Wednesday, December 4
ESPIONAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Carl Schell (brother of Max and Maria) and Ronald Howard (son of Leslie) star in a drama about a cynical spy reformed by a child.
Thursday, December 5
THE JIMMY DEAN SHOW (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Guest: Gwen Verdon.
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Anne Francis and Gary Merrill in "The Machine That Played God."
Friday, December 6
THE GREAT ADVENTURE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Joan Hackett in the story of a nun's teaching experiences in Colorado in 1872.
BOB HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Behind the scenes with a disintegrating political-campaign manager played by Milton Berle, with Dina Merrill and Ruth Roman.
Saturday, December 7
VICTORY AT SEA (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Twenty-two years after Pearl Harbor, a repeat of the highlights of NBC's 26-episode series.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney and Lee J. Cobb in The Left Hand of God.
Sunday, December 8
DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Verdun: The End of the Nightmare," a report on W.W. I's bloodiest military engagement.
SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "1776," the recreation, in films shot at Lexington, Concord, Boston, Philadelphia, Williamsburg, England and France, of the mood and the times.
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The second of a three-part rerun of Disney's 1960 movie Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills.
Monday, December 9
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The first of two parts on motion picture comedians, featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, Louise Fazenda and Mabel Normand.
Tuesday, December 10
THE RICHARD BOONE SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Boone stars in "Big Mitch" a comedy-drama written by the late Clifford Odets.
THE SOVIET WOMAN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A special, featuring an interview with Mrs. Khrushchev.
RECORDS
RAY CHARLES: INGREDIENTS IN A RECIPE FOR SOUL (ABC-Paramount). Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, Charles teams up with a studio full of musical midgets and almost survives their attempts to pull him down to Teensville. But not quite. Arranger Marty Paich, the Jack Halloran Singers and some errant fiddlers get the best of him on all but a few tunes. Besides, what is "The Genius" doing singing such things as You'll Never Walk Alone and Ol' Man River!
THE WORLD OF MIRIAM MAKEBA (RCA Victor) looks more like Harry Belafonte's old neighborhood all the time. But when she sings in the pure voice of Africa (as she does on half the twelve tunes), no one could be better.
PIAF AND SARAPO AT THE BOBINO (Capitol) presents the late Edith Piaf in the enthusiastic but otherwise drear company of her young (25) Greek husband, Theo.
The songs, however, are among her best:
Monsieur Incognito, Chez Sabine, La Bande en Noir, Le Chant d' Amour.
A KURT WEILL CABARET (MGM) faithfully captures the spirit of the year's best tribute to Weill and his collaborators. Folksinger Will Holt is passable, but Soprano Martha Schlamme (TIME, June 21) is passionately aware of each song's message, and her singing is a dulcet expression of irony, grief and joy.
SINATRA'S SINATRA (Reprise) is supposed to be "a collection of Frank's favorites," and turns out to be a bland bouquet of his hits.
THE DREAM DUET (RCA Victor) is not Flagstad and Melchior any more but Anna Moffo and Sergio Franchi. No kidding. Here they sing a syrupy selection (Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, Sweethearts) and, but for the bad repertory, all but live up to their brazen billing.
BRANDENBURG GATE: REVISITED (Columbia) is a noble effort on the part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet to co-exist with an orchestra in tunes from the quartet's standard repertory--In Your Own Sweet Way, Summer Song, and the opus magnus, Brandenburg Gate. An E for effort and a gentleman's C for middling success.
THE CLANCY BROTHERS AND TOMMY MAKEM (Columbia) in live performance at Carnegie Hall. Lively, cheerful and as Irish as the moon over Galway Bay.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE is a wan retracing by Playwright Edward Albee of Carson McCullers' dark fable about the strange and obsessive attractions of love. Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and Michael Dunn, a malapert actor-dwarf, are locked in this luckless triangle of yearning and rejection.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK should probably insure its audiences with Lloyd's of London, just in case anyone dies laughing. Playwright Neil Simon's unpredictable wit, Mike Nichols' spry direction, and Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley's comic finesse as a pair of blissfully wacky newlyweds provide incessant merriment.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two tenderly playful one-acters, examine the love of a sensitive lad fumbling toward a misconceived joy and a drowning May-September marriage that needs artificial respiration to bring it back to life.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, strafes, bombs and generally demolishes U and non-U types at an R.A.F. training base. The chief weapon is laughter as Wesker admonishes the proles to stop kowtowing to their superiors as if they were superior.
THE REHEARSAL. Neither their witty words nor the 18th century costumes they wear for a play within this Anouilh play can hide the motives of aristocrats intent on destroying a pure -- and classless -- love.
