Television: May 1, 1964

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Wednesday, April 29

CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* First of a two-part series on French President Charles de Gaulle, his motives, philosophy and aims.

BEN CASEY (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). George C. Scott guest-stars as a brilliant surgeon who forges another doctor's name to obtain morphine for himself. Repeat.

Friday, May 1

THE BOB HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). George Peppard is an actor bitter at his inability to find work.

THE JACK PAAR SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Jonathan Winters, Art Carney, Jayne Mansfield.

Saturday, May 2

THE TRIPLE CROWN (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). The 90th running of the Kentucky Derby.

THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Louis Jourdan is host to Anna Maria Alberghetti and Henny Youngman.

Sunday, May 3

DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). The excavation of the ancient city of Tel Ashdod, Israel, now in the second year of a three-year excavation program. Repeat.

12TH ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (NBC, 4-5:30 p.m.). The finals of the four-day competition at Desert Inn Country Club, Las Vegas. Color.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Biography of Lenin and Trotsky.

DU PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). One of NBC News's Creative Projects, this is the real story of two fifth-grade teachers at a "culturally deprived" public school in Brooklyn.

THEATER

On Broadway

HAMLET is played by Richard Burton as Hamlet would have liked to have been —masterly, heroic, and never self-doubting. The tragedy is missing, but the production is lucid, fresh and vivid, and Burton makes the lines ring with present meaning rather than bygone eloquence.

HIGH SPIRITS. Such wildly improbable sprites as Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes spook the musical version of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit into comic afterlife. Danny Daniels' dancers are wide-eyed and their steps nimbly inventive.

FUNNY GIRL. Singing, loving, wheedling, Barbra Streisand is a shower of bright lights as she re-creates Comedienne Fanny Brice's starshoot over Broadway.

ANY WEDNESDAY. As sunny and as teary as a fickle April day, Sandy Dennis makes the mistressing game just slightly more complicated than doll housekeeping.

DYLAN. Alec Guinness plays Dylan Thomas on his last U.S. reading tour, his humor biting but not bitter, his heart in neither his life nor his poetry.

HELLO, DOLLY! is a twinkle-toed musical, thanks to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion's dancers and to a raffish, resourceful matchmaker, Carol Channing.

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. As a knavish TV writer-producer — not without times E.D.T. charm — Robert Preston uses the backfire from his faulty schemes to set bonfires under the next person he wants to roast.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Barely married and blissful but bickering, Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford cope with each other and with some engagingly kooky visitors.

Off Broadway

THE LOWER DEPTHS. In a crude beam-and-burlap basement, a group of humanity's dregs inhabit a no-exit hell of thoughtlessness, meanness and cruelty for each other, until a stranger for a while tries to set their lives in motion again and soothes them with the balm of understanding.