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The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Amateur and professional sports-car racing as seen in various places, plus interviews with Amateur James Kimberly and Pro Stirling Moss (taped before he was injured). Repeat.
Mon., Aug. 6
Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Repeat of last fall's excellent program, assembled from photographs, sketches, paintings, films made in the Van Gogh country of Provence. Color.
THEATER
Boothbay Harbor, Me., Playhouse: Early lonesco: The Bald Soprano and The Lesson.
Cambridge, Mass., Loeb Drama Center: Captain Brassbound's Conversion, a lesser comedy by Bernard Shaw, sends one of his typical, indomitable heroines and a very domitable romantic rebel on a Shavian Road to Morocco.
Warwick, R.I., Musical Theater: Steve Lawrence as the soulless heel in Pal Joey.
New Brunswick, N.J., Children's Summer Theater: Incredibly, a dramatic version of The Canterbury Tales—for the kiddies.
New Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: A pre-Broadway tryout by John Fritz, When the Beer Goes National, with Paul McGrath and Frances Reid.
Devon, Pa., Valley Forge Music Fair: Comic Red Buttons falls into the familiar Tender Trap.
Washington, D.C., Carter-Barren Amphitheater: Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, with Ginger Rogers as the female sharpshooter.
Washington, D.C., Theater Lobby: In rotation and chiefly for antique fanciers: Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, four one-acters by Tennessee Williams, Invitation to a March by Arthur Laurents, The Zoo Story by Edward Albee.
Highland Park, III., Tenthouse Theater: Ozzie and Harriet (Nelson) have escaped from TV into a sex farce, The Marriage-Go-Round.
Hillside, III., Melody Top: The permanently demented Phyllis Diller in Wonderful Town.
Canal Fulton, Ohio, Summer Arena: The deliciously rubber-faced Imogene Coca reposes Under the Sycamore Tree.
Bardstown, Ky., Dan Talbott Amphitheater: The Stephen Foster Story, by America's open-air bard, Paul Green.
Charlotte, N.C., Music Theater: Bye Bye, Birdie with Selma Diamond, a gag writer for Perry Como, widely known for the flavor of pastrami on wry she used to provide as a guest on the Paar show.
Beckley, W. Va., Grandview Amphitheater: Honey in the Rock, an alfresco Civil War drama by Kermit Hunter; a thousand thrills plus picnic facilities promised by the management.
Seattle, Wash., Old Seattle Theater: The Connection, Jack Gelber's jeremiad for junkies.
San Anselmo, Calif., Festival Theater: Christopher Fry's early, little known but charming play about pagan Britain, Thor, with Angels.
San Diego, Calif., Circle Arts Theater: Janet Blair in Bells Are Ringing, a musical dating from the days when telephone exchanges still had names.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Inheritors, by William Golding. A richly imagined novel, by the author of Lord of the Flies, about the dying out of Europe's last band of Neanderthals.
Rocking the Boat, by Gore Vidal. The playwright does not always give his best effort to these impudent essays on politics and literature, but his boat rocking, though not dangerously violent, is worth being on hand to see.