Wednesday, October 16
CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-Author Jessica Mitford (The American Way of Death) and other critics of U.S. funeral practices.
SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Fredric March portrays Christopher Columbus.
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Mary Tyler Moore and Eddie Foy Jr.
Friday, October 18 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATRE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Jeff Hunter plays a handsome hitchhiker who gets in trouble for appealing too much to the sheriff's wife. Color.
Saturday, October 19 THE LIEUTENANT (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Lieutenant Rice (Gary Lockwood) finds he is deathly afraid of flying.
THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Howard Da Silva and Chester Morris guest-star in this episode about a corrupt judge.
Sunday, October 20 DISCOVERY (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Documentary on the Arizona desert.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Report on the Soviet fishing vessels off the U.S. coasts. Repeat.
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Maurice Evans, Richard Burton, Roddy McDowall and Lee Remick star in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Color. Repeat.
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An aging bobcat struggles to regain mastery of his domain. Color.
Monday, October 21 CRISIS: BEHIND A PRESIDENTIAL COMMITMENT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). One of two TV films recently shown at the New York Film Festival, this documentary follows President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy through critical moments of the June integration crisis at the University of Alabama.
EAST SIDE/WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). New York Mets Catcher Jesse Gonder is held up as a model to a group of problem Puerto Rican teenagers.
RECORDS BACH: THE SIX PARTITAS (Columbia). Musical paleontologists are invariably scandalized by Glenn Gould's approach to Bach: he plays the sublime master with more love of the living than respect for the dead. Such inspired impishness occasionally leads him astray, but here his genius conspires with his artistry, matching a deep rapport with the spirit of the music with a lofty regard for the voice of the piano.
BACH: THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, Vols. I and II (London). Harpsichordist George Malcolm never disobeys his metronome or his score, and the glimmer of life that survives has all the dignity of age with none of the frailties.
BACH FOR HARPSICHORD (Columbia). Fernando Valenti has a lyrical touch for his mechanical instrument and just the blithe spirit to go with it. More musical than Malcolm, more guarded than Gould, Valenti plays a textbook Bach with joy and devotion.
STRAUSS: EIN HELDENLEBEN (RCA Victor). Were it not for Wagner, there could have been no Strauss, and were it not for Strauss, there could be no proper use for an orchestra as mightily sonorous as the Boston Symphony Orchestra can become when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf is in a mood to encourage grandeur. Here, Leins-dorf's orchestra is at its heroic best and so, as a result, is Strauss's music.
PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (Columbia). Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra offer a vivid portrait of Prokofiev's worries at their blackest.
SCHOENBERG: SERENADE FOR SEPTET AND BASS VOICE (London). The Melos Ensemble of London, with Bass John Case, presents the immediate precursor of Schoenberg's completely twelve-tone music.
MENDELSSOHN: INCIDENTAL MUSIC TO A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (RCA Victor). Leinsdorf and the B.S.O. are the principal ornaments of a handsome production number that includes two engravings (suitable for framing) and a text inside a record jacket big enough to be a small child's bed.
THEATER
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, fights the class war at an R.A.F. base during a conscript training cycle. The play is good-humored, brisk, abrasive, and a scorching evening of theater.
HERE'S LOVE. Meredith Willson's Music Man bounce has deserted him in this musical adaptation of the movie Miracle on 34th Street. It may be Christmas time in the script, but the show has all the festive gaiety of a lead balloon.
THE REHEARSAL is one of the most brilliant and bitter black comedies yet written by French Playwright Jean Anouilh. In it, some worldly French aristocrats ferret out and destroy the true love that exists between a count and a governess.
LUTHER, by John Osborne, is dominated by Albert Finney's magnificent portrayal, fiery in ardor, tormented by doubt and intoxicated by God. Playwright Osborne's error lies in suggesting that Protestantism owes more to Luther's griping intestines than to his vaulting intellect.
CINEMA
MY LIFE TO LIVE. In his fourth film, the first to reach the U.S. since Breathless, French Director Jean-Luc Godard has compiled another dazzling textbook of cinema technique, and has composed a lyric poem of images about a woman who sells her body and saves her soul.
THE RUNNING MAN, not to be confused with The Third Man, Odd Man Out, or Our Man in Havana, is another exciting Manhunt directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed, but the trick this time is to know who is hunting whom.
THE V.I.P.S. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles, Rod Taylor and Margaret Rutherford spend the night in an airport, and believe it or not, they seem to enjoy the experience. So do the customers.
THE CONJUGAL BED. A very funny, very salty Italian tale about a middle-aged man (Ugo Tognazzi) who marries a young girl (Marina Vlady) and makes an embarrassing discovery: the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, are pretty to look at but tiring to pick.
THE MUSIC ROOM. Another fine film from India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy): the tragedy of a snob who dissipates a fortune to impress a man he despises.
THE SUITOR. This slap-happy story about a young man in a hurry to get married is a magnificent catalogue of sight gags, all of them written, directed and personally interpreted by a young French funnyman named Pierre Etaix.
BOOKS
Best Reading
SAINT GENET, by Jean-Paul Sartre. The eminent existentialist argues that Jean Genet, thief, pederast, poet, pornographer, playwright (The Blacks), is a walking allegory of modern man.
THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV, by Will and Ariel Durant. The eighth volume in their study of Western civilization covers the age when scientific thought made its first, disconcerting assault on traditional religious thought.
THE FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. A white Texan peers behind the facades of the store-front cathedrals in the Negro ghettos of great East Coast cities and finds a world of religion, chicanery and entertainment that only Negroes know from the inside. The novel's heroine, part prophetess, part charlatan, is all woman.
CHARLOTTE, by Charlotte Salomon. A touching, visual diary of one Jewish family's persecution and extermination by the Nazis, painted by Charlotte just before her death in Auschwitz in 1943.
THE LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The anthologist and the poet corresponded for 46 years. Frost did the talking, Untermeyer the prompting, and the result is a wonderful portrait of Frost, with all his crotchets on display.
THE GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. The witty Miss McCarthy turns her attention to the lives of eight Vassar girls ('33) who converge on New York City full of energy, idealism and a great deal of naivete, most of which they lose.
BEST SELLERS
FICTION
1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Shoes of theFisherman, West (2)
3. Caravans, Michener (3)
4. The Collector, Fowles (4)
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (5)
6. Powers of Attorney, Auchincloss
7. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (6)
8. Joy in the Morning, Smith (7)
9. City of Night, Rechy (8)
10. The Three Sirens, Wallace
NONFICTION
1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1)
2. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (2)
3. Rascal, North (5)
4. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (4)
5. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (3)
6. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (6)
7. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (8)
8. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (7)
9. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton (10)
10. Teacher, Ashton-Warner
* All times E.D.T.
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