On Broadway
TELEVISION
Wednesday, October 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The latest guest-villain is Vincent Price, who plays Egghead in "An Egg Grows in Gotham." Robin and friend scramble his fowl plans to take over the city.
CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Master of Memories invites a collage of comics as his guests: Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Johnny Carson, Jack Carter, Bill Cosby, Wally Cox, Bill Dana, Jimmy Durante, Shecky Greene, Don Rickles, Rowan and Martin, Soupy Sales, Dick Shawn and Jonathan Winters.
STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Confession" details 32 shattering hours in the lives of Police Detective Hammond (Arthur Kennedy) and Carl Boyer (Brandon de Wilde) a college student who is charged with the murder of his sweetheart when he survives their suicide pact.
Thursday, October 20
JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When three captured Allied generals are transported across Europe by their German captors, the Jericho team is sent to rescue them in "The Big Brass Contraband."
THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS 9-11 p..m.). Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds co-star in The Rat Race (1960), Garson Kanin's story of life and love midst Manhattan's maelstrom.
Friday, October 21
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Illya Kuryakin. (David Mc-Callum) nearly takes the deep six in a sea of soapsuds when he turns beatnik to trace the source of a gas that causes its victims to hiccough to death.
WE ARE NOT ALONE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).
Edward P. Morgan narrates this special based on Walter Sullivan's book, which explores the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. Among the guests are Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Harold Urey, M.I.T.'s Dr. Philip Morrison and NASA's Dr. William Pickering.
Saturday, October 22
THE SMITHSONIAN (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.).
"The Flight of the Spirit of St. Louis and Friendship 7" details the historic flights of Charles Lindbergh and John Glenn.
ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.).
Why birds migrate, how they know where to go. when to start and how to find their way are questions answered in "Travelers on the Wing." hosted by Dr. Loren Eiseley.
GUNSMOKE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Darren McGavin guests as a hired gun who sets out to ventilate Marshal Dillon, but Cupid wings him first and he falls for a Chinese girl (France Nuyen).
Sunday, October 23
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.).
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon on the firing line.
ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, p m ) US. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg fields the questions.
CAMPAIGN '66 (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Mike Wallace reports on "The Democrats.' In 1966 the Great Society meets its first election test and the program will focus n some of the 48 freshmen Congressmen who rode L.B.J.'s coattails to Washington in 1964, including one who is All the Way With LB.J. and another who calls himself a Bobby Kennedy man.
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 "Tanglewood-Music Under the Trees" takes a look at the Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood, Mass, with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Composers Aaron Copland and Gunther Schuller; Sopranos Phyllis Curtin and Jane Marsh; and Pianist Grant Johannesen.
Monday, October 24
LUCY IN LONDON (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Anthony Newley takes Lucille Ball on a "Special economy guided tour" of London by motorcycle sidecar in this musical comedy special.
TO SAVE A SOLDIER (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). An ABC News color documentary chronicling the work of helicopter pilots, doctors and flight nurses who daily risk their lives evacuating and treating the wounded in Viet Nam.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE by Frank Marcus is an abrasive English comedy of cruelty about the games Lesbians play. Beryl Reid, Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers are expert and subtle as three witches and their vivid interpretations of the foolish and servile, the vain and the vile, stir up a cauldron of laughter.
MAME is spangles and feathers and clinking glasses from Prohibition cocktail parties. Mame was Patrick Dennis' Aunt. Mame was a funny book, a funny movie and a funny play. Mame is now a pleasing musical. Angela Lansbury is a pleasing Mame.
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The difficulty of severing the skeins to one's past is the theme in Brian Friel's delicately woven tapestry of a young Irishman saying farewell to his homeland.
SWEET CHARITY is all sincerity, one of those few foolish females who don't know that honesty may be the worst policy. In an inventively staged musical, GwenVerdon is a dance-hall doxy who is too direct to be devious, then wonders why she can t find the best bait to hook her man.
CACTUS FLOWER is a sex comedy from France that asks whether a don-juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) should ask his adoring assistant (Lauren Bacall) to be his accomplice in a plot against his mistress Would Samson ask Delilah to trim his hair?
WAIT A MINIM! There are two sets of stars in this musical revue from Johannesburg: a talented octet of young South African satirists, dancers and singers, and the mbira, timbila, kalimba, tampura drone, and other jungle instruments so primitive they are supersophisticated, so ancient they seem avantgarde.
RECORDS
Orchestral
HANS WERNER HENZE: FIVE SYMPHONIES (2 LPs: Deutsche Grammophon). The modern symphony, says Henze, tends to be either "a replica, an elegy or an echo," and he illustrates the point with his work, which is reminiscent of Stravinsky. The 40-year-old composer's symphonies are nonetheless enjoyable and full of theatrical flair, as might be expected from a man who has written such successful operas as King Stag and Elegy for Young Lovers. Here the first three works, dating from his early 20s, provide atmosphere but no action. The fourth is richer, unwinding in one movement from gentle plonks and smoothly flowing melodies to crashing cascades of sound. The fifth, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its first season at Lincoln Center, begins bright and brassy and then reverts to Henze's characteristic lyricism. The Berlin Philharmonic is conducted by the composer.
