Wednesday, January 29 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "Les Halles: A Farewell," a parting glance at the famous, eight-century-old Paris food market, soon to be decentralized.
Friday, January 31
1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Men's downhill and cross-country skiing and ice hockey events on video tapes made in Innsbruck and jetted across the Atlantic.
Saturday, February 1
EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). An analogy is made between sports and ballet, with New York City Ballet's Jacques d'Amboise demonstrating.
1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). Special ski jump, two-man bobsled and ladies' figure skating events.
THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A gynecologist (Eileen Heckart) is arrested for operating a birth control clinic.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:27 p.m.). Lust for Life, MGM's 1956 film version of the tormented life of Painter Vincent van Gogh, played by Kirk Douglas. Color.
Sunday, February 2
1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). Ladies' slalom, two-man bobsled finals, and ladies' cross-country events.
ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). "The Oxford Method," an examination of Oxford University's tutorial system, featuring interviews with fellows and students.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A player's-eye view of ice hockey, with Chicago Blackhawk Stan Mikita, wired for sound and with a camera attached to him, playing an actual game.
Monday, February 3
THE LUCY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Lucille Ball teaches Ethel Merman to sing.
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). "The Birth of a Movie--The Cardinal."
1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Men's giant slalom and ladies' figure skating.
Tuesday, February 4
1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Ladies' giant slalom, combined ski jump, and toboggan finals.
NBC WHITE PAPER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Cuba, Bay of Pigs."
THEATER
On Broadway
HELLO, DOLLY! is a handsome, happy and airborne visit to Little Old New York, thanks chiefly to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion. Carol Channing, as a sassy matchmaker with heart, boosts the show's eye, ear and laugh appeal.
MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, is a dance made macabre by clowning, roughhousing and tenderness, but it is illuminated by the little-girl-lost-and-found acting style of Julie Harris.
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. A glib, gabby phony of a TV writer (Robert Preston) tries to shore up a crumbling career with sleight-of-tongue, and makes it.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Two antic newlyweds, plus a Hungarian gourmet and a pill-popper from New Jersey, amusingly find happiness in a bewildering New York brownstone.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Balancing faintheartedness and bravado, romanticism and Life Force, Playwright Peter Shaffer has written two one-acters in which an imaginative boy and a cocky detective shadow love.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING. At an R.A.F. base, lower-class conscripts turn in the twist and rock 'n' roll for folk song and poetry. Playwright Arnold Wesker challenges them with scorching good humor to give up their status quo for rebellion against the class system.
LUTHER. Playwright John Osborne's Luther is a fiercely burning torch--dampened by tormenting disagreement with his church, threatened by the double dangers of self-doubt and physical pain, but shedding the guiding light of the Reformation.
Off Broadway
THE LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett, reach depressing but strangely playful conclusions about infidelity--Pinter with mystifying urbanity, Beckett with poetic obscurity.
THE TROJAN WOMEN. With anguish, protective passion and wounded nobility, Mildred Dunnock, Joyce Ebert and Carrie Nye decry their fate, surrounded by a chorus whose every movement echoes the powerful and evocative words of the Euripides classic.
IN WHITE AMERICA. The pain, the humor, the anger and the pride of the U.S. Negro's history spring to pulsing life in this collection of dramatizations drawn from newspapers, journals and letters.
CINEMA
POINT OF ORDER. The undoing of Senator Joe McCarthy is the theme of this striking documentary gleaned from TV coverage of the historic Army-McCarthy hearings.
THE EASY LIFE. One of the funniest--and saddest--films ever made in Italy is Director Dino Risi's study of a raffish Roman playboy (Vittorio Gassman) who jet-propels a shy young law student (Jean Louis Trintignant) into a world of fast cars, soft shoulders and sudden death.
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. The time is now, the place is Manhattan, the boy is Steve McQueen, the girl is Natalie Wood--and when this comedy drama remembers to take itself lightly, the result is grade A Hollywood romance.
KNIFE IN THE WATER. A sexy Polish thriller about three people aboard a Freudian sloop on which there's many a slip.
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. In his rambunctious first feature, U.S. Director Adolfas Mekas turns the sober Vermont countryside into a landscape by Dali, and proves himself one of the new cinema's most skilled farceurs.
BILLY LIAR. As hilariously mirrored by Actor Tom Courtenay, a young man's fancies turn to lust, liquor, fascism, bloody revenge, anything at all to escape the grime and grind of working-class life in modern Britain.
TO BED OR NOT TO BED. Alberto Sordi brings his sunny southern warmth to this Italian comedy about a frisky fur merchant who discovers firsthand that sex in Stockholm is still in the ice age.
TOM JONES. Vice triumphs--most engagingly, too--in this movie masterpiece wrested by Director Tony Richardson from Fielding's ribald 18th century classic. Albert Finney and Hugh Griffith head a superb cast.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. A tragical-farcical sequel to The Wapshot Chronicle hurls the hapless Wapshot family from cozy 19th century St. Botolphs into the present precarious world of supermarkets, noncommunities and missile research centers, and establishes Author Cheever as Suburbia's first poet-mythologist.
THE LITTLE GIRLS, by Elizabeth Bowen. A cool, controlled, meticulously written parable of no return. Three old ladies attempt, literally and figuratively, to dig up the secret of their childhood, and find only their own damaged selves.
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, by John le Carre. This grim, exciting cold-war thriller about a genuine professional in the international spying game is a good antidote for mystery fans fed up with excessively flashy Fleming.
TWO BY TWO, by David Garnett. The author refloats the Ark with a wine-guzzling Noah at the helm. The resulting fantasy can be taken as frivolously Biblical or ominously nuclear.
LOOKING FOR THE GENERAL, by Warren Miller. Billy Brown, alienated nuclear physicist, seeks redemption for a decadent world in the arrival of supermen from another planet. Of course, it doesn't turn out that way, but Billy's voice is satirically refreshing.
DON'T KNOCK THE CORNERS OFF, by Caroline Glyn. This 15-year-old first-novelist shows an old pro's shrewdness in choosing the subject matter she knows best: the fiercely competitive world of an English boarding school for little girls.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (3)
4. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (9)
5. Caravans, Michener (4)
6. The Living Reed, Buck (7)
7. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (6)
8. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (8)
9. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (10)
10. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever
NONFICTION 1. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (1)
2. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (2)
3. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (3)
4. The American Way of Death, Mitford (6)
5. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (5)
6. Rascal, North (4)
7. Dorothy and Red, Sheean (7)
8. The Rise of the West, McNeill (10)
9. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (8)
10. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (9)
* All times E.S.T.
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