Television: Aug. 16, 1963

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Wednesday, August 14

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS 10-11 p m)* A drama about a blind and deaf Indian girl from the slums of Singapore who is brought to the U.S. for treatment. Zia Mohyeddin is the instructor. Repeat.

Thursday, August 15 The Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Guests include Mel Tormé, Frances Faye and Eduardo Sasson. Host is Vic Damone. Color. The World of Maurice Chevalier (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Television portrait of the ageless entertainer.

Friday, August 16 International Beauty Spectacular (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The 45 contestants for the title of Miss International Beauty are backed up by a corps de ballet and original music by Meredith Willson. Live from Long Beach, Calif.

Saturday, August 17 The Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Part II of the Emmy award-winning drama Madman. Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11:20 p.m.). The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Color.

Sunday, August 18 Issues and Answers (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.).

Guest is Dr. Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University and newly named head of the Republican Critical Issues Council.

The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).

Guests: Joan Sutherland, Delia Reese and Stan Kenton.

Crucial Summer: the 1963 Civil Rights Crises (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Second in a series of five studies of the battle tor integration.

Tuesday, August 20 The Dick Powell Show (NBC, 9:30-10-30 p.m.). Anthony Franciosa, Julie London, Jim Backus, Jules Munshin, Cesar Romero and Zsa Zsa Gabor are featured in a melodrama of staggering complexity revolving around a beleaguered nightclub owner.

THEATER

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For those who prefer their theater a little meatier than Broadway leftovers reheated for the summer circuit, there is always Shakespeare. Across the land, Shakespeare festivals are proliferating in colleges, in parks, in barns, in permanent installations that sometimes even look like Elizabethan theaters. A few have found it expedient to lard their offerings of the bard with other classics from Shaw to Gilbert and Sullivan. On the menu: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Ore.: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ro meo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Henry V. Season ends Sept. 7.

National Shakespeare Festival, Old Globe Theater, San Diego: Antony Cleopatra, A Midsummer Ntght's Dream.

The Winter's Tale. Also on the program. a full-scale presentation of Purcell's opei Dido and Aeneas (usually performed these days only in concert version). Througn

"Colorado Shakespeare Festival, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.: A company of 20 students from colleges in the U S and England perform Measure for Measure, Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing. Through Aug. 17

Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Lakewood, Ohio: Measure for Measure Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet and Henry V. Season ends Sept. 13.

American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Conn.: The Comedy of Errors, Henry V, King Lear and Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. Through Sept. 15.

New York Shakespeare Festival, Central Park, New York City: The last of the season's plays, The Winter's Tale, will run through Aug. 31. ,