On Broadway

TELEVISION

Wednesday, March 11

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "Jazz in the Concert Hall," a study of modern symphonic composition incorporating jazz. Leonard Bernstein conducts.

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guest: Diahann Carroll.

Thursday, March 12

NBC WHITE PAPER: ADAM CLAYTON POWELL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Chet Huntley narrates this report on the contentious New York Congressman.

Friday, March 13

THE GREAT ADVENTURE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A newspaperman in 1893 tries to find out why President Grover Cleveland has disappeared for several days; with Barry Sullivan and Leif Erickson.

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Attorney General Robert Kennedy reminisces about J.F.K., Bobby's first such appearance since the assassination.

Saturday, March 14

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Soviet World Champion High Jumper Valery Brumel on a special trip to the U.S. to receive the program's Athlete-of-the-Year Award; also the World Professional Alpine Skiing Championships.

Sunday, March 15

FACE THE NATION (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). Facing Barry Goldwater.

DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). A repeat of "The Day That Life Begins," a program for children on birth.

ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). Fourth in this show's series on great American educators, this program will look at History Professor Dr. John Hope Franklin, whose specialty is the Reconstruction Era.

MISTER ED (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). With Mae West, in a rare appearance.

THE THOUSAND MILE CAMPUS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A news special on California's system of higher education, focusing for the most part on the University of California.

Monday, March 16

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). "The Many Faces of Paul Newman."

THEATER

ANY WEDNESDAY lodges an executive's sweetie in an executive suite as a tax and marriage dodge. As a kept waif, Sandy Dennis chug-a-lugs champagne from the bottle like Coke and cries through her smiles, leaving playgoers choked with laughter. Liquor may be quicker, as Ogden Nash once argued, but Sandy is dandy.

FOXY dogsleds Bert Lahr up to the 1890s Yukon, and from there on the evening is fool's gold, a bonanza of comic Lahrgesse.

DYLAN. Whether Alec Guinness, as Dylan Thomas, spars with newsmen, spats with his wife, or speaks in the soft dark ness next to a sleeping child, he conveys the poet's warmth and wit--as we! as his decline through sycophancy, self indulgence and alcohol.

HELLO, DOLLY! In a bouncy, daffy, ro mantic Little Old New York musical Matchmaker Carol Channing juggles lonely hearts and sassily wangles one fo herself.

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. Rober Preston is gleeful and guileful as a phon) TV writer-producer trying to keep his career from dissolving into a test pattern.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A proper young lawyer and his minx of a wife are the explosively funny tenants of an apartment that makes the housing shortage look desperate.

Off Broadway

THE LOVER by Harold Pinter, and PLAY by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's couple indulge in the aphrodisiac of a make-believe affair, while Beckett's trio reveal with solemn humor the banality of adultery.

THE TROJAN WOMEN. A powerful revival of the Euripides classic about the agony of the women who were to become the slaves and bedmates of the conquering Greeks.

IN WHITE AMERICA. This series of documentary dramatic sketches about racial intolerance is moving in its self-contained pain, playfully caustic in its humor.

RECORDS

ESSEN JAZZ FESTIVAL ALL-STARS (Fantasy) .records an encounter at Essen, Germany, of four Doctors of Jazz: Pianist Bud Powell, Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, Drummer Kenny Clarke and Bassist Oscar Pettiford, who died in Denmark a few months after the festival. All four play with great pride and inspiration, and Pettiford's fingers seem propelled by a special power of insight.

BIRD ON 52ND STREET (Fantasy) is a remarkably good collection of bebop period pieces by Altoist Charlie Parker; the boys in the band include Max Roach and Miles Davis. And on the album cover is a photo that is itself a thing of value: there stands smiling Bird in the middle of the street, and within spitting distance are marquees that bear the names of Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Jack Teagarden.

THE SHERIFF (Atlantic) presents further bloodless transfusions of commedia dell' arte and ritmos brasileiros into the arm of le jazz hot by John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet; the patient dies, but not without a gallant and occasionally beautiful struggle.

HERE'S LENA NOW! (20th Century-Fox) is a better exposition of Lena Home's social conscience than of her craft or art. The lady lives up to the freedom-now lyrics, but the singer neglects some of the songs.

JIM HALL (Pacific Jazz) is a pleasant sampler of soft and simple jazz, done with great finesse by Guitarist Hall and his trio. The late pianist Carl Perkins and Bassist Red Mitchell dignify the rhythm section with some fine rambling solos, and Drummer Larry Bunker tags along cheerfully.

DRUMMIN' MAN (Columbia) is an audio-biography on two LPs by Gene Krupa and the gang of sidemen who sat n with him from 1938 until 1949. The ?oys in the band include the likes of Frank Rosolino, Charlie Ventura, Teddy

Napoleon, Charlie Kennedy, Corky Cornelius and Roy Eldridge.

