Friday, Jul. 26, 1968

Thursday, July 25

DEAN MARTIN PRESENTS THE GOLDDIGGERS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).*Variety series based on tunes and events of the 1930s. This week Joey Heatherton, Frank Sinatra Jr. and Paul Lynde join Deano in a tribute to Bing Crosby.

Saturday, July 27

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National Skydiving Championship, Tucson, Ariz.; Carting Championship, Vevey, Switzerland; International Surfing Championship, Makaha Beach, Hawaii.

Sunday, July 28

LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "We Will Speak, Who Will Answer?" Fresno, Calif., is the subject of the fourth in a series of broadcasts examining ways in which various cities are trying to resolve problems of racial prejudice, unemployment, housing and inadequate education.

TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). "White Racism and Black Education." Jonathan Kozol, schoolteacher and author of the award-winning Death at an Early Age, leads a discussion on the effects of white prejudice on Negro education, specifically in the public school system of his native Boston.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Cities of the Future." Pollution, congestion and slums threaten to reduce America's urban centers to a vast wasteland. Walter Cronkite reports.

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Ed's guests include Wayne and Shuster, the Young Americans, Myron Cohen and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.

Tuesday, July 30

GRAMBLING COLLEGE: 100 YARDS TO GLORY (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). ABC Sportscaster Howard Cosell's brilliant documentary on the small, all-Negro Louisiana school that has turned into one of the country's most fertile spawning grounds for pro football players. Dedicated to Coach Eddie Robinson. Repeat.

SHOWTIME (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). British Comedian Dave Allen hosts an international variety hour. Guests include U.S. Comedian Frank Fontaine, British Vocalist Dusty Springfield and Comedian Max Wall, a Moroccan balancing act, Irish dancers and an Australian yodeler.

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Freud (1963), starring the late Montgomery Clift in one of his major roles. John Houston's intelligent direction dominates, though the picture is inadequate in detail and at times quaintly elementary.

CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Of Black America." A documentary on Negro achievements in sports and music. The fifth in a seven-part series on the Negro in America.

Check local listings for date and time of this NET special:

INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE. Journalists from around the world report on civil war in Nigeria, the gypsy problem in England, pornography in Denmark, spas in Germany, driving in Russia.

THEATER

Straw Hat

The sound of music will waft from many a playhouse, band shell or barn this week.

BRUNSWICK, ME., Music Theater offers a tuneful tour of Dogpatch in L'il Abner.

KENNEBUNKPORT, ME., Playhouse lowers the gangplank for The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

SKOWHEGAN, ME., Lakewood Playhouse. April Shawhan is a taxi dancer who can't get anywhere with love in Sweet Charity.

COHASSET, MASS., South Shore Music Circus. Rex's son Noel Harrison is H. G. Wells's Kipps, a cockney lad who goes from rags to riches to rags, starting with only Half a Sixpence.

EAST HADDAM, CONN., Goodspeed Opera House revives Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro.

MOUNT GRETNA, PA., Gretna Playhouse takes a look at a loser. Pal Joey.

GAITHERSBURG, MD., Shady Grove Music Fair. The Fanlasticks weaves a web of whimsy, with Howard Keel and Anna Maria Alberghetti.

OLNEY, MD., Olney Theater has the women up in arms in The Coldest War of All, a new musical version of Lysistrata.

ATLANTA, Municipal Theater. Barbara Cook yodels and waltzes through The Sound of Music.

TAMPA, FLA., Star Musicals. Marion Marlowe learns her English and gets her man in My Fair Lady.

ST. LOUIS, Municipal Opera. Ethel Merman is the lady ambassador in Call Me Madam.

KANSAS CITY, MO., Starlight Theater proves that there's more than one way to catch a "feller" as Kaye Stevens stars in Annie Get Your Gun.

MILWAUKEE, Melody Top Theater. Robert Q. Lewis urges Take Me Along.

INDIANAPOLIS, Star Light Musical. Bob Horton wins at the Pajama Game.

BEMIDJI, MINN., Paul Bunyan Playhouse takes the nostalgic route with Peg O' My Heart.

DALLAS, Slimmer Musicals. Van Johnson gets telephonitis in Bells Are Ringing.

SAN FRANCISCO, Curran Theater. Patrick Dennis' aunt rides again in Maine.

RECORDS

Instrumental & Electronic

CHAVEZ: VIOLIN CONCERTO; CHAVEZ-BUX-TEHUDE: CHACONNE IN E MINOR (Columbia). Mexico's leading composer feels that the traditional concerto "lacks architectural unity," so he has written one in which the last two movements recapitulate the first two in mirror order. The experiment is successful: the tone has incisive, tensile strength. Violinist Henryk Szeryng plays in the modern idiom with meticulous care and controlled virtuosity, and Chavez, leading the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico with virile authority, shows again that he is the best conductor of his work.

