Wednesday, March 25 CHRONICLE (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.).* Visits with two still-creative venerables--Photographer Edward Steichen, 82, and Artist Jacques Lipchitz, 72.
SUSPENSE (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). A new dramatic series about men who risk their lives. The first episode stars Arthur Kennedy and Martin Balsam as New York Police Department bomb-squad experts.
ESPIONAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Anthony Quayle as a British agent who marries a Russian agent.
Friday, March 27 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Rod Steiger as a Hollywood movie czar, in a script by Rod Serling.
Saturday, March 28 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Sports-car racing from Sebring, Fla., and the National Skiing Championships from Winter Park, Colo.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:14 p.m.). Kazan's Wild River, with Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick.
Sunday, March 29 DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 2-3 p.m.). Earl Wild's Easter Oratorio conducted by Composer Wild.
ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The dilemma of a small group of Sioux Indians unable to decide whether to leave the reservation or not.
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 1 of Disney's appealing Greyfriars Bobby, a feature-length film about a Skye terrier.
BREAKTHROUGH (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Medicine-Shape of the Future," a special on kidney transplantation and other new advances.
Monday, March 30 HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Part 1 of two shows on the history of the Academy Awards, with flashbacks, ranging from Janet Gaynor in 1927 to Ernest Borgnine in 1955.
Tuesday, March 31 CHANGING MATILDA: THE NEW AUSTRALIA (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Chet Huntley reports on the surge of immigration to Australia, the problems of the barren interior land, and the country's economic involvement in Asia.
THEATER
On Broadway
ANY WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis as a kept woman in a peignoir looks about as sophisticated as a teen-ager wobbling in her first pair of heels. Later, clutching a closetful of balloons, she appears about to take off, which this delightfully wacky comedy does from the start.
FOXY is a vaudeville version of Volpone that permits Master Clown Bert Lahr to play hide-and-sucker with the golddiggers of the Yukon.
DYLAN. A legendary actor, Alec Guin ness, plays a legendary poet, Dylan Thom as, during his punishing reading tours of the U.S. The drama is sustained by Dylan's sly humor, poetic insights, self-abrasive remorse and fierce, hurting battles with his wife.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK tries to corner the laugh market in two hours and just about does it. Playwright Neil Simon plants six-day newlyweds in a five-flight walk-up where it snows through a missing skylight, and the fun is practically incessant.
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, but everybody loves Robert Preston, an enchanting rogue, a human jinx, and a TV python of mass media production. Ronald Alexander's comedy is caustic, pertinent and wildly amusing.
HELLO DOLLY! is an effusive, gladhanding, toe-bounding musical set in turn-of-the-century Manhattan. Carol Channing is the evening's superwoman, and she acts and sings like a cat that has swallowed a cat.
Off Broadway
THE BLOOD KNOT, by Atholl Fugard.
Linked in a funny and scalding love-hate relationship, two half brothers, one black and one white, play out their fantasies in a tin shack in South Africa and become symbols that laugh, cry and bleed.
AFTER THE FALL is a nightlong session of group therapy conducted for his own self-justification by Arthur Miller, with special attention to his mother and his wives, notably Marilyn Monroe. Elia Kazan's staging is electric, but Miller has not put enough distance between his life and his craft to fashion a play. It alternates, in repertory, with Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions and S. N. Behrman's But For Whom Charlie.
THE TROJAN WOMEN, directed by Michael Cacoyannis from a translation by Edith Hamilton, gives U.S. theatergoers a rare sense of the power, agony, and cyclonic passion of the Euripidean classic. The players movingly depict the fate of a small handful of proud women caught in the tormenting clutch of war and their Greek conquerors.
IN WHITE AMERICA. This series of documentary dramatic sketches about racial intolerance is moving in its self-contained pain, playfully barbed in its humor.
RECORDS
BELAFONTE AT THE GREEK THEATER (RCA Victor) is a two-LP argument by Harry Belafonte, his singers and dancers that music can sear the conscience while it delights the ear; the occasional murmurs of exhilaration are the sound of his audience in the act of understanding.
WE SHALL OVERCOME (Columbia) presents Pete Seeger and an even more sympatico audience in a recital of folkish song and sentiment; among the songs is that trenchant critique of the U.S. landscape Little Boxes (TIME, Feb. 28).
THE TIMES THEY ARE ACHANGIN' (Columbia) is Folksinger Bob Dylan's way of singin', but that's his way of thinkin' too, and he means every word of it. His particular fantasy, sentimental but appealing: life only comes into perspective when seen through tears of pity.
WHERE I'M BOUND (Elektra) is a gazetteer to the musical milieu of Folksinger Bob Gibson. It stretches only from The Waves Roll Out to Betsy from Pike, but Gibson's command of it is elegant and secure.
LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS (Columbia) have a huge new audience of bluegrass Yankees, but they still sound best down home in Nashville. The two Grand Ol' Opry stars are here presented in a live concert at Vanderbilt University, and they pick right through the heart of their Rebel song book.
AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES (Columbia) is the first album of an earthy, hard-rocking blues singer named Judy Roderick. Her Mildred Bailey style and repertory may be an anachronism--but what a pleasant anachronism. Among the songs: Miss Brown to You; Brother, Can You Spare a Dime; and Hoagy Carmichael's Baltimore Oriole.
CINEMA
BECKET. Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, and Richard Burton as the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, duel for acting honors in this richly tapestried film version of Jean Anouilh's drama.
THE SERVANT. A callow young aristocrat meets his master when he employs a "gentleman's gentleman," played to evil perfection by Dirk Bogarde in U.S. Director Joseph Losey's slick, spooky essay on class distinction in Britain.
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. In three lusty fables directed by Vittorio De Sica and co-starring Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren proves herself a versatile comedienne, a whole Italian street scene rolled into one woman.
STRAY DOG. A rookie detective (Toshiro Mifune) tracks a killer through the Tokyo underworld in a newly imported 1949 melodrama by Director Akira Kurosawa, which stirs up the rubble of postwar Japan.
THE SILENCE. Two sisters united in love-hate, one a lesbian, one a nymphomaniac, try to fill the emptiness of their souls with physical passion as they act out a tortured drama in which the only innocents are a child and an old man. Not Ingmar Bergman's best, but memorable.
THE FIRE WITHIN. A morbidly fascinating drama, directed by France's Louis (The Lovers) Malle, climaxes in the suicide of a charming, alcoholic gigolo (Maurice Ronet).
DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Stanley (Lolita) Kubrick's nightmare comedy offers fine performances by George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and the ubiquitous Peter Sellers.
THE GUEST. The screen version of Harold Pinter's drama (The Caretaker) retains its major asset, Donald Pleasence, still seedily eloquent in the title role.
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. As a vacillating virgin who fears she has missed a lot, Jane Fonda makes the way of all flesh appear refreshingly healthy.
THE FIANCES. Old love refurbished is the theme of a poignant little masterwork by Italian Director Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets).
TO BED OR NOT TO BED. As an Italian fur merchant on the loose in Stockholm, Alberto Sordi finds Sweden's moral climate unseasonably cool.
TOM JONES. Ten Oscar nominations are the latest evidence that Fielding's picaresque 18th century novel has become a classic screen comedy
BOOKS
Best Reading
ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND THE CONSTITUTION, by Clinton Rossiter. A major reappraisal of the flamboyant Hamilton's role in the founding of the U.S. Government by a historian who ten years ago dismissed him as "reactionary." Taking a long second look, Rossiter finds Hamilton "the prophet of industrial America."
THE OLD MAN AND ME, by Elaine Dundy. The author of The Dud Avocado turns out another funny novel on the very same theme: the trials of a pretty, eager American girl trying to get into the snobbish London social orbit.
RACE: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA IN AMERICA, by Thomas F. Gossett. The author contends that racism would not have endured so long without the wholehearted support of intellectuals and leaders from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Roosevelt.
MISS LEONORA WHEN LAST SEEN, by Peter Taylor. Fifteen stories about corrosive marriages and disfiguring age-quiet stories, right on target, that may well outlive their flashier contemporaries.
THE CHILDREN AT THE GATE, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The author's last novel, completed before his death last year at 36, tells of a daft but saintly man and how another slowly takes life and grace from him.
THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever (see BOOKS). In this tender, moral tale of uprooted America, the 19th century Wapshots come to painful, if comic terms with the 20th. The survivors of The Wapshot Chronicle neither mourn nor imitate the old ways but cherish their spirit as "a vision of life as hearty and fleeting as laughter."
THE MARTYRED, by Richard Kim. Also dealing with spiritual agony, this remorseless and controlled first novel takes the Korean war as its setting and the presumed martyrdom of twelve Christian ministers as its theme.
WHEN THE CHEERING STOPPED, by Gene Smith. For the last 17 months of his presidency, Woodrow Wilson was grievously ill, mentally and physically. Reporter Smith piles up evidence to show that the President's wife and doctor kept the knowledge from the public while "the U.S. Government went out of business."
ONE FAT ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. The author's best novel since Lucky Jim tells of the misadventures of a rich, snobbish English publisher among some very irreverent Americans.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week)
2. The Group, McCarthy (2)
3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (3)
4. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (5)
5. The Martyred, Kim (6)
6. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (4)
7. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (9)
8. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (7)
9. Caravans, Michener
10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming
NONFICTION
1. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (1)
2. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (2)
3. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (3)
4. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (7)
5. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (5)
6. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (4)
7. The Great Treasury Raid, Stern (6)
8. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (10)
9. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (8)
10. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (9)
*All times E.S.T.
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