Television: Aug. 16, 1963

Wednesday, August 14

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS 10-11 p m)* A drama about a blind and deaf Indian girl from the slums of Singapore who is brought to the U.S. for treatment. Zia Mohyeddin is the instructor. Repeat.

Thursday, August 15 The Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Guests include Mel Tormé, Frances Faye and Eduardo Sasson. Host is Vic Damone. Color. The World of Maurice Chevalier (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Television portrait of the ageless entertainer.

Friday, August 16 International Beauty Spectacular (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The 45 contestants for the title of Miss International Beauty are backed up by a corps de ballet and original music by Meredith Willson. Live from Long Beach, Calif.

Saturday, August 17 The Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Part II of the Emmy award-winning drama Madman. Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11:20 p.m.). The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Color.

Sunday, August 18 Issues and Answers (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.).

Guest is Dr. Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University and newly named head of the Republican Critical Issues Council.

The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).

Guests: Joan Sutherland, Delia Reese and Stan Kenton.

Crucial Summer: the 1963 Civil Rights Crises (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Second in a series of five studies of the battle tor integration.

Tuesday, August 20 The Dick Powell Show (NBC, 9:30-10-30 p.m.). Anthony Franciosa, Julie London, Jim Backus, Jules Munshin, Cesar Romero and Zsa Zsa Gabor are featured in a melodrama of staggering complexity revolving around a beleaguered nightclub owner.

THEATER

Straw Hat

For those who prefer their theater a little meatier than Broadway leftovers reheated for the summer circuit, there is always Shakespeare. Across the land, Shakespeare festivals are proliferating in colleges, in parks, in barns, in permanent installations that sometimes even look like Elizabethan theaters. A few have found it expedient to lard their offerings of the bard with other classics from Shaw to Gilbert and Sullivan. On the menu: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Ore.: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ro meo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry V. Season ends Sept. 7.

National Shakespeare Festival, Old Globe Theater, San Diego: Antony Cleopatra, A Midsummer Ntght’s Dream.

The Winter’s Tale. Also on the program. a full-scale presentation of Purcell’s opei Dido and Aeneas (usually performed these days only in concert version). Througn

“Colorado Shakespeare Festival, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.: A company of 20 students from colleges in the U S and England perform Measure for Measure, Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing. Through Aug. 17

Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Lakewood, Ohio: Measure for Measure Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet and Henry V. Season ends Sept. 13.

American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Conn.: The Comedy of Errors, Henry V, King Lear and Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra. Through Sept. 15.

New York Shakespeare Festival, Central Park, New York City: The last of the season’s plays, The Winter’s Tale, will run through Aug. 31. ,

Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ont.: The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac and G. & S.’s The Mikado. Season ends Sept. 28.

CINEMA

The Thrill of it All. The cinematic succession of unsuccessful assaults on Doris Day’s virtue not only has ended with this latest film, it has gotten a few jumps ahead of the ladies in the balcony: Doris is married to Obstetrician James Garner and is the mother of two singularly objectionable children. With apple-cheeked efficiency she not only finds time to sell soap on TV but assists as mobile midwife when Arlene Francis has a baby in the back seat of a Rolls-Royce.

Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman’s story about two Southern spinsters and their younger brother is the same tangle of tormented sibling relationships it was on the stage in 1960 and just as lacking in life though Geraldine Page, Wendy Miller and Dean Martin try valiantly to give it spark.

My Hobo. This Japanese song of the open road involves a clever tramp, a lady tramp, and two waifs who tramp along with them on the road to Tokyo. Seemingly inspired more by Italian comedy thin Nipponese realism, Hobo nonetheless makes some sharp comments on the present state of prosperous, overly Westernized Japan.

The Great Escape. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Donald Pleasence are among the Allied officers who stage a wholesale escape from a Nazi prison camp in one of the season’s most exciting pictures.

This Sporting Life. This English picture is brutally honest as long as it stays on the playing fields. But when its rugby-playing hero (Richard Harris) gets tangled in a love affair with a widow, both he and the plot become confused.

My Name Is Ivan. An extraordinary Russian film about a boy who spies behind the Nazi lines during World War II made with sensitivity and human understanding.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Aneurin Bevan, by Michael Foot. A full, sympathetic biography of England’s most militant socialist and Churchill’s most abrasive critic, who was also a great.Parliamentarian, a man of chivalrous gaiety and wit who loved charming and arming London society.

The Collector, by John Fowles. There is not one wrong word in this story of a weird, solitary young man who branches out from butterflies to young girls for his chloroformed collection. Author Fowles impales the collector as exquisitely as any of his specimens.

Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933-62, by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. Though corporate history seems an unlikely subject for drama, this book makes lively reading of the time when the Ford Motor Co. was a chaotic, money-losing corporate mess, its aging founder out of touch with his own company and his own times. The authors go on to trace the corporations recovery, guided by Henry Ford II and his Whiz Kids, among them Secretary ot Defense Robert McNamara.

Night and Silence Who Is Here?, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Some highly diverting goings on among the intellectuals, spivs careerists and crackpots putting in a well-subsidized academic year at a New England college. The fey Fellows make even more enjoyable sport when it is understood that they are really acting out parts in a prose version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in academic dress.

Elizabeth Appleton, by John O’Hara. For those who take their campus politics more seriously, this hefty bestseller recounts the maneuvering of a New York socialite to land her husband the presidents job in a small Pennsylvania college.

Mrs G.B.S., by Janet Dunbar. George Bernard Shaw’s love life was strictly postman’s knock as one torrid affair after another has been found to have been only on paper. But for 45 years he was a testy but loyal husband, she a malleable wife in a perhaps unconsummated but oddly sucessful marriage.

Notebooks 1935-42, by Albert Camus, Alphorisms, definitions. New Year’sresolutions, quotations from Rama Krishna, and meditations on Don Quixote—all in these diaries of a very brilliant, very young man.

Best SellersFICTION

1.The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (I, last week)

2. Elizabeth Appleton, O Hara (2)

3. City of Night, Rechy (4)

4. The Glass-Blowers, Du Mauner (3)

5. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (6)

6. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (5)

7. The Concubine, Lofts

8. Raise High the Roof Beam, Salinger (7)

9. The Bedford Incident, Rascovich

10. The Collector, Fowles

NONFICTION 1. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (1)

2. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope

3. The Whole Truth and Nothmg But, Hopper (2)

4. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (4)

5. My Darling Clementine, Jack Fishman (6)

6. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton (5)

7. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (8)

8. Forgotten Pioneer, Golden

9. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower

10. A man Named John, Hatch

* All times E.D.T.