TELEVISION

Wednesday, March 10

WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:45 p.m.).* Bette Davis is mother of the bride in The Catered Affair, with Debbie Reynolds, 1956.

THE GRAND AWARD OF SPORTS (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Bing Crosby presents a new prize to 21 outstanding athletes.

Thursday, March 11

DR. KILDARE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Colleen Dewhurst plays a bride who refuses surgery for breast cancer. Tom Bosley costars.

THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A woman reporter kills a man who seems about to attack her.

Friday, March 12

THE BOB HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A former Hollywood star tries to break into Italian art films. With Nanette Fabray and Ricardo Montalban. Color.

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Peggy Lee, Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Color.

Saturday, March 13

THE BOLD MEN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Tales of specialists in courage, including Parachutist Rod Pack, who falls 10,600 ft. before a mid-air meeting with a fellow sky diver carrying an extra parachute.

THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Victor Borge is host to Rosemary Clooney and Comedian Shecky Greene.

Sunday, March 14

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Report on the flourishing Jewish community of Hungary.

THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). Cape buffalo hunting in Africa, perch fishing on the Nile, and geese shooting in Chesapeake Bay. Color.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A look at a rare example of international cooperation in Southeast Asia: the project to control the Mekong River.

ALCOA PREVIEW (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Behind the scenes with Virna Lisi as she made How to Murder Your Wife, and with Tommy Steele as he prepares for his Broadway debut in the musical Half a Sixpence.

THE DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A spoof of burlesque with Guests Lee Remick, Jim Nabors and Mickey Rooney, plus cameo appearances by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Color.

Tuesday, March 16

HULLABALOO (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Jack Jones is host to French Pop Singer Sylvie Vartan and the Serendipity Singers. Color.

THEATER

On Broadway ALL IN GOOD TIME. Bill Naughton has fashioned a tenderly perceptive human comedy out of a single obvious and slightly quaint-sounding joke: the inabili ty of a pair of provincial newlyweds to consummate their marriage. There are no clinical freaks to be found here--just blessedly real people.

TINY ALICE. Edward Albee's opaque allegory peddles the fallacy that the pure in heart are mortally vulnerable before institutionalized worldliness. The symbols tinkle hollowly, but the theatricality of the play is electrically charged by John Gielgud and Irene Worth.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. A raucous contest between the flesh and the spirit has riotous results. Diana Sands and Alan Alda are delightful as a battling prostitute and a book clerk.

LUV. Three characters take a bath in a river of self-pitying tears. The talents of Author Murray Schisgal, Director Mike Nichols, and Actors Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin make the immersion hilarious.

Off Broadway

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Apart from Death of a Salesman, this is Arthur Miller's most compelling effort to dramatize the tragedy of a common man. Robert Duvall's gutsy portrayal of the doomed longshoreman-hero gives the play a tingling emotional impact.

WAR AND PEACE. Though it is never easy to shrink an oak back to an acorn, Phoenix Theater's production of the mammoth Tolstoy classic is surprisingly dramatic. In this play, and in an alternate offering, Man and Superman, individual performances are submerged in beautiful ensemble playing.

THE SLAVE and THE TOILET have been written with a tongue of obscene fire, and the people Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones obviously intends to sear are liberal white intellectual race-relation do-gooders.

RECORDS

Virtuosos

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: SYMPHONY FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA (London). On the heels of 1963's bestselling War Requiem comes another major new work by Britten, recorded by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra under the composer's baton. A 35-minute symphony of gloomy grandeur, it opens with short, skittering, sometimes angry themes. They are like uneasy questions, finally answered in passages that are broadly melodic but nevertheless tentative and unsettling.

BEETHOVEN: SONATAS FOR PIANO AND CELLO (2 LPs; Philips). Beethoven gave both the pianist and cellist a good deal to say in his sonatas, which makes the pairing of these artists a special delight. Sviatoslav Richter, 50, and Mstislav Rostropovich, 37, have been playing chamber music together for years, and each knows when to follow the other's moods and when to talk back.

A FRENCH PROGRAM (RCA Victor). French piano music has a tendency to sound delicate and slightly frostbitten. Artur Rubinstein breathes warmth and life into it, without ever losing his exquisite urbanity. His tribute to France, his home for much of his life, includes two Intermezzi by his late friend Francis Poulenc and La Vallee des Cloches by Ravel.

RACHMANINOFF: SECOND PIANO CONCERTO (Columbia). In 1947 an 18-year-old student with a penchant for Rachmaninoff was chosen to play the Second Piano Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Gary Graffman has never stopped reworking the ultraromantic piece and by now, as shown by this rich and seasoned performance, his formidable steel fingers are entirely in the service of the Russian's melancholy rhapsodies. With the New York Philharmonic, under Bernstein.

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: SIX SONATAS FOR FLUTE AND HARPSICHORD (Nonesuch). In bringing back the solo flute, the baroque revival has also headlined a brilliant French flutist, Jean-Pierre Rampal, who seems to have enough breath to tackle the entire 18th century output for his instrument. Turning from J. S. Bach and Mozart, Rampal has recently recorded music by Telemann, Pergolesi and others, as well as these melodic and graceful entertainments by Bach fils, accompanist for that royal flutist, Frederick the Great.

JOHN WILLIAMS (Columbia). "A prince of the guitar has arrived," announced Segovia of his 17-year-old Australian-born pupil in 1958. Williams is still playing royally--his own transcription of Bach's Fourth Lute Suite and some Spanish showpieces like Albeniz' Sevilla and Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhamhra.

CINEMA

THE SOUND OF MUSIC. This Rich ard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers who fled Austria after the Anschluss of 1938 has more sugar than spice, but a buoyant performance by Julie Andrews makes the show seem irresistibly gemiitlich.

RED DESERT. Against bleak industrial landscape near Ravenna, Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, La Notte) explores the neurotic problems of a young wife (Monica Vitti) and, frame by frame, fills his first color film with precisely shaded insights and breathtaking beauty.

JOY HOUSE. Director Rene Clement (Purple Noon) mixes chills with chuckles in