Television

Wednesday, August 5 ESPIONAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Offbeat drama about the complicated marriage of a British agent and Russian spy. Anthony Quayle and Sian Phillips excel in the starring roles. Repeat.

Thursday, August 6

THE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of new summer series starring the nine folk singers who introduced hootenanny to the White House. The show is broadcast from the World's Fair. Color.

Friday, August 7

COLLEGE ALL-STAR GAME (ABC, 10 p.m. --conclusion). The country's top college stars meet the National Football League champion Chicago Bears at Chicago's Soldier Field. The all-stars have won nine out of 30 games with the league, last year downed the Green Bay Packers 20-17.

Saturday, August 8

NBC SPORTS SPECIAL (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Parachuting and sky diving with Jim Arender. Color.

THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ossie Davis stars in the story of a condemned killer. Repeat.

Sunday, August 9

DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Two Russian children take viewers to see their school and home, Lenin's tomb and the Kremlin Palace in the first of a two-part children's-eye tour of Moscow. Repeat.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The evolution of the western hero from William S. Hart and Tom Mix to Hopalong Cassidy and Marshal Matt Dillon. High Noon Producer Stanley Kramer will visit. Film clips will be shown from The Great Train Robbery (1903), The Covered Wagon (1923) and other western classics. Repeat.

Monday, August 10

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Repeat of the excellent intimate portrait of Film Star Bette Davis.

RECORDS

For Dancing

DANCE DISCOTHEQUE (Decca). A discotheque, of course, is a nightclub where one dances to records, and this is a record meant to sound like a discotheque--wheels within wheels. The contagious music by various bands shifts without breathing space from bossa nova to fox trot to mashed potato to merengue to frug.

HELLO, DOLLY! (RCA Victor) is not to be confused with 1) Louis Armstrong's Hello, Dolly! or 2) Ella Fitzgerald's Hello, Dolly! or 3) the cast album. This is a dance version of the Jerry Herman score by the so-called Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, led by Sam Donahue. An orchestra that carries on after its leader's death is called a ghost; this one is an exceptionally blithe spirit.

THE LESTER LANIN DANCE ALBUM (2 LPs; Epic). Lanin's bouncy orchestra is some times known as the "No Sex on the Dance Floor Band," and therefore is an ensemble both the debutante and her mother can agree on. This album provides Laninized music for 18 different dances, including many imports like the hula, tamoure, and ay-bo-le, as well as several varieties of the now famous steps introduced by Vaudeville Hoofer Harry Fox around 1913: the slow fox trot, the moderate society, and the society (which is fast).

WE COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT (Decca) is an album by Pianist Peter Duchin, Eddy's son, and his smoothly swinging band, which was launched two years ago at Manhattan's St. Regis, and has since played the frug for Luci Johnson in the White House. He plays pieces like Days of Wine and Roses and The Party's Over on the hesitating side, and sheathes Mack the Knife in satin.

DANCE CRAZE (Capitol) is a history seminar, with laconic directions on the jacket for twelve dances ranging from the waltz (played by Guy Lombardo) to the black bottom (Pee Wee Hunt), the calypso (Lord Flea), the tango (Nelson Riddle), and the creep (Stan Kenton). Giving instructions for the Charleston was too difficult and the jacket writer gave up, suggesting, Ask your mother.

THE GREAT ISHAM JONES AND HIS OR CHESTRA (RCA Victor). Mother can also explain about Isham Jones and his long reign as the sweetest of the sweet dance bands. Jones's own most famous song, I'll See You in My Dreams, is not included, but Darkness on the Delta, The Blue Room, and For All We Know are among these reissues from the early '30s. The sound of the silky saxes is surprisingly faithful.

SWIM WITH THE GO-GO'S (RCA Victor). Any rock 'n' roll will do for the swim, the new twist on the twist involving free-style arm motions. Most teen-agers still do the swim and almost everything else to the music of the Beatles, but the three young Go-Go's make a good pitch for swimming to their slow-rolling nautical numbers like Peek-A-Boo Swimsuit and They Call Him Chicken of the Sea.

SQUARE DANCES (MacGregor). Red River Valley, Solomon Levi, Oh Johnny, Turkey in the Straw, Red Wing and other classics with Fenton ("Jonesy") Jones as the caller. Jonesy's instructions are melodious and comparatively easy to follow, intended for initiates into these arcane rites, e.g., "Box the flea," and "Allemande left with a high tuck a shaw/Take a little bow with your mother-in-law."

CINEMA

CARTOUCHE. In Director Philippe de Broca's carefree parody of a period saga, Jean-Paul Belmondo is the Gallic, sword-swinging Robin Hood who robs from the rich, gives to the poor, and keeps Claudia Cardinale for himself.

THAT MAN FROM RIO. Fighting off mad scientists, crocodiles and poisoned darts, Belmondo strikes again in Director de Broca's faster--and even funnier--spoof of Hollywood action melodramas.

