Wednesday, December 30
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews and Peter Finch star in Paramount's 1954 Ceylon-based love triangle. Elephant Walk. Color.
SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A tour of New York's discotheques, conducted by Dancemaster "Killer Joe" Piro and Aficionacla Sybil Burton.
Thursday, December 31 KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A murder mystery starring Roddy McDowall. Color.
Friday, January 1
TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE (NBC and CBS, 11:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m.). The 76th annual parade, from Pasadena. Color.
SUGAR BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 1:45 p.m. to end). Syracuse v. L.S.U., from New Orleans. Color.
COTTON BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (CBS, 1:45 p.m. to end). Nebraska v. Arkansas, from Dallas.
ROSE BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 4:45 p.m. to end). Michigan v. Oregon State, from Pasadena.
ORANGE BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 7:45 p.m. to end). Alabama r. University of Texas, from Miami.
Saturday, January 2
THE GATOR BOWL (ABC. 2-5 p.m.). Florida State v. University of Oklahoma, from Jacksonville.
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). World professional figure-skating championship, from Lake Placid, N.Y.
Sunday, January 3
LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A study of Dag Hammarskjold, based on his recently published diary Markings.
DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Bil and Cora Baird give a history of puppetry.
N.F.L. FOOTBALL (CBS, 1:30 p.m. to end). The Green Bay Packers meet the St. Louis Cardinals for the National Foot ball League playoff, in Miami.
N.B.A. BASKETBALL (ABC, 2-4 p.m.). The Boston Celtics play the Cincinnati Royals, in Cincinnati.
TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Tactical Air Command in training.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC. 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest is Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield.
PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Broadway Playwright William Hanley has dramatized Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft's opposition to the Niirnberg trials.
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Disneyland celebrates its tenth anniversary. Color.
ASTAIRE TIME (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Musical revue starring Fred Astaire, Barrie Chase and Count Basie. Repeat.
Monday, January 4 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS (ABC.
NBC and CBS, 9 p.m. to end). Live broadcast of President Johnson's speech.
THEATER
On Broadway
ALFIE! regards the workaday world well lost for lust. As Terence Stamp skillfully plays him in this consistently delightful and unpretentious comedy. Alfie is a cockney Casanova in the irresistible tradition of the picaresque novel.
POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr intermittently breaks through the brittle ice of wit into the chilly waters of insight in this pensively playful study of the ability to love and write. Alan Bates as a kind of BurtonThomas-Behan composite displays the kind of flypaper charm that women love to get stuck with.
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest. pitting a fiery, sexy shrew. Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda.
LUV refuses to keep a straight face before some of the pious obsessions of the contemporary world and stage. Eli Wallach. Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin are delectably right for their roles.
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Every living wordmonger of sacred theatrical cliches would swear that no one could make musi cal entertainment out of the spilled blood, blind gallantry, and stupefying idiocy of World War I. Joan Littlewood and her adroit London Theater Workshop company have done it. The result is hilarious, ironic, heartwarming and heartbreaking.
Off Broadway
THE TOILET and THE SLAVE. Naked hate, like naked love, is extremely difficult to project and sustain on a stage, but no one can do it with more venomous intensity than Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones. Jones is a dramatic terrorist, and as he sees it. the Negro is not starved for brotherhood but power.
MAN AND SUPERMAN. Performed with deceptive ease, superb acting finesse and unfaltering intelligence, this A.P.A.-at-the-Phoenix revival of one of Shaw's masterworks is the sort of tribute that only finely honed talent can pay to acknowledged genius.
THE ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE inject Harold Pinter's special menace-and-dread serum directly into a playgoer's veins.
RECORDS
Virtuosos
BEETHOVEN: CONCERTO NO. 5 (RCA Victor). The exuberant Artur Rubinstein and the Boston Symphony's meticulous Erich Leinsdorf bow in each other's musical direction in a performance of the lordly "Emperor" Concerto that is both polished and grand.
HEINRICH BIBER: EIGHT SONATAS FOR VIO LIN AND CONTINUO (2 LPs; Cambridge). Although the Baroque revival has dredged up a good deal of dross, it has also led to the discovery of some golden nuggets. Sonya Monosoff plays these with rich tone and temperament and gets colors seldom heard today, for Biber liked to use scordatura, an unorthodox tuning of the strings.
PROKOFIEV: VIOLIN CONCERTOS (Columbia). Isaac Stern is at ease in both concertos, one written just before and the other 18 years after the revolution. Prokofiev is more playful and shocking in the first, simpler and more romantic in the second. The orchestra is the Philadelphia, conducted by Eugene Ormandy.
BRAHMS: FIRST PIANO CONCERTO (RCA Victor). Van Cliburn digs into the technically difficult passages and plays them eloquently, but when there is nothing to display but the music itself, he has much less to say. With Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony.
