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Summer on Ice (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A tardy farewell to winter. Tab Hunter, Rosemary Clooney and Tony Randall join the cast of Ice Capades in an out-of-season spin on skates.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family comes touchingly alive in the hands of a superb cast.
Redhead. A theatrical thoroughbred (Gwen Verdon) carries this plow-jockey musical into the winner's circle.
J.B. About a modern, grey-flannel Job reduced to sackcloth. Poet Archibald MacLeish's language and logic are on the cloudy side, but the evening is radiant with theatrical excitement.
La Plume de Ma Tante. A crew of madcap Frenchmen have built a better laugh-trap and theatergoers are beating a path to its box-office door.
The Flower Drum Song. R. & H. skimped on the ingredients this time, but the entertainment is still flavorsome.
A Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill casting a theatrical illusion of life around the idea that life is illusion.
The Pleasure of His Company. An overage playboy, Cyril Ritchard, decides that his daughter and her fiance do not qualify for a marriage of true minds, and he promptly supplies the impediments.
My Fair Lady cribs from Shaw, West Side Story cribs from Shakespeare, and The Music Man cribs from a silo of Iowa corn, making these three musicals grand larceny and great entertainment.
Off Broadway
Mark Twain Tonight! Premature old age descends nightly on Actor Hal Hoibrook, 34, as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and the wisdom of the great humorist as a platform lecturer of 70.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. Anti-Communist Koestler takes a new tack, provides an animated lecture on the cosmologists who changed men's view of the heavens, including Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
The Straw Man, by Jean Giono. All the world's a stage, and all men either players or played upon, in this operatic tale of revolt in 19th century Italy.
War Memoirs, by Charles de Gaulle. The author does not hesitate to take a hero's role or to name his villains in the second volume (1942-44) of his brilliantly written memoirs.
Du Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the girl who learned the social and sinful graces in the Paris underworld, became the last mistress of Louis XV.
Time Walked, by Vera Panova. An apolitical but warmly Russian account of the tides in the life of a six-year-old boy.
Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. Six stories about social D.P.s — Jews trying to belong in the Gentile world.
The House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. A thin, well-read line of intellectual heroes, says Columbia University's Barzun. must hold the past against artiness, scientism and coddled incompetents.
King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A rousing account of nine-lived old Warrior-King Mithridates.
Points of View, by Somerset Maugham. The party is old, but the guests still sit entranced by a master conversationalist.
Endurance, by Alfred Lansing, Shackleton's foolish-heroic Antarctic expedition re-created in well-modulated prose.
The Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. A veteran of Merrill's Marauders writes movingly of the anatomy of courage.