MEL POWELL, VLADIMIR USSACHEVSKY, OTTO LUENING: MUSIC FOR ELECTRONIC AND OLDER INSTRUMENTS (Composers Recordings Inc.). These brief works by contemporary composers, two of them winners of the National Institute of Arts and Letters Awards for 1963, form a witty, notably unformidable medley that makes a good introduction to the tantalizing world of ultramodern music. Highlights are the Luening-Ussachevsky Concerted Piece for Tape Recorder and Orchestra, an engaging, raffish piece that has had considerable success in concert performances; Ussachevsky's Wireless Fantasy, a broadly funny foray that re-creates the early moments of Lee DeForest's career, complete with a threadbare transcription from Parsifal--the first music broadcast on radio; and Mel Powell's Events, which is little more than an engaging play on Hart Crane's poem Legend.

NIELSEN: PIANO MUSIC (RCA Victor). Keyboard music was incidental to Nielsen's career, but this lustrous release echoes most of his compositions at their very best. British Pianist John Ogdon is ideally suited to his assignment. His calm, intelligent performance gives coherence to Nielsen's sometimes aggressive brilliance, and in quiet, crystalline passages, such as the finale of Chacone, he achieves a purity of tone reminiscent of the late Walter Gieseking.

MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 13 AND 17 (Columbia). French Pianist Philippe Entremont, 34, makes his recording debut as conductor in addition to playing the piano solos. There is plenty of precedent for the dual role: Bach at the keyboard, Mozart at the violin, playing and leading simultaneously. Entremont the conductor picked Mozart "because of the relatively small forces involved and the relatively simple rhythms," but it is Entremont the pianist who makes this a masterly record. Set off by the responsive but docile Collegium Musicum of Paris, his special gifts of musical veracity and taste enhance familiar music and make it fresh.

BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS (RCA Victor, 4 LPs). The nine players present a well-balanced, impeccably performed concert of Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Poulenc, Villa-Lobos, Alexei Haieff, and the young American, Michael Colgrass. Having done so, they then upstage themselves by turning the fourth disk of the album over to a delightful discussion of chamber music by Peter Ustinov. "A Walter Mitty as far as music is concerned," Ustinov gives his imitations of a flute ("With my long, pendulous upper lip, I do better without the flute") and bassoon ("a very romantic instrument"). His musical god is Mozart. Noting that in the composer's day chamber-music playing was as offhand as it is reverential today, Ustinov says: "Mozart provided the Muzak for the period. The Archbishop of Salzburg and other such philistines went on talking through the first performance of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; I'm sure ice cream spilled, dogs barked." After listening to Ustinov, the rest of the recording seems more intimate.

CINEMA

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick deploys all the dazzling devices of the space age in this cosmic parable of the history and future of man.

INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Nicol Williamson plays, with explosive passion, John Osborne's portrait of a London solicitor who, resentful of being remade in the image of the computer, symbolizes buffeted humanity in the 20th century.

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK. Franc,ois Truffaut pays a loving and witty tribute to Alfred Hitchcock as he spins the sardonic story of a widow (Jeanne Moreau) bent on wreaking bloody vengeance on her husband's killers.

PETULIA. A thick-skinned doctor (George C. Scott) and a flipped-out wife (Julie Christie) make an odd pair of lovers in Director Richard Lester's portrait of a decidedly modern romance.

ROSEMARY'S BABY. Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion) has left both dialogue and chills virtually intact in the movie adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller about a devilish pregnancy. Mia Farrow's performance as the beleaguered wife adds an extra dimension of shuddery reality

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE SECOND REBELLION, by James McCague. A vivid account of the antidraft riots that destroyed whole sections of Manhattan during the Civil War.

ALDOUS HUXLEY, by John Atkins, THE HUXLEYS, by Ronald W. Clark. Cynic or mystic? Humanist or cold fish? Both books get close to the answers as they dissect the puzzling genius whose family contributed more than its share of intel lectual heavyweights.

THE FRENCH, by Francois Nourissier; THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. Beneath the chic of their homeland, both authors discover a miasma of decaying faiths and outmoded institutions.

INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF AMERICAN RADICALISM, by Staughton Lynd. A polemical, sometimes semimystical study of the American tradition of dissent by a leading guru of the New Left.

THE UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. A 56-year-old accountant loses himself in the illusion that the universe is an elaborate baseball game, and goes down swinging.

DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID, by Malcolm Lowry. Out of the fragments of the unfinished novels, stories and poems of the late tormented writer comes a Dantean pilgrimage of the spirit that closely parallels Lowry's own life.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Airport, Hailey (1 last week)

2. Couples, Updike (2)

3. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (4)

4. Myra Breckinridge, Vidal (3)

5. True Grit, Portis

6. Topaz, Uris (5)

7. Vanished, Knebel (6)

8. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (8)

9. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, Baldwin

10. Heaven Help Us, Tarr

NONFICTION

1. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (1)

2. Iberia, Michener (2)

3. Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, Collins and Lapierre (3)

4. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (4)

5. The Right People, Birmingham (5)

6. The Naked Ape, Morris (6)

7. The Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg (7)

8. The Center, Alsop (9)

9. The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker (10)

10. The French Chef Cookbook, Child (8)

* All times E.D.T.

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