TELEVISION
Wednesday, October 2
CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* An attempt to explain what makes a Frenchman tick, through dramatized excerpts from the works of Camus, Cocteau, Anouilh, De Maupassant and Balzac.
ESPIONAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Premiere of a dramatic series filmed in Europe and based on the experiences of actual undercover agents.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ralph Bellamy makes his debut as chief psychiatrist in this season's series of psychiatric adventures. Tonight's story deals with infidelity.
Thursday, October 3 TODAY (NBC, 7-9 a.m.). Noel Coward appears on a program entirely devoted to him.
Friday, October 4
ROUTE 66 (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Joan Crawford plays the pursued wife of a homicidal maniac.
BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Premiere of the dramatic side of Hope's series. An billionaire Chippewa Indian returns to his home town to avenge his father's lynching. Color.
Saturday, October 5
ABC's WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). World's Professional High Diving championships from Toronto; the National Scrambles Motorcycle championships from Perris, Calif.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). "Ask Any Girl," starring Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young and David Niven. Color.
Sunday, October 6
DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). First of a five-part series on Israel's culture, focusing on the current archaeological discoveries.
ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Guest: Walter Reuther.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR IN LONDON (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Actress Taylor wanders around the city in which she was born.
A MAN NAMED MAYS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A TV portrait of the Giants' Centerfielder Willie Mays.
Monday, October 7
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). First of a two-part look at the glamour queens of the past 50 years.
Tuesday, October 8
THE RED SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Guests are Ginger Rogers and Jackie Coogan.
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Season premiere. Tonight's guests include Anna Moffo, Rudolf Nureyev, Richard Tucker and Robert Preston.
RECORDS
NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART (Columbia). Isaac Stern may have a peer or two among the world's violinists, but this is merely a breezy and beautiful little effort. Stern glides through a dozen "great violin favorites"--Greensleeves, Humoresque, Hoe-Down--and the album should keep
* All times E.D.T. him in bow resin for years to come.
PORGY AND BESS (RCA Victor) is another case of too much cake for the oven --this time with Leontyne Price towering over both score (excerpted songs) and cast (William Warfield, McHenry Boat-wright). The recording is rich, the singing is fine, and the livin' is easy--at least for those who can bear the thought of Price singing under Skitch Henderson's baton.
THE PRISONER'S DREAM (Capitol). Charles Lee Guy III has been an inmate of California State Prison since he was 16. The songs he has learned to sing there all reflect his sorry circumstance--and among them is the latest composition of a prison chum, country music's Spade Cooley. Guy's woeful voice and guitar accompaniment fit the spirit of his music, and in this remarkable album he has the power of a young white Leadbelly.
ODETTA SINGS FOLK SONGS (RCA Victor). Among misery shouters, Odetta has no equal, but here her laments are moody, her voice quietly her own, her songs familiar but seldom so well sung.
FLATT AND SCRUGGS AT CARNEGIE HALL (Columbia). Flatt, the Ev Dirksen of country talkin', and Scruggs, the Paganini of the five-string banjo, in further fruitful collaboration--this time before a downhome crowd up North.
THE SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM (Columbia) is just as good as the first, which is saying plenty. Lapses in pitch and occasionally blunt imitations of Lena Home can be quickly forgiven in eleven unusual interpretations by the most intelligent young singer around.
EVERYBODY WANTS FREEDOM (Battle). No song of the day has a better claim to attention than We Shall Overcome. Here, sung in company with twelve other songs of the integration movement by a group of freedom riders, sitters-in and freedom marchers called the Carolina Freedom Fighters, it movingly conveys the fervent force of the revolution it heralds.
CINEMA
THE CONJUGAL BED. There's no fool like an old fool, and it's sometimes painfully funny to see one learn just how foolish he is in this Italian comedy about a middle-aged man (Ugo Tognazzi) who marries a young girl (Marina Vlady).
THE MUSIC ROOM. India's Satyajit Ray tells a poignant and profoundly Asiatic tale about a man who ruined his life to save his face.
THE SUITOR. This slap-happy story about a young man in a hurry to get married is a magnificent catalogue of sight gags, all of them written, directed and personally interpreted by a young French funnyman named Pierre Etaix.
WIVES AND LOVERS. A jack (Van Johnson) and two queens (Janet Leigh, Martha Hyer) make a full house in this amusing game of stud devised by Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt and Director John Rich, who for the most part play their cards very well indeed.
THE LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in one of the year's finest films: Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily.
LORD OF THE FLIES. With scarcely a nod to Novelist William Golding's chilling allegory of the essential evil in man's nature, the producers end up with little more for your money than a scary adventure story about a band of castaway boys on a desert island.
THE GREAT ESCAPE. Maybe not as good as Paul Brickhill's book but still a bloody good show that describes a mass break from a German P.W. camp during World War II.
BOOKS
THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the eighth volume of their massive study of Western civilization, the Durants describe with wit and a wealth of anecdote an age preoccupied by the confrontation between rationalism and faith.
CHARLOTTE, by Charlotte Salomon. A touching visual diary of one Jewish family's persecution and extermination by the Nazis, painted by Charlotte just before her death in Auschwitz in 1943.
THE LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The poet and the anthologist corresponded for 46 years. Frost, a man who could not write a note for the milk man without giving it his own distinctive twist, writes over the long years of recurring tragedy in his own family, his endless gripes with little worlds of editors, politicians and educators, his deep distrust of liberalism, and his fierce judgment of his fellow writers.
TRAVELS: NEAR AND FAR OUT, by Anthony Carson. An engaging, if impractical, travel book by the most freewheeling, freeloading, freethinking tourist guide ever to enter the trade.
THE GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. Miss McCarthy's acerbic portrait of eight Vassar graduates ('33) is bestselling fiction, first-rate sociology about the Depression, and fascinating, previously unrecorded female lore.
THE UNMENTIONABLE NECHAEV, by Michael Prawdin. The story of the youthful fanatic who became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and who devised the bleak, dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model for Lenin's Bolsheviks.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (1 last week)
2. The Group, McCarthy (4)
3. Caravans, Michener (2) 4. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (3)
5. The Collector, Fowles (5)
6. City of Night, Rechy (6)
7. Joy in the Morning, Smith (9)
8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (8)
9. The Concubine, Lofts (7) 10. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier
NONFICTION
1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (4)
2. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (1)
3. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (2)
4. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky
5. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (3)
6. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (8)
7. Rascal, North
8. The Whole Truth and Nothing But,
Hopper (5) 9. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (6) 10. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton (7)
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