MAHLER: SEVENTH SYMPHONY (2 LPs; Columbia). This seldom-performed symphony is nicknamed "Song of Night" because its three middle movements are shadowy, dreamlike, predominantly sinister. Even the opening allegro seems to dissolve in twilight, and not till the fifth movement is there a bright, wild awakening after all the murky moodiness. Leonard Bernstein leads the New York Philharmonic with eerie tension and, finally, abandon.
HINDEMITH: CONCERT MUSIC FOR STRINGS AND BRASS (Seraphim). Conducted by the composer with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Concert Music shows Hindemith's preoccupation with rhythmic angularity and instrumental color--a jaunty string quartet bouncing along on a sea of brass. On side 2, Hindemith conducts his Symphony in B Flat for Concert Band, with soft woodwinds tempering the brass.
SMETANA: MY COUNTRY (2 LPs; Crossroads). In a burst of patriotic pride, the 50-year-old Czech composer began this cycle of six symphonic poems dedicated to the city of Prague. He was deaf by the time they were first performed together in 1882, but his work was triumphantly acclaimed. The second tone poem, celebrating the River Moldau, has become world-famous. It takes its place here alongside musical descriptions of the Valley of Sarka the town Tabor, the hill Blanik, and other landmarks in the big romantic work performed with spirit and affection by Karel Ancerl and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
TCHAIKOVSKY: SELECTIONS FROM SLEEPING BEAUTY AND SWAN LAKE (London). By now one might assume that everyone has the Sleeping Beauty of his dreams but Leopold Stokowski and the New Philharmonia must be reckoned with--for they paint a huge, lush canvas that is reproduced larger than life by Phase 4 stereo. Both Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake are played less for ballet than for Technicolored dreaming.
CINEMA
THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY. The heroine of this winsome French film is a cheeky septuagenarian who, wins a new lease on life when her husband dies. In the title role, French Stage Star Sylvie, 81, develops a yen for TV, movies, horse races and icecream sundaes, ends up spending 18 brief but glorious months in self-indulgence before death overtakes her.
CRAZY QUILT. Director John Korty fashions a modern fable about a marriage between a realist (Tom Rosqui) and a romantic (Ina Mela) who learn after ten years of mutual misunderstanding to accept their differences.
FANTASTIC VOYAGE. In this highly entertaining science-fiction adventure, five minuscule crewmates, traveling in a teenyweeny nuclear-powered submarine, chart a hazardous course through man's circulatory system. After several unexpected stopovers in the lung and inner ear, the crew reaches its goal: the human brain.
THE WRONG BOX. Hidden somewhere among the plot machinations of this Victorian spoof is a wrong box, upon which most of the action hinges. The box is a coffin--unoccupied--although Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John Mills and Ralph Richardson are more than anxious to find a suitable corpse to fill it.
BOOKS
Best Reading
TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. The unfailing Burgess wit, craftsmanship and intellectual curiosity combine to bring off a first-rate eschatological spy novel.
THE SUN KING, by Nancy Mitford. As an ornithologist studying the noble birds at Louis XlV's Court of Versailles, Author Mitford is more interested in song and plumage than strict biology, but her illustrated portrait of that resplendent monarch is a tidy job of dissection.
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A surrealistic puzzler--or possibly a parable--about goatish activities on a far-out college campus that represents the modern world.
THE FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A Jew in Czarist Russia was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy; it was a cause celebre out of which Malamud has constructed a memorable tale of one man's nightmare.
THE ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. The nervous neutralism of the cold war provides Amis with a theme for this slightly outrageous suspense story.
THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, by Robert Crichton. A joyously funny fable about Italian villagers who have a ball keeping their precious vino out of the hands of the Germans during World War II.
THE BIRDS FALL DOWN, by Rebecca West. In her first novel in ten years, Dame Rebecca examines that most unscrupulous of all traitors, the double agent--although she does not add substantially to readers' understanding of the meaning of treason.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)
2. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (4)
3. Tai-Pan, Clavell (2)
4. Capable of Honor, Drury (5)
5. The Adventurers, Robbins (3)
6. Giles Goat-Boy, Barth (6)
7. The Fixer, Malamud (7)
8. The Source, Michener (8)
9. All in the Family, O'Connor
10. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman (10)
NONFICTION
1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)
2. Rush to Judgment, Lane (2)
3. Everything But Money, Levenson (3)
4. Games People Play, Berne (7)
5. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (5)
6. With Kennedy, Salinger (4)
7. Flying Saucers--Serious Business, Edwards (9)
8. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (8)
9. The Search for Amelia Earhart, Goerner (10)
10. The Last Battle, Ryan
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