The best recordings of THELONIOUS MONK (TIME cover, Feb. 28); Criss-Cross and Monk's Draam (Columbia), Thelonious Alone in San Francisco, Brilliant Corners, Misterioso and Thelonious Himself (Riverside), Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Jazzland) and Work! (Prestige).

CINEMA

THE SILENCE. Sweden's film genius Ingmar Bergman takes a cold view of hot blood in the story of a pair of tortured sisters whose travels bring them to a Godforsaken city where nearly everything seems incomprehensible.

THE FIRE WITHIN. The suicide of a charming, alcoholic gigolo (Maurice Ronet) animates this morbidly fascinating drama directed by France's Louis (The Lovers) Malle.

DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Inadvertent nuclear war is sometimes hilarious, sometimes horrifying in Stanley Kubrick's comedy of terrors.

SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor and Cliff Robertson add style to a frail charade detailing the decline and fall of a 22-year-old virgin who has found virtue unrewarding.

THE GUEST. A superb performance by Donald Pleasence, repeating his stage role, enhances this film version of Harold Pinter's offbeat, ambiguous The Caretaker.

THE FIANCES. Italian Director Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets) turns his camera to a couple engaged so long that they scarcely remember why.

POINT OF ORDER. Senator Joseph McCarthy and Attorney Joseph Welch are adversaries in a bristling documentary taken from the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings.

THE EASY LIFE. One of the funniest-and saddest--Italian films in years offers Vittorio Gassman as a flashy Roman playboy whose jetaway pace spells disaster for a shy young law student.

TO BED OR NOT TO BED. A study of sexual mores in Sweden, conducted con brio by Alberto Sordi as a roving but forever disappointed Italian businessman.

TOM JONES. From Fielding's bawdy, boisterous 18th century classic, Director Tony Richardson has fashioned one of the best movies in many years.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE CHILDREN AT THE GATE, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The last manuscript completed before the author's death last year at 36, this novel tells of a daft but saintly man and how another slowly takes life and grace from him.

THE MARTYRED, by Richard Kim. Also dealing with spiritual agony, this remorseless and controlled first novel takes the Korean war as its setting and the presumed martyrdom of twelve Christian ministers as its theme. Modern sainthood, the author finds, most often is achieved by men racked by doubt.

THE BARBARY LIGHT, by P. H. Newby. A slight, wise tale about a successful con man who, in an unfortunate moment of candor, decides to tell his wife and his mistress about each other. To his dismay, they become fast friends.

WHEN THE CHEERING STOPPED, by Gene Smith. For the last 17 months of his presidency, Woodrow Wilson was grievously ill, mentally and physically. Reporter Smith piles up evidence to show that the President's wife and doctor kept the knowledge from the public while "the U.S. Government went out of business."

ONE FAT ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. The author's best novel since Lucky Jim tells of the misadventures of a rich, snobbish English publisher among some very irreverent Americans.

THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. In this tender, moral tale of uprooted America, the 19th century Wapshots come to painful if comic terms with the 20th. Neither mourn nor imitate the old ways, says Author Cheever, but cherish their spirit as "a vision of life as hearty and fleeting as laughter."

REUBEN, REUBEN, by Peter De Vries. A raffish, gifted poet, who very much resembles Dylan Thomas, visits U.S. suburbia and proves to be a catalyst in combination with sex and liquor. The partying and the pratfalls are followed by a typical De Vries hangover of brooding second thoughts about modern life.

A FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. Another lighthearted novel about a poet, souse and womanizer who keeps the plot in motion with his talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops, and his tendency to rant at strangers.

COOPER'S CREEK, by Alan Moorehead. The author again strikes out on unfamiliar terrain, this time telling the grim story of Burke and Wills, two 19th century Australian explorers, who first crossed their continent from south to north looking for rich prairies and finding an unsalvageable desert. They died on the way back.

HITLER: A STUDY IN TYRANNY, by Alan Bullock. Historian Bullock has revised ,his ten-year-old biography, which is still the definitive study of Hitler.

THE GOLDEN FRUITS, by Nathalie Sarraute. In this novel about the publication of a novel, Author Sarraute wittily dissects cultural toadies and intellectual conformity.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (2 last week)

2. The Group, McCarthy (1)

3. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (5)

4. The Venetian Affair, MacInnes (3)

5. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (4)

6. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (6)

7. The Living Reed, Buck (7)

8. The Fanatic, Levin (9)

9. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming

10. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer

NONFICTION

1. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (1)

2. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (4)

3. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (2)

4. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (3)

5. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (8)

6. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (6)

7. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop

8. Rascal, North (7)

9. The Minister and the Choir Singer, Kunstler

10. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (5)

* All times E.S.T.

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