINDS, by Gertrude Himmelfarb. A first-rate historian culls the lifework of nine not-so-long-ago thinkers in search of the roots of some of the modern world’s more piquant follies.

CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS, by Theodore H. White. A fine political journalist turns to ancient history for an engaging study of “the way men use other men to reach their goals.”

HISTOIRE, by Claude Simon. One of France’s leading New Novelists turns a family history into lyric fragments that subtly link the nature of consciousness and the storyteller’s art.

THE SELECTED WORKS OF CESARE PAVESE. An honest, unsparing pessimism suffuses these four short novels by the Italian author who, since his suicide in 1950, has gained international critical acclaim.

THE HOLOCAUST, by Nora Levin; and WHILE SIX MILLION DIED, by Arthur D. Morse. The familiar chronicling of Nazi terror against European Jewry takes a grim turn closer to home with documentation showing that Allied governments, including the U.S., refused to take action to prevent the genocide.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Airport, Hailey (2 last week)

2. Myra Breckinridge, Vidal (1)

3. Vanished, Knebel (3)

4. The Tower of Babel, West (4)

5. Topaz, Uris (5)

6. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (6)

7. Christy, Marshall (7)

8. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (8)

9. Rosemary’s Baby, Levin (10)

10. The President’s Plane Is Missing, Serling (9)

NONFICTION

1. The Naked Ape, Morris (1)

2. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (2)

3. Our Crowd, Birmingham (4)

4. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (5)

5. Tolstoy, Troyat (6)

6. Gipsy Moth Circles the World, Chichester (3)

7. The English, Frost & Jay (10)

8. The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology (7)

9. Kennedy and Johnson, Lincoln (9)

10. The Double Helix, Watson (8)

*All times E.S.T.