Wednesday, February 5 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).-Jason Robards Jr. stars in an adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Color.
Friday, February 7
BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Dana Andrews plays a sportsman discovered by Castro's cops in Cuban waters and sentenced to die for sabotage. Color.
Saturday, February 8 EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). Actors Maurice Evans and Martyn Green discuss Shakespeare for children, and the Ritts Puppets perform Hamlet. Color.
1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Men's figure-skating events.
Sunday, February 9
ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Guest: Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater.
1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). Men's slalom, ice hockey and men's cross-country relay.
ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). A study of Paolo Veronese's painting Mars and Venus United by Love.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Michigan's George Romney. Color.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-7 p.m.). A program devoted to the songs of Harold (Over the Rainbow) Arlen.
1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Special ski jump and review.
Monday, February 10 HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A look at Hollywood's matinee idols, including lovers Francis X. Bushman, Rudolph Valentino, John Barrymore, Charles Boyer, Clark Gable and Gary Grant.
Tuesday, February 11
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). In one of his rare TV appearances, Louis Jourdan plays a circus director from behind the Iron Curtain.
THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Soprano Joan Sutherland and Dancers Suzanne Farrell and Conrad Ludlow. Color.
THEATER
On Broadway
AFTER THE FALL. Arthur Miller returns to the stage after more than eight years of silence in a torrent of self-revelation. The Furies who pursue the playwright are chiefly his mother and Marilyn Monroe, his second wife. Miller's version of the truth of these relationships is harrowingly fascinating.
DYLAN chronicles the U.S. reading-tour years of Dylan Thomas' expiring life, when the poet was already posthumous but the hellraiser still lived. In a display of acting greatness, Alec Guinness conveys the special hell from which the man found no exit.
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 faulty but fascinating spectacle that converts a sleazy dance floor into a metaphor for the endurance contest of life. Julie Harris has rarely been so completely right for a role.
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. 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 amusingly find happiness in a bewildering New York brownstone.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Balancing faintheartedness and bravado, Playwright Peter Shaffer has written two one-acters in which an imaginative boy and a brash detective shadow love.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING. With scorching good humor, Playwright Arnold Wesker challenges some lower-class conscripts at an R.A.F. base to give up their status quo for rebellion against the class system.
LUTHER, by John Osborne, chronicles the rising indignation, eloquence and rebellion of its hero against the 16th century church. John Heffernan has replaced Albert Finney as God's Angry Young Man.
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. Surrounded by the Greeks, the Trojan women circle and berate, protesting their unhappy condition with a moving cry against the tyranny of fate--a cry which has echoed and re-echoed since Euripides wrote this classic.
CINEMA
DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Director Stanley (Lolita) Kubrick's nightmare comedy about nuclear annihilation is wildly satirical and brilliantly acted by George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and (in a triple role) the protean Peter Sellers.
THE FIANCES. Italy's Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets) brings total mastery of his art to this wispy tale of a long-engaged couple who must lose each other to rediscover their love.
THE GUEST. Two oddball brothers play host to a scruffy tramp. And with cracking good dialogue and superb acting, the screen version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker remains nearly as fascinating--and just as ambiguous--as it was onstage.
POINT OF ORDER. The undoing of Senator Joe McCarthy is the subject of this striking documentary on the historic Army-McCarthy hearings.
THE EASY LIFE. In one of the funniest--and saddest--films ever made in Italy, a Roman playboy (Vittorio Gassman) jet-propels a shy young law student into a world of fast cars, soft shoulders and sudden death.
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. Despite occasional nonsense in the plot, Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen brighten this comedy about a girl who believes that a mother-to-be has certain responsibilities, such as finding a husband.
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. In his rambunctious first feature, U.S. Director Adolfas Mekas turns the sober Vermont country side into a landscape by Dali, and proves himself one of the new cinema's most skilled farceurs.
BILLY LIAR. The far-out fantasies of a young clerk (Tom Courtenay) delightfully transform one of those bleak English cities into a non-U Utopia.
TO BED OR NOT TO BED. As an Italian fur merchant investigating sex in Sweden, Alberto Sordi finds the climate better suited to frostbite.
BOOKS
Best Reading
JAMES FORRESTAL, by Arnold A. Rogow. Except for some weirdly psychoanalytical conclusions, this is a careful biography of the U.S.'s first Secretary of Defense, a brilliant, mercurial man whose drive and ambition were limitless but whose Irish soul floundered in despond.
THE BELLS OF SHOREDITCH, by James Kennaway. An acid satire of a weak-kneed young Socialist who is down to his last slogans until his wife goads him into trying to copy the big boss, revealing within him a rich vein of pure capitalist.
LOOKING FOR THE GENERAL, by Warren Miller. In this wild but curiously trenchant metaphysical farce, a young nuclear physicist decides that men from another planet will redeem the earth.
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. It establishes 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 PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The final volume of an excellent biographical trilogy on Trotsky, in which Stalin is shown using the immense apparatus of international Communism to stalk his old rival from country to country, to murder his sons, and finally to strike down the tough old man himself.
Best Sellers FICTION
1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (3)
3. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
4. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (8)
5. The Living Reed, Buck (6)
6. Caravans, Michener (5)
7. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (4)
8. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (10)
9. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (9)
10. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (7)
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 (4)
5. Rascal, North (6)
6. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (5)
7. Dorothy and Red, Sheean (7)
8. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (9)
9. William Shakespeare, Rowse
10. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (10)
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