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All-Star Baseball Game (NBC, 2:45 p.m.). From Kansas City.
Democratic National Convention. All three networks report the opening ceremonies and Senator Frank Church's keynote speech. CBS, 8 p.m. to midnight; NBC, 8:30-11:15 p.m.; ABC, on occasion.
Tues., July 12
Convention (Contd.). Business session, including a platform-committee report. CBS, 7 p.m.1 a.m.; NBC, 7:30-11:15 p.m.; ABC, on occasion.
THEATER
On Broadway
Bye Bye Birdie. Rock 'n' rollers of the unsilent generation turn this musical about a pompadoured, gold-jacketed crooner into one of the season's best, least pretentious musicals.
Fiorello! Director George Abbott keeps this affectionate, musical memoir as lively as the comic strips the Little Flower used to read over the radio.
West Side Story. In this bustling revival, the dances by Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins and the score by Leonard Bernstein still add up to the fanciest rumble ever seen around the sidewalks of New York.
The Miracle Worker. Memorable acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft transform a somewhat disorganized script into a touching, eloquent chronicle of Helen Keller's childish groping for courage and skill to face a sightless life.
The Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky's engaging allegory explores ancient Jewish mysticism for guidance in solving a spiritual problem of the present.
Toys in the Attic. Three women struggle to keep their lap dog—an engaging but spineless ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.) whose sudden change of fortune gives him strength to slip the leash.
Off Broadway
The Prodigal. Youthful Playwright Jack Richardson turns the Orestes legend into a brilliantly mocking and modern fable.
The Balcony. With acidulous understatement, Playwright Jean Genet divides the world's population into whores and their clients as he tries to prove in this ironic comedy that a house is not only a home but the whole world.
Little Mary Sunshine. The most successful off-Broadway production in years is a Western-accented parody of vintage operetta, a kind of Die Rockymaus telling Tales of the Boulder Woods.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence.
by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. A scrapbook of the poet's life—letters, poems, reviews, Christmas cards and conversation —painstakingly collected by an old friend.
Merry Monarch, by Hesketh Pearson. In a highly entertaining study, Biographer Pearson (Oscar Wilde) insists that, for all the debauchery in the life of Charles II, the madcap monarch was also a witty, wily, effective politician and a determined architect of a prosperous England.
Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. A lively, partly autobiographical study of the Mitford sisters who, like a sextet of disenchanted princesses, haunted the '30s by marrying various men and ideologies, and showing Britain's aristocracy in conflict with history and with itself.
Memoir of the Bobotes, by Joyce Gary. Written when the future novelist was a young man and still three decades away from literary greatness, this unpretentious collection of notes about a half-forgotten Balkan war is nevertheless rich with ob served truth about arms and the man.