Time Listings: Jul. 19, 1963

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TELEVISION Thursday, July 18

The Twilight Zone (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).* Mystery of an American astronaut who loses contact with ground control for six hours while in orbit and finds things strangely unfamiliar when he returns. Repeat.

Saturday, July 20

P.G.A. Championship Golf Tournament (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). From DAC Country Club, Dallas.

Miss Universe Beauty Pageant (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). John Daly, Arlene Francis and Gene Rayburn act as hosts as Miss Universe 1963 is chosen in Miami Beach.

Sunday, July 21

P.G.A. Golf Tournament (CBS, 4:30-6 p.m.). Final rounds.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Franco's Spain." Report on Spain's economic structure, the impact of U.S. aid and the role of the Roman Catholic Church. Repeat.

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of the life of Beethoven. Color. Repeat.

Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). Spencer Tracy and Fredric March star in Inherit the Wind.

ABC News Close-up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). ABC goes to Calhoun, Ky., home of the McLean County News, for the portrait of a country editor. Repeat.

Monday, July 22

Vacation Playhouse (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Ginger Rogers plays twin sisters involved with a fickle playboy in the premiere of a new summer series.

David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Report on racial problems in Birmingham, England. Color. Repeat.

Tuesday, July 23

United States-Russian Track Meet (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Fifth track meet between the two countries, video-taped from Lenin Stadium, Moscow.

THEATER

Straw Hat

Each week, more package shows cast off for the tour of tents and barns that makes up a large part of summer theater (TIME, June 28). Among the recent launchings and their scheduled ports of call between July 17 and Aug. 20:

Top Banana shouldn't prove too slippery a skin for Milton Berle to zip himself into. Gaithersburg, Md.; Devon, Pa.; Haddonfield, N.J.; West Springfield, Mass.; Westbury, N.Y.

The Millionairess, Shaw's ode to free enterprise, stars Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing as the robber baroness. Westport, Conn.; Mineola, N.Y. (two weeks); Millburn, N.J. (two weeks).

Romanoff and Juliet, by Peter Ustinov, is a sort of nonmusical East-West Side Story—the lovers being kept apart by the cold war. Walter Slezak will bring them together. Nyack, N.Y.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Miami (two weeks).

Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams' often moving drama about yet another assortment of sick, sick people, played by a strong, though not star-studded, cast including Mark Richman, Vicki Cummings and Irene Dailey. Philadelphia; Latham, N.Y.

Irma la Douce ought to have a deuce of a time as two road companies vie with the current film version: Juliet Prowse will play it at Devon, Pa.; Haddonfield, N.J.; West Springfield, Mass.; Gaithersburg, Md. Genevieve will play it at Wallingford, Conn.; Framingham, Mass.; Warwick, R.I.; Warren, Ohio; Columbus.

Elsewhere, a gaggle of otherwise unemployed stars and near stars have shows but won't travel:

The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman's real soured mayonnaise of a play about a very nasty woman, with Mercedes McCambridge. Indianapolis through July 28.