Wednesday, November 13
CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*
In detective-story style, a report on how a rumor grew to the point where it affected high-level decisions.
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Soprano Eileen Farrell, Actor Louis Jourdan and Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan.
Thursday, November 14
THE NURSES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Brandon de Wilde is the patient on whom a doctor wants to try a risky new drug.
Friday, November 15
THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope, Kathryn Grant (Mrs. Bing Crosby) and Jill St. John in a slice-of-lifer about a middle-class couple who buy a house next to a notorious gangster. Color.
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guest stars include Rhonda Fleming, Martha Hyer, Nancy Sinatra and Dana Wynter.
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Charlton Heston stars as Thomas Jefferson in a dramatization of Sidney Kingsley's play The Patriots, dealing with the struggle between Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Color.
Saturday, November 16
EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). The story of Montezuma, ruler of the Aztecs. Eli Wallach narrates. Color.
Sunday, November 17
DISCOVERY '63 (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Bil Baird's Puppets dance to Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, with poetry by Ogden Nash.
ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Former President Eisenhower is interviewed from his Gettysburg farm.
NBC NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). A repeat of David Brinkley's 1961 tour of Hong Kong. Color.
SUNDAY SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The Harlem Globetrotters play British stage and screen celebrities in London.
THE TRAVELS OF JAIMIE McPHEETERS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Charles Bronson joins the wagon train for the remainder of the journey.
THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Zina Bethune discards her nurse's uniform to try singing and dancing with Vic Damone.
Monday, November 18
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Kay Kendall and Rex Harrison in The Reluctant Debutante. Color.
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The life and career of "The Unsinkable Bette Davis."
BREAKING POINT (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Shelley Berman plays a salesman accused of attempted assault.
Tuesday, November 19
COMBAT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Denise Darcel shields a wounded Ameri can soldier.
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Joan Sutherland, Patti Page, Martyn Green, Maria Tallchief. Color.
CINEMA
KNIFE IN THE WATER. In this sophisticated thriller from Poland, Director Roman Polanski puts two men and one woman aboard a small sloop, where he can explore human relations at his leisure --and with a surgeon's skill.
TOM JONES. A peerless comic novel of two centuries ago has been pinched, patted, fondled and smacked into sidesplittingly funny life by Director Tony Richardson. As the hero. Albert Finney makes Olde England jolly indeed, and Hugh Griffith richly earns bed and bawd in a rakehell portrayal of Squire Western.
THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS. In this sensitive first film. Director Ermanno Olmi places one gentle Italian lad inside a large business building and poignantly documents his long, hard climb to clerical nonentity behind a desk of his very own.
MARY, MARY. Jean Kerr's crackling comedy about an all-but-divorced couple (Debbie Reynolds and Barry Nelson) proves, if it proves anything, that incompatibility can be funny as hell.
THE MUSIC ROOM. India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy) examines the affectingly human decline and fall of a proud, fat, foolish old Bengali aristocrat.
MY LIFE TO LIVE. A young wife turned prostitute seeks her salvation in the pursuit of pleasure, a racy theme developed with unblemished artistry by French Director Jean-Luc Godard, maker of Breathless.
THE LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily.
THE HOUSEHOLDER. Sweetly humorous are the clashes between Prem and Indu, a pair of young marrieds getting used to each other in spite of themselves in modern Delhi.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE, adapted faithfully but rather ponderously from the short story by Carson McCullers, finds Playwright Edward Albee in middling-to-poor form. However, Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and a remarkable actor-dwarf, Michael Dunn, give the evening scattered moments of phantasmagorical vitality.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon, puts a pair of newlyweds (Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford) in a fifth-floor Manhattan walkup, and lights a crackling bonfire of laughs around them.
JENNIE is a grandiose musical dud, dropped on Laurette Taylor's early life and hard times. Amid the gloom, Mary Martin shines like the inextinguishable star that she is.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, one-acters by Peter Shaffer, argue that The Private Ear attuned to music can be hard of hearing when it comes to women, and that a thoughtful, whimsical sharing of Public Eyefuls can lead to love.
THE REHEARSAL. Anouilh's ironically gay comedy is edged in black--for the drawing-room murder of a jaded count's true love for an innocent governess.
