Television: Jul. 4, 1969

Wednesday, July 2

SPECTRUM (NET, 8-8:30 p.m.)— "Learning to Love" focuses on "intensive group experience," a technique evolved by psychologists at La Jolla's Western Behavioral Sciences Institute to help improve human relations.

Thursday, July 3

NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Peter Luke's comedy A Man on Her Back is about the love affair of an earnest young musician and a girl who is soft in both the heart and head.

SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "It Can Be Done" reports on the city of Atlanta's success in promoting interracial good will.

Saturday, July 5

WIMBLEDON OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS (NBC, 12:30-2 p.m.). The men's singles finals live from England. The women's singles and men's doubles from 5-6 p.m.

BUICK OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (CBS, 5-6 p.m.).

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster have a communication problem in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948).

Sunday, July 6

A.A.U. TRACK AND FIELD MEETS (CBS, 3-4 p.m.). National A.A.U. Women's championships from Dayton.

SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Steve Allen takes viewers on a tour of June festivities in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, dropping in on the American Wind Symphony's riverside concert, an international folk festival, and a performance by Duquesne University's tamburitzan dancer-musicians.

Monday, July 7

SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Operation Breadbasket" is an examination of Chicago's black self-help project organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, written, narrated and directed by Robert (/ Spy) Gulp.

THEATER

On Broadway THE FRONT PAGE. It is always a surprise when a play can be revived after 40 years without looking and sounding like a doddering idiot. If this production has a rather cornball, period flavor, that only adds relish to a high-spirited and highly amusing evening.

HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel Hadrian the Seventh, a minor masterpiece of wish fulfillment about a rejected candidate for the priesthood who is elected Pope. Alec McCowen's performance as the fictional Pope is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting.

Off Broadway

OH! CALCUTTA! is, for a good part of the evening, diverting and civilized, though it scarcely provides the "elegant erotica" that Kenneth Tynan promised. If it gets a minus on eroticism, the show does get two solid plusses for the laughter it evokes and its celebration of the body beautiful.

NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY is a black panther of a play, stalking the stage as if it were an urban jungle. Playwright Charles Gordone is too honest to lie about a bright brotherly tomorrow, but he tells the racial truth about today.

ADAPTATION—NEXT are two richly humorous one-acters. Satirist Elaine May directs both her own Adaptation and Terrence McNally's Next.

TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a moving tribute to the late playwright Lorraine Hansberry, made up of readings and dramatizations from her writings.

DAMES AT SEA is a delightful parody of the movie musicals of the 1930s, complete with naive Ruby, who comes to Broadway to tap her way to stardom.

MUSIC