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Face to Face (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Warren Hull is host on a behind-the-news personality program coming from Hollywood.
Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). That indestructible melodramatic farce, Seven Keys to Baldpate.
Tues., June 26
The Garry Moore Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The show bows off for the season, and marks the last appearance of Carol Burnett as a regular. Guests: Alan King and Carol Haney.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Initially conceived by Plautus and cunningly performed by Zero Mostel, his fellow clowns and six delectable houris, this zany burlesquerie is good for high, low, and furrowed brows.
A Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. Playwriting about nonconformism is the conformist thing to do these days. Fortunately, Herb Gardner brings verve, humor, and a freshly observant eye to the subject, and his cast, headed by Jason Robards Jr., could scarcely be improved upon.
The Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. Four people work out their tormented destinies on a Mexican veranda in this New York Drama Critics Circle prize play. For sustained dramatic power, tension and beauty, the second-act scenes between Margaret Leighton and Patrick O'Neal are unequaled on the current Broadway stage.
A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt. This New York Drama Critics Circle prize foreign play might have taken its theme from Shakespeare's line, "Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own." Paul Scofield matchlessly exemplifies the subject, Sir Thomas More.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying slyly paints a mustache on the corporate image. Robert Morse powers this musical with his ebullient portrayal of an Org Man rocketing to the top.
Off Broadway
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad,
by Arthur Kopit. An evening of surrealistic foolery on the topic of why Mom is a witch. Goofy, oomphy Barbara Harris is the Lolita of off Broadway.
Brecht on Brecht. This revue-styled evening of aphorisms, songs, scenes and poems is a generally exciting introduction to a master of 20th century theater.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The talented satirist of Goodbye, Columbus has produced a long novel on the troubles of the university young; page by page, it is a delight of flawless dialogue and sour wit, but taken in sum it is another solemn novel about a young man lured by the sirens of Meaninglessness.
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swin-nerton. The surviving member of a pair of old literary feudists is led, by his antagonist's death, to some uncomfortable conclusions about his own life. One of the best novels of a writer whose work is too little appreciated.
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly clever arrangement of mirrors, trap doors and hidden staircases bamboozles readers, critics and perhaps characters in this thoroughly eccentric novel, most of which is in the form of a windy gloss of an old poet's last work, by an academic woodenhead who may or may not be the deposed, homosexual ex-king of a land called Zembla.