TELEVISION

Wednesday, January 31

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* Elizabeth the Queen, Maxwell Anderson's 1930 tragedy with Dame Judith Anderson as Elizabeth I and Charlton Heston as Lord Essex, her lover.

OF MICE AND MEN (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The TV version of John Steinbeck's novella of migratory farm life during the Depression, featuring George Segal, Nicol Williamson and Joey Heatherton.

Friday, February 2

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray hold the keys to The Apartment (1960).

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The fellow who made a mint writing about his adventures as a professional amateur sportsman now takes up tails and triangle for an insider's view of the workings of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra: "The Secret Musical Life or George Plimpton."

Saturday, February 3

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Second semifinal bout in the elimination tournament to find a new heavyweight boxing champion: Thad Spencer v. Jerry Quarry, live from Oakland, Calif.

THE BOB HOPE DESERT GOLF CLASSIC (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Such pros as Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus along with a flock of golfing celebrities join Bob in his ninth annual tourney, live from Palm Desert, Calif. Final round on Sunday (4:306 p.m.).

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961) bows on TV with Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta and Juanita Hall.

Sunday, February 4

FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Part 1 of four general discussions on the question: "Is Peace Possible?" Correspondent Edwin Newman talks to Anthropologist Dr. Ashley Montagu on whether man's ability to settle his differences through argument rather than force can apply to nations as well.

THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Singer Jimmy Dean hunts Alaska moose; Chicago White Soxers Gary Peters and Hoyt Wilhelm shoot pisingo (tree duck) in Colombia; Curt Gowdy and his sons fish for trout in Wyoming.

CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The season's premiere is Part 1 of Testadirapa, an Italian film about a 19th century youngster who lives an idyllic life until the authorities rule him a truant. Kukla, Fran and Ollie are hosts.

PREVIEW OF THE 1968 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The what and where of the tenth Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, including a look at the site and film footage of top Olympics contenders.

Tuesday, February 6 1968 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Taped highlights of the opening ceremonies, and first round of hockey competition: U.S. v. Czechoslovakia and U.S.S.R. v. Finland.

Check your local listings for date and time of these NET specials:

NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). U.S. premiere of a highly praised Russian film, The Lady with the Dog (1962), adapted from Anton Chekhov's short story.

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "No Harvest for the Reaper" graphically documents the exploitation of migrant workers on Long Island potato farms.

YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH. "The Big Tin Cup" examines the operation and management of such major nonsectarian fund-raising groups as the Tuberculosis Association and the National Health Council.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE is more a one-character study than a fully fleshed play. Australian Actress Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon as an Edinburgh teacher with sweeping fervors and fantasies, but Mrs. Jay Allen's adaptation of a novel by Muriel Spark is unfortunately becalmed.

THE HAPPY TIME is a soapsuds opera about a footloose, womanizing French Canadian photographer (Robert Goulet) who tries to find serenity and true love at home in his provincial birthplace. Goulet has charm and a powerful voice, though the banal, derivative score scarcely merits being sung out loud. Director-Choreographer Gower Champion can usually make any show move, but this clinker is phenomenally inert.

BEFORE YOU GO. The way of a modern man with a modern maid is surpassing strange, but Playwright Lawrence Holofcener has got it onstage in a wry, perceptive and tender two-character comedy. Marian Seldes and Gene Troobnick are unerringly funny and vulnerable as a contemporary couple fused not so much by the chemistry of love as by the mutual horrifying fear that they may be cultural dropouts.

STAIRCASE is a play about an odd couple who play the games people play. Eli Wallach and Milo O'Shea are matchlessly mated to their roles as a pair of aging homosexual barbers; yet even they cannot inject Charles Dyer's (Rattle of a Simple Man) domestic drama with enough voltage to keep it alight for two acts.

EXIT THE KING. Whatever comic spirit there was in Eugene Ionesco's play on death has been snuffed out in a static production by the APA. Richard Easton as King Berenger at the moment when he is facing death is a remnant-counter Lear, lacking in regal authority and wrapped in tattered melancholy.

THE SHOWOFF. The marrying process is always a mystery, but Playwright George Kelly's tightly corseted family cannot begin to understand how the youngest daughter could possibly pick a man whose every guffaw grates on the nerves and whose every word offends the sensibilities. Helen Hayes leads the APA in their gentle revival of the 1925 comedy.

PANTAGLEIZE is the third APA offering. Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode viewed history with an antic despair that spills over into this weirdly, wildly inventive play. Ellis Rabb plays the innocent Pantagleize, a puppet on the end of destiny's siring.

EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN is Edward Albee's version of the wicked world of U.S. suburbia. When the little woman (Barbara Bel Geddes) finds she needs more money, she goes to work on the side as a, well, you know, a lady of pleasure. Hubby (Barry Nelson) adjusts quickly after he finds out all the girls at the country club are doing it.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Shakespeare's duo may have been swinging students on the Wittenberg campus, but when Tom Stoppard tosses them into the midst of the intrigants of Elsinore, they seem to be two poor sophomores being hazed by a malevolent fraternity. The skillful dramatic interplay between Brian Murray and John Wood provokes laughter and evokes compassion, as they nimbly fence with each other and numbly face their fate.