BRAHMS: FANTASIES OPUS 116 (Deutsche Grammophon). What Van Cliburn lacks in the Brahms concerto, Pianist Wilhelm Kempff supplies here in full measure, condensing a whole spectrum of feelings into these seven melodic miniatures of Brahms's maturity.
BEETHOVEN: CHORAL FANTASY (Columbia). Rudolf Serkin gives a crisp and exhilarating performance of this unique work for piano, chorus and orchestra, which foreshadowed the choral finale of the Ninth Symphony.
HINDEMITH: KAMMERMUSIK NO. 4 and KURT WEILL: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Westminster). The young Hungarian-born violinist Robert Gerle has chosen some nearly trackless territory to explore, but he is led by that experienced pioneer, Hermann Scherchen. conducting the Vienna Wind Group and other instrumentalists.
CINEMA
ZORBA THE GREEK. An uproarious bacchanalian bash, superbly adapted from Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, with a magnificent cast led by Anthony Quinn as Zorba, who teaches a timid British author (Alan Bates) to enjoy women, endure disaster, and drink deep of the wine of life.
WORLD WITHOUT SUN. Seven pioneer oceanauts spend a month in an underwater tank town, and the result is an eerie, colorful documentary by Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (The Silent World).
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Every word of dialogue is sung in this sparkling French musical by Director Jacques Demy, who tells a rather foolish fable of young love with taste, spirit and style.
TO LOVE. A merry young widow (Harriet Andersson) lets a red-blooded travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) allay her grief. A lightsome sex comedy by Swedish Director Jorn Donner.
GOLDFINGER. Another slambang spoof of Ian Fleming's fiction has James Bond (Sean Connery) testing his mettle with a gilded nude, that shapely henchwoman Pussy Galore, and a master criminal who plans to pry the gold out of Fort Knox.
THE PUMPKIN EATER. Marriage is a sex war in this incisive British drama, and Anne Bancroft shows astonishing versatility as a three-time contender suffering from battle fatigue.
MY FAIR LADY. The movie version of the Lerner-Loewe musical based on G. B. Shaw remains indestructible showmanship, with Audrey Hepburn as the grimy flower peddler brought to full bloom by Professor Rex Harrison.
BOOKS
Best Reading
RUSSIA AT WAR: 1941-45, by Alexander Werth. A Russian-born British journalist who was on the spot has compiled the most complete English-language history to date of the titanic struggle with Germany. Though the account sometimes leans too heavily on official Soviet explanations-and jargon-the canvas is vast and the details often fascinating.
FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. Her essays, letters, and a fictionalized memoir transform Mrs. D. H. Lawrence from an offstage presence into a compelling figure passionately loyal to his work if, on one occasion at least, unfaithful to his person.
A TREASURY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL HUMOR, edited by Leonard C. Lewin. A happy sampling of parody, lampoon and satire that stretches in broad grins from Concord Bridge to the Kennedy Frontier and spares no political ideology, be. it right, left or middle.
"THE FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. This first biography about Joseph P. Kennedy documents much of his astonishing drive for power: how he amassed his large fortune and, when thwarted in his own political ambitions, sent his sons out to fight for the high public office he himself had missed.
HENRY ADAMS: THE MAJOR PHASE, by Ernest Samuels. The end volume of an imposing life and literary history that penetrates the cynicism of Adams' later years and traces the emotional and cerebral ferment that resulted in the austere Education and the moving Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.
THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. The fourth recent collection of this prolific writer's low-keyed chronicles, but not just more of the same. O'Hara's imagination is even livelier, his psychology broader, and the feeling implicit in a story such as Some Days I Get Such a Longing reaches an intensity that he has rarely equaled since Appointment in Samarra.
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. The nation's late "poet laureate" was too complicated a man to take full shape through this correspondence alone, but it is a thorough and delightful selection and promises much for Editor Thompson's official biography due next year.
LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Francoise Gilot. Picasso's penultimate mistress tells in bitterly frank detail of her nine turbulent years with the century's most extraordinary painter-genius.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week) 2. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (2) 3. The Man, Wallace (3) 4.This Rough Magic, Stewart (8) 5. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (4) 6.You Only Live Twice, Fleming (6) 7. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Lecarr (7) 8. Julian, Vidal (5) 9. Armageddon, Uris (9) 10. A Kind of 10. A Kind of Anger, Ambler
NONFICTION
1. Markings, Hammarskjold (1)
2. Reminiscences, MacArthur (2)
3. The Italians, Barzini (4)
4. Life with Picasso, Gilot and Lake (7)
5. My Autobiography, Chaplin (6)
6. The Kennedy Years, the New York Times and Viking Press (5)
7. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (3)
8. The Founding Father, Whalen
9. Russia at War, Werth (9)
10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley
-All times E.S.T.
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