Wednesday, September 29 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Guests include Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beatrice Lillie, Dinah Shore and Andy Williams. Color.
I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In "Carry Me Back to Old Tsing Tao," Bill Cosby and Robert Gulp star as American intelligence agents asked to return $1,000,000 in back taxes to the U.S. for a Chinese-American agent. Color.
Thursday, September 30 THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Notorious Landlady (1962), with Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire.
Friday, October 1 THE WILD, WILD WEST (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In "The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth," Michael Dunn is featured as the dwarf head of an outlaw gang, whose principal ambition it is to take over half the state of California to form a model kingdom for children.
Saturday, October 2 N.C.A.A. COLLEGE FOOTBALL (NBC, 4:30-7 p.m.). Washington v. Ohio State at Seattle, Wash. Color.
THE TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). In "Notes on a Spanish Prisoner," Danny O'Brien (Peter Falk) defends Oliver Maxwell (Buddy Hackett).
Sunday, October 3 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Chet Huntley reports on urban and suburban blight and on the deterioration of natural resources. Color.
THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Singer Tom Jones and Comic Jackie Vernon are guests.
Monday, October 4 RUN FOR YOUR LIFE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A young man (Ben Gazzara) with only a short time to live is caught behind the Iron Curtain. Color.
Tuesday, October 5 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Henry Moore: Man of Form"--the story of the famous British sculptor and his recently completed work, a two-piece reclining figure designed for the plaza at New York's Lincoln Center.
RECORDS
Folk
BIG BILL BROONZY AND PETE SEEGER IN CONCERT (Verve Folkways). The two folk greats met at Northwestern University one autumn evening in 1956, just at the start of the great campus folk revival, and sat down to tell the kids-- and the tape recorder -- all about it. Broonzy, then 59 (he died in 1958), recalled the days when he and Bessie Smith sang in Mississippi, punctuating his anecdotes with his guitar. So good are the songs (Green Corn, Back water Blues, Why Don't You Come Home, Bill Bailey, Midnight Special) that, after the first interlude of conversation, the talk is distracting.
INTRODUCING THE BEERS FAMILY (Columbia). The Beers family of Montana--father, mother, teen-age daughter--is dedicated to pure folk music, mostly Irish and Scotch songs taught to Robert Beers by his pioneer grandfather. In addition to the fiddle, guitar, dulcimer and psaltery, the Beerses work the "limberjacks" (jointed wooden blocks that are clapped together like castanets, popular in colonial times) and "beat the straws" by banging on dulcimer strings with a spear of buffalo grass. The most beautiful of these seldom-heard instruments is the ethereal psaltery; the record stopper is Evelyne Beers singing an old Scotch ballad Dumbarton's Drums, while the sound of the psaltery sways like silver leaves in the wind.
WHO'S THAT KNOCKING? (Verve Folkways). Hazel Dickens and Alice Foster blast out vintage bluegrass-country songs with fierce, raucous energy. The youngsters, almost the only successful girl duo in the field, avoid some of the slicker sounds that come out of Nashville and stick to the old driving hillbilly beat.
BLEECKER AND MACDOUGAL (Electra). Fred Neil plants his boots squarely atop a manhole at this famed Greenwich Village intersection and wails of the lot of beats and poets. But with a Western sound? Preposterous perhaps, yet Neil manages a tenuous east-west mixing of cowboy and Dylan folk-rock. The songs are all his own.
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND (Columbia). The Mcrmon Tabernacle Choir and the Philadelphia Orchestra put spurs to the war horses of folk repertory (Shenandoah, Sweet Betsy from Pike, I Wonder as I Wander). The renditions necessarily lack the spark of individual interpretation, but both Chorus Master Richard Condie and Conductor Eugene Ormandy find the essence of each song and project both melody and mood.
LONG JOHN'S BLUES (Ascot). Long John Baldry represents the blues division in Britain's takeover of folk, rock and virtually all the music the U.S. used to export exclusively. Gravel-voiced and completely loose, Baldry favors the sound of Memphis and New Orleans and practically duplicates it.
CINEMA
HELP! The new ring on Ringo's finger puts him in double jeopardy--from a couple of mad scientists and a band of Oriental cutthroats. The result is a wild spin cycle of sight gags and exotic locations. The Beatles really haven't much to do except romp along with the frantic action.
RAPTURE. Patricia Gozzi--three years older than she was in Sundays and Cybele and just as wise--blazes her way through a dark and stormy story about a lonely child (herself), her bitter father (Melvyn Douglas), and a feral servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom), whose lives are changed by the sudden appearance of a handsome escaped convict (Dean Stockwell).
DARLING. A disenchanted look at a jet-set success story, in which Julie Christie finds the room at the top is always a bedroom--and often a bore.
THE IPCRESS FILE. A British secret agent, played by Newcomer Michael Caine, is embroiled in Bond-like situations, though he is not at all the type who would be welcomed in Blade's--even with M. He makes an engaging sleuth nonetheless.
THE KNACK. The off-Broadway comedy hit about a virgin from out of town and three sex-obsessed young men is turned by Director Richard Lester into an energetic field day won by Rita Tushingham.
BOOKS
Best Reading
GOETHE, by Richard Friedenthal. This first biography in more than 20 years looks at the human side of the great German writer. Though sometimes merciless in dissecting Goethe's follies, Friedenthal succeeds in showing how his strengths and vagaries combined to provide the works of consummate imagination that rank Goethe with Shakespeare and Dante.
ONE OF THE FOUNDERS, by P. H. Newby. This deft, witty novel about a meek man who must learn to hate recalls the searing, epigrammatic satires of Henry Green.
MRS. JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner was one Boston dowager who sensed the possibilities of an impregnable social position: with Bernard Berenson at her elbow she shopped Europe for a great art collection and used the Back Bay as a theater in which she played roles from Persian princess to the Bohemian girl. A very readable biography.
LANGUAGE ON VACATION, by Dmitri A. Borgmann. The author is a word fanatic of the most ingenious order, producing a compendium of resolutely useless, teasingly fascinating information about anagrams, antigrams, palindromes. How many people can look at Satan and see Santa?
THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM, by Brian Moore. A tough, uncompromising novel about a very young man who learns the value of self-respect by daring to meet the crises caused by an air raid during World War II. Author Moore (The Luck of Ginger Coffey) casts a cold eye on society but warms it with Irish wit.
SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfred Sheed. Hounded by his wife and bored to death by the suburb of Bloodbury, Sheed's hero sets out to discover the world of the beats. He does, and is lucky to escape, gratefully, with his sanity intact.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Source, Michener (1 last week) 2. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (5) 3. Hotel, Hailey (2) 4. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (3) 5. The Green Berets, Moore (4) 6. The Looking Glass War, le Carre (6) 7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7) 8. The Ambassador, West (9) 9. Thomas, Mydans 10. Night of Camp David, Knebel (8)
NONFICTION
1. Intern, Doctor X (1) 2. The Making of the President, 1964, White (2) 3. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (3) 4. Games People Play, Berne (6) 5. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (4) 6. Manchild in the Promised Land, Brown (9) 7. Markings, Hammarskjold (5) 8. Never Call Retreat, Carton (7) 9. Report to Greco, Kazantzakis 10. My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, Lincoln
* All times E.D.T.
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