LUTHER, by John Osborne. unleashes thundering theater and shaky theology around the man who brought about the Reformation. In the title role. Albert Finney is a sight to behold.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker. fights the class war between the Establishment and the proles in a peacetime R.A.F. training camp. The play takes the blight off its agit-propwash with its humane and rollicking good humor.
Off Broadway
THE STREETS OF NEW YORK smiles through the tears in this musical adaptation of one of 19th century Dramatist Dion Boucicault's marshmelodramas about a mortgage-foreclosing cad of a banker. In a properly silly mood, a playgoer can bear with the ancient corn and relish the singing and miming of a stylishly spoofy cast.
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, descends into the degraded minds and souls of men, and in that hell finds a startling hope of heaven.
THE ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms. Roddy Maude-Roxby is maniacally funny, and fetching Carole Simpson sings songs of 20th century woe with almost Brechtian detachment.
RECORDS
THE MUSIC OF ARNOLD SCHOENBERG, VOL. II (Columbia). Conductor Robert Craft, long-established as a specialist in the modern repertory, remains a masterful interpreter of Schoenberg's music. The CBC Symphony is cool and clear in performances of Pelleas and Melisande, Prelude to the Genesis Suite, Three Little Orchestra Pieces, Variations for Orchestra and Verkliirte Nacht--which Schoenberg wrote as a string sextet in 1899 and revised (for string orchestra) 44 years later.
REGINE CRESPIN (Angel). Soprano Crespin has the distinction of being both the finest operatic voice of France and one of opera's leading Wagnerians. Here she sings arias from Tannhueiuser together with Verdi's Otello and Il Trovatore, Rossini's William Tell and Berlioz' Damnation of Faust, and seems equally at home in all four styles and all three languages.
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES: MELODIES DE FRANCE (Angel). Soprano De los Angeles has a voice as well-suited to dulcet song cycles from France as to the Spanish repertory she often sings. Here, with little help from the Paris Conservatory Orchestra under Georges Pretre, she sings Ravel, Duparc and Debussy with ease and grace.
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 6 ("THE PASTORAL") (RCA Victor). A sumptuous offering by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, encased in a fat album full of prints of famous landscape paintings and snatches from famous poems--all in celebration of nature.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE BENDER, by Paul Scott. A compassionate novel about an intelligent but ineffectual man watching himself go down for what may be the last time.
PLANET OF APES, by Pierre Boulle. By keeping the pace fast and sideshows entertaining, Author Boulle gets a whole novel out of a one-line joke--what life would be like if monkeys, not men, won the anthropological race.
OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS, by Jean Genet. Playwright Genet's first novel is a scatological search for his own soul, carried out by shadowy, bisexual characters who turn out to be various elements of his psyche.
JOHN KEATS, by Walter Jackson Bate, and JOHN KEATS, by Aileen Ward. Bate pays extensive attention to the poetry; Miss Ward is more absorbed with the poet's life, but both biographies are first-rate.
TELEPHONE POLES, by John Updike. Poems of grace, brevity, wit and wisdom by a man who was a light-versifier before he was a novelist.
THE HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who realizes, with horror, that he is losing his sincerity and developing writer's cramp in the smug swamps of suburbia.
THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "Read this letter twice!" Fitzgerald once wrote to his daughter in the course of advising her about love, money and manners. Most of these letters to her and to his friends are worth at least one reading.
BEYOND THE MELTING POT, by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan. The authors' conclusion is that the pot does not melt. Their blunt approach to the thickets of sociology makes excellent reading, though not everyone will agree with their tendency to pigeonhole particular national characteristics.
THE McLANDRESS DIMENSION, by Mark Epernay. A slyly satiric formula for estimating the character of statesmen and public personages by calculating their ability to concentrate on something other than themselves and ironic assaults on the dignity of bureaucracy. The pseudonymous author is ex-Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (3)
4. Caravans, Michener (4)
5. The Three Sirens, Wallace (7)
6. The Living Reed, Buck (10)
7. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (5)
8. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (9)
9. The Collector, Fowles (8)
10. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (6)
NONFICTION
1. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (2)
2. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1)
3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (4)
4. Rascal, North (3)
5. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (5)
6. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (6)
7. The Education of American Teachers, Conant (9)
8. A Kind of Magic, Ferber (8)
9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (7)
10. The Wine Is Bitter, M. Eisenhower (10)
* All times E.S.T.
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