TELEVISION

Wednesday, May 6

CBS REPORTS (CBS. 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The second of two parts on De Gaulle.

Friday, May 8

BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Gisele Mackenzie, Buster Keaton, Betty Hutton. Nina Foch, Joan Blondell and Anne Helm are all suspects in "Who Killed One-Half of Glory Lee?"

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Richard Burton will read either from Shakespeare or Churchill, also chat.

Saturday, May 9

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). MGM's 1954 all-star Executive Suite with William Holden, Nina Foch, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Fredric March, Shelley Winters, Walter Pidgeon, Dean Jagger, Paul Douglas and Louis Calhern.

Sunday, May 10

DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The first of two programs on the history of folk singing in America.

DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 2-2:20 p.m.). A film made in Israel on archaeology.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Fighting E," a tribute to both aircraft carriers named Enterprise, World War II's heroic conventional version and the new nuclear-powered successor.

WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Another sample of Disney's wonderful way with animals--this time elephants, shown both live on location at Angkor Wat and in animation drawn by the Disney Studios.

Monday, May 11

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A repeat of the documentary on movie vamps, flappers, sirens and glamour girls.

Tuesday, May 12

COMBAT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Guest stars are Eddie Albert and Alida Valli.

THE CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A preview of the May 15 Oregon primary.

THEATER

HAMLET. Witty, virile, supremely intelligent, Richard Burton's Hamlet is a masterful prince of language, though never quite the fallen prince of tragedy.

HIGH SPIRITS. A house was never haunted by so blithe a spirit as Tammy Grimes, and Bea Lillie is the comic conjurer who brings her back to earth to tempt her husband and torture his second wife.

FUNNY GIRL. Singing, loving, wheedling, Barbra Streisand is a shower of bright lights as she re-creates Comedienne Fan ny Brice's star-crossed career.

ANY WEDNESDAY. As sunny and as teary as a fickle April day, Sandy Dennis makes the mistressing game just slightly more complicated than doll-housekeeping.

DYLAN. Alec Guinness plays Dylan Thomas on his last U.S. reading tour, his humor biting but not bitter, his heart in neither his life nor his poetry.

HELLO, DOLLY! Cast as a matchmaker, Carol Channing dangles her gay, carrot-topped self in front of a stuffy moneybags (David Burns) who is slow off the mark. Gower Champion's dancers set a brisk pace for the chase.

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. As a fast-talking TV producerdirector, Robert Preston gives a sly, light touch to a play full of caustic mass-media mockery and plotting.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford bring to an early married life, dollops of humor and bright good looks.

Off Broadway

THE BLOOD KNOT. Two half brothers-joined in kinship, disjunctively opposite in color--prey on each other's weaknesses, but stay together in a communion of spirit that is full of laughter, envy, good intent and deep fears.

AFTER THE FALL. Angry and autobiographical, Arthur Miller's play questions the limits of responsibility, and details tormenting relationships with friends, family and wives.

RECORDS

Folk Music

HEATHER AND GLEN (Tradition). Folk singers in Aberdeenshire and the Hebrides tell their tales, most often laments--for James MacPherson, dangling from the gallows when his pardon arrives; for William Chisholm. the young husband who died for Prince Charlie in 1746. There are also work songs. Gentle Lady is sung to the rhythmic accompaniment of milk squirting into a pail. It would be hard for any cow to resist Kate Nicholson crooning: "Ruddy-faced and smooth-cheeked, gentle lady, you are my dear one. The calves have sucked, O gentle lady." The real thing by real folk, collected and selected by Alan Lomax and two Scottish experts.

ADVENTURES FOR 12-STRING, 6-STRING AND BANJO (Elektra). Leadbelly used to be about the only fellow to play the 12-string guitar, but now even the boy next door is learning the strums. One of the dozen new records featuring the instrument is this extravaganza of plucking by Richard Rosmini, who plays everything in sight. The 12-string alone sounds like a guitar accompanying itself, but here Rosmini uses three other guitarists, plus Jazz Bassist Red Mitchell picking away stylishly at the likes of John Hardy, Jelly Roll, St. James Drag. No singing.

JUDY COLLINS #3 (Elektra). Joan Baez is still queen, but many of her subjects owe allegiance to Collins as well. Her voice is less pure, but it has body and conviction, and she has a good repertory of songs that are more indigenous to Greenwich Village than her native Colorado. In her third and best album, she sings Dylan and Seeger, but her stopper is a haunting new ballad about an ancient injustice done to a girl named Anathea, in bed, of all places.

EVENING BELLS AND OTHER RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS (Capitol). Dark nostalgia dished out by Metropolitan Opera tenor, Nicolai Gedda, with the help of the Cappella Russian Male Chorus and some balalaikas. "Gedda was born in Sweden of a Russian father, and he sings of the snow-swept steppes, the willows and the fields of rye like one of the dispossessed.