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS. An Indian girl (Celia Kaye) and her dog cheerfully share an island exile in a film rich with charm, intelligence and taste.

THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. At a sunny re-sort for shady people, Director John Huston guides Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner through some oddly exciting sessions of group therapy devised by Playwright Tennessee Williams.

A SHOT IN THE DARK. Peter Sellers, as Inspector Clouseau of the Surete, rarely gets his man but continually gets laughs while pursuing a seductive murder suspect (Elke Sommer) from corpse to corpse.

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. Young love becomes a savage Sicilian nightmare in a sometimes wildly farcical, sometimes deeply affecting tragicomedy by Director Pietro Germi (Divorce--Italian Style).

ZULU. A band of British redcoats faces 4,000 proud Zulu warriors in a bloody battle film in the grand carry-on-lads tradition of Four Feathers and Gunga Din.

THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. This massive song-and-dancer based on the Broadway musical owes nearly all its buoyancy to a raucous, free-style performance by Debbie Reynolds as the rich mountain girl who yearns to make a splash in Denver society.

MAFIOSO. Back to Sicily, where Director Alberto Lattuada fills the background with some gloriously garlicky slices of provincial life while Comedian Alberto Sordi struggles soberly with the insidious Mafia.

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this cheeky, often superlative British satire.

THE ORGANIZER. Marcello Mastroianni is superb as a scraggly revolutionary in Director Mario Monicelli's vivid, warmly human drama about a 19th century textile strike in Turin.

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The ubiquitous Mastroianni with Sophia Loren in three delightful modern fables directed by Vittorio De Sica.

THE SERVANT. Promoting country matters in a smart London town house, Dirk Bogarde gives a highly polished performance as a vicious "gentleman's gentleman" who corrupts his master.

THE SILENCE. Two women and a child travel to a seemingly godforsaken city that is the geographical center of this dark allegory by Ingmar Bergman.

BOOKS

Best Reading

EUGENE ONEGIN, translation and commentary in four volumes by Vladimir Nabokov. Polylingual, and a poet in his own right, Novelist-Scholar Nabokov (Pale Fire) has translated Alexander Pushkin's remarkable 19th century novel-in-verse with a sense of accuracy and range of meaning closer to the original Russian than any previous version. Nabokov's supplementary volumes of notes provide the amusing, exasperating and always impressive sight of the crusty Nabokov literary personality in action.

THE OYSTERS OF LOCMARIAQUER, by Eleanor Clark. By weaving history, topography, marine biology and lyrical gastronomy around -the arduous everyday lives of the French seacoast villagers who tend and harvest the Ostrea edulis, Author Clark has written a book-length monograph on the world's most prized oyster with the same beguiling erudition that characterized her Rome and a Villa.

SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, by Ken Kesey. The author's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, took place in an insane asylum and proposed the paradox that the only thing more intolerable to lesser men than the success of a good man is his defeat. This second novel, which repeats the same theme in a larger setting, is less effective for the added dimensions, yet is exuberant and brawling as the Pacific Northwest lumbering country it describes.

THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN, by Louis Auchincloss. A writer of urbane bestselling novels about Manhattan society focuses down on a single individual to produce his best work to date, an analysis of a legendary and absolute ruler of an exclusive New England boys' school.

TWO NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. In these two lightly plotted and wickedly brilliant novellas about a New Year's Eve amorous adventure and the about-face of a Lesbian schoolmistress, Novelist Brophy displays the elegant artifices and tricks of style of a latter-day Ronald Firbank.

THE FAR FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. A posthumous selection of the poems Roethke wrote during the last seven years of his life celebrate movingly and prophetically "the last pure stretch of joy, the dire dimension of a final thing."

JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. A voluminous, fascinating historical novel, well researched, yet remaining oddly dispassionate and at one remove from the vibrant and youthful Roman emperor whose turbulent, 18-month reign marked the last conflict in the Western world between pagan Hellenism and early Christianity.

A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind, inside reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outerworld of fame.

THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carre. Two early detective novels reissued. A Murder of Quality is a sound puzzle about the murder of a science teacher's wife at an English public school. Call for the Dead is a more conventional thriller, concerning a chain of deaths linked to an East German spy ring, interesting as a rough draft for the literate and expert Spy Who Came In from the Cold.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week) 2. Julian, Vidal (4) 3. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (5) 4.Armageddon, Uris (3) 5. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (2) 6. The 480, Burdick (10) 7. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (7) 8. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss 9. The Spire, Golding (6) 10. The Group, McCarthy (8)

NON FICTION

1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (2) 2. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (1) 3. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (4) 4. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (3) 5. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (5) 6. Harlow, Schulman (6) 7. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (8) 8 A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (9) 9. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (10) 10. My Years with General Motors, Sloan

-All times E.D.T.

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