Off Broadway

THE INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX and IT'S CALLED THE SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurdist love waltz between a boy and a girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as out of sheer desperate boredom, two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City.

YOUR OWN THING. The old plot of Twelfth Night slides surprisingly well into the with-it world of the kids of the '60s with their talk of sexual hang-ups and their his-and-her looks. Shakespeare's talented collaborator in this thoroughly delightful rock-musical is Writer-Director Donald Driver.

THE SONG OF THE LUSITANIAN BOGEY. Writing well below his Marat/Sade form, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist, not playing fair, in his tract against the evils of Portuguese colonialists in Africa. But the cast, members of the newly formed Negro Ensemble Company, infuses the evening with its own talent and humanity.

IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. The man who sacrifices his personal life and family concerns for the sake of his public career is no recent phenomenon. In a play written 2,400 years ago, Euripides, the most psychologically oriented of the classical tragedians, inspects the poisoned crop that Agamemnon sowed and reaped when his addled ambitions to win the Trojan War led him to offer up the life of his own daughter. Michael Cacoyannis' adept direction gives modern force to an ancient tale.

CINEMA

THE JUNGLE BOOK. This animated version of the children's classic may be a perverse introduction to Rudyard Kipling, but it is a nice way to remember the late Walt Disney; it is the last film he personally supervised.

SMASHING TIME. Lynn Redgrave and Rita Tushingham participate in this romp `a la mod, which has too much bashing to be smashing, as it substitutes claptrap slapstick for the once refined art of British comedy.

THE STRANGER. Italian Director Luchino Visconti's film follows the action of Albert Camus' novel with hardly a comma missing--and therein lie both its strength and its weakness. The action of the book eventually moves into the mind, and Visconti has not found a cinematic technique for translating the shift. Marcello Mastroianni plays the despairing hero.

IN COLD BLOOD. Truman Capote's non-fiction novel has, in the capable hands of Director Richard Brooks, become an excellent movie.

THE GRADUATE. Neither Director Mike Nichols nor a talented cast (Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross) can rescue this collegiate comedy of amours from a sophomore slump.

DR. DOLITTLE. The Hugh Lofting children's classic about a pleasingly plump physician who talks to animals has been transformed into a film about a lean ectomorph (Rex Harrison) who treats them with all the intimacy of a Harley Street internist ordering up a set of X rays.

BEDAZZLED. Two members of the wily Beyond the Fringe foursome play Faust and loose with an old theme as a meek short-order cook (Dudley Moore) sells his soul to the Devil (Peter Cook) in return for seven wishes.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. Wit and graceful prose make these speculations on the evolution of man an engaging and at times provocative reading experience.

THE THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time.

RIGHT & WRONG, by Paul Weiss and Jonathan Weiss, is the engaging result of several hours of tape-recorded discussion on ethics between a father and his son attempting to close the generation gap.

MAKING IT, by Norman Podhoretz. In this controversial quasi-autobiography, the literary critic and editor of Commentary tells of his scramble from the obscurity of a Brooklyn slum to a position of influence in the New York literary world.

THE DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES, by Mortimer J. Adler. The well-known philosopher and dialectician cogently defends man's unique nature against the encroachment of manlike machines.

THE BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. The second volume of the autobiography of Great Britain's former Prime Minister presents a judicious and highly readable account of the part he played in England's wartime government.

TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. The eccentricities and achievements of one of history's greatest literary artists, brought brilliantly to life in a monument to the craft of biography.

THE FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a passionately reasoned appeal to his countrymen, a leading German thinker urges them to build a nation on the precepts of individual responsibility and moral order.

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A vivid novel based on the diary of the man who led the unsuccessful bloody and bitter 1831 Negro slave revolt in Virginia.

WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. Using the techniques of psychological biography, the author draws a fascinating, sympathetic, and at times ironic, portrait of the 19th century English genius who excelled as a painter, poet, architect and interior designer.

FICTION

1. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (1 last week)

2. Topaz, Uris (2)

3. Christy, Marshall (5)

4. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (3)

5. The Instrument, O'Hara (6)

6. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (4)

7. Where Eagles Dare, MacLean (8)

8. The President's Plane Is Missing, Serling (10)

9. The Chosen, Potok (7)

10. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (9)

NONFICTION

1. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (1)

2. Our Crowd, Birmingham (2)

3. Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker (3)

4. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (5)

5. Memoirs: 1925-1950, Kennan (4)

6. Tolstoy, Troyat

7. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (6)

8. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (7)

9. Report from Iron Mountain, Lewin, ed. (8)

10. Incredible Victory, Lord (9)

-All times E.S.T.

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