THE VOICE OF AFRICA (RCA Victor) is Miriam Makeba, late of South Africa and also dispossessed. The music here is not only African: there is a taste of gospel, a pop tune and even opera (the Willow Song from Otello). Makeba can manage them all, but her heart is in the songs of her own people, like Ohude and Uyadela. "When all the beasts of the earth had gone to fetch their tails," she sings in Zulu, "the rock rabbit had long given up all hope, hence the absence of his tail."

CINEMA

THE ORGANIZER. Playing a sad, scraggly revolutionary who leads an unsuccessful strike of textile workers, Marcello Mastroianni sews up his status as the international cinema's most versatile leading man.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. The incredible adventures and immoderate amours of Agent 007, alias James Bond, alias Actor Sean Connery, lead to Istanbul in this uproarious parody of Ian Fleming's fiction.

THE NIGHT WATCH. Five men seek an underground escape route from a Paris prison--a commonplace theme developed with uncommon skill in this taut French thriller.

BECKET. A superior film spectacle based on Jean Anouilh's superior drama has a prodigally talented cast headed by Richard Burton as England's 12th century religious martyr and Peter O'Toole as Henry II.

THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT introduces Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth as a pair of antic New York juveniles scotching the adult delinquency of a lecherous concert pianist (Peter Sellers).

THE SERVANT. Hellfire gleams through the tea-party facade of Dirk Bogarde, the conniving "gentleman's gentleman" who serves up Director Joseph Losey's message about class distinction in Britain with a dash of bitters.

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The knowing eye of Director Vittoria De Sica scans Italy's greatest natural wonder, Sophia Loren, whose Vesuvian warmth bubbles through this three-part comedy co-starring the ubiquitous Mastroianni.

THE SILENCE is celestial, the passion terrestrial in Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama of life among the damned. Pleading humanity's case are a lesbian, a nymphomaniac and a child.

DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott and Peter Sellers detonate the bitter laughs in Stanley Kubrick's comedy of terrors.

THE GUEST. In this film version of Harold Pinter's drama The Caretaker, Donald Pleasence stunningly re-creates his stage role as a grubby, bigoted old derelict.

BOOKS

Best Reading

SELECTED POEMS OF HERMAN MELVILLE, edited by Hennig Cohen. The finest of U.S. novelists was not an outstanding poet, but there are enough good poems in this chronological sampling, such as the final lines of Billy Budd, to make it more than just a literary curiosity.

IN HIS OWN WRITE, by John Lennon. The oldest Beatle ("He's the arty one") explains his startling collection of post-Joycean jabberwocky: "As far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready." His readers shrdlu too.

THE SPIRE, by William Golding. Overriding church, chapter and parish, a saintly dean drives his architect to build a huge, prayer-envisioned stone spire on the shaky foundations of his cathedral, and then realizes on his deathbed that his spiritual inspiration was probably only worldly ambition. A metaphysical summation of his four previous novels (Lord of the Flies, Free Fall, etc.), William Golding's medieval fable is a provocative and often brilliant statement of the helpless and iniquitous nature of man.

DREAMTIGERS, by Jorge Luis Borges. Going blind, Argentina's greatest writer has turned inward to the mirrors of his mind, and in this slight volume of poems and parables has dreamed himself into multiplicity of recollections and roles.

STRANGERS ON A BRIDGE, by James B. Donovan. As onetime defense counsel for Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel, Lawyer Donovan reviews the trials and recounts his role in the subsequent spy-thriller negotiations that led to a dramatic moment of the cold war--the exchange of Colonel Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Powers.

FLOOD, by Robert Penn Warren. With his considerable talent for narrative and sense of place, the author of All the King's Men observes Fiddlersburg, Tenn., in the strange, revealing twilight that precedes the town's disappearance beneath the flooding waters of a federal dam project.

THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. This second novel about the Wapshot family is related to but very different from the earlier Wapshot Chronicle: the Chronicle's traditional way of life is not lost, but becomes a vision in the Scandal that makes more bearable the absurdities of the improvised present.

KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, by Shirley Ann Grau. Miscegenation, political vengeance and racial hatred unto the third generation are the Faulknerian themes, but Author Grau writes with such quiet directness that the violence serves to define, by contrast, a deeper sense of order and love.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week)

2. The Group, McCarthy (2)

3. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (3)

4. The Deputy, Hochhuth (6)

5. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (8)

6. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (4)

7. The Martyred, Kim (7)

8. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (9)

9. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (5)

10. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West

NONFICTION 1. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (1)

2. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (2)

3. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (3)

4. The Naked Society, Packard (5)

5. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (4)

6. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (7)

7. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (6)

8. The Great Treasury Raid, Stern

9. When the Cheering Stopped, Smith (8)

10. That Special Grace, Bradlee

*All times E.D.T.

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