LUTHER, by John Osborne, seethes with the inner violence of a religious passion, but stutters rather than stirs when it comes to theological insights. As Luther, Albert Finney struggles tortuously and awesome ly for his truth.
Off Broadway
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, relentlessly builds to an unheard scream of conscience that resonates in the soul of an evil justice until he takes the first unsteady steps toward repentance.
THE ESTABLISHMENT. Nothing is sacrosanct to this sextet of deceptively urbane Britons except their right to boil big names and bigger isms in a cauldron of laughter.
THE STREETS OF NEW YORK blinks rather amusingly through the crocodile tears of Dion Boucicault's 19th century melodrama. The singing voices in this lively musical have near-perfect pitch, and the spoofing is stylish.
CINEMA
HIGH AND LOW. In modern Yokohama, a vicious kidnaper bungles his attempt to nab a wealthy shoemaker's child. And Director Akira Kurosawa coolly demonstrates that all it takes is genius to transform a routine suspense yarn into fascinating drama.
KNIFE IN THE WATER. Aboard a sloop go two bristling males, one with a knife, one with a wife--and Director Roman Polanski runs a taut ship in this first-rate thriller from Poland.
THERESE. This adaptation of Franc,ois Mauriac's 1927 novel about a woman who poisons her husband because he is so thoroughly provincial offers visual beauty, literate dialogue, and a truly stunning performance by Emmanuele Riva, heroine of Hiroshima, Man Amour.
TOM JONES. Albert Finney is Tom. Hugh Griffith is Squire Western. And Director Tony Richardson is the man responsible for wresting a movie masterpiece from Fielding's ribald classic about the "favourite Follies and Vices" of 18th century England.
MURIEL. Though it cannot match the gossamer style of Last Year at Marienbad, this latest work by France's Alain Resnais is an interesting failure, distinguished by the presence of beautiful Delphine Seyrig as a greying widow full of ineffable yearnings for yesteryear.
MARY, MARY. A soupcon of wisdom, a lot of wit are laced into Jean Kerr's zingy comedy about marriage-on-the-rocks. Debbie Reynolds and Barry Nelson star in the screen version of the play.
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 strangely satisfying salvation in the pursuit of pleasure, a racy theme developed with unblemished artistry by French Director Jean-Luc Godard, maker of Breathless.
BOOKS
Best Reading
APOLLINAIRE, by Francis Steegmuller. An excellent biography separating fact from the multiplying legends about the flamboyant French poet who was an early experimental voice in modern French poetry and the cultural midwife of the cubist movement in painting.
THE FIRST DAY OF FRIDAY, by Honor Tracy. Although this light satire about an impoverished Irish vicar does not quite make it down the author's Straight and Narrow Path, it is still mad enough to make very good reading.
DOROTHY AND RED, by Vincent Sheean. Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis were mismarried for 14 years. He drank like a school of fish; she harassed him by conducting stifling salons. She also recorded all the grim details in her diary, and whatever she missed Old Friend Sheean provides in a running commentary of his own.
A SENATE JOURNAL, by Allen Drury. As U.P. correspondent in the Senate from 1943 to 1945, Author Drury (Advise and Consent) wrote a journal as well as dispatches. Since he loved politics and understood the Senators, his record of the war as seen from Capitol Hill is acute and vivid.
THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "Our lives have come crashing down around us like a pile of trays," Fitzgerald wrote to his friend Edmund Wilson. It is during these last sad years that most of the letters were written, and they show courage and humor in the face of every kind of adversity.
THE FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA, by Bertram Wolfe. The artist's life was like his murals: colorful, complicated and done on a grand scale. Though he was a loudly enthusiastic Communist for most of his life, his work was espoused by critics and capitalists rather than the masses, and Wolfe records every fierce conflict with both.
A SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. By capitalizing on his gift for fantasy and his necrophilic imagination, Donleavy (The Ginger Man) has written another wild and funny novel.
THE HAT ON THE BED, by John O'Hara. Twenty-four more masterly short stories of ever-widening range by the most accomplished as well as the most prolific practitioner of the art.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
3. The Living Reed, Buck (3)
4. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (6)
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (4)
6. Caravans, Michener (5)
7. The Three Sirens, Wallace (8)
8. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (7)
9. City of Night, Rechy (10)
10. Our Lady of the Flowers, Genet
NONFICTION
1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (2)
2. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (1)
3. Rascal, North (3)
4. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (4)
5. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (6)
6. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (5)
7. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (7)
8. Wanderer, Hayden
9. The Education of American Teachers, Conant (10)
10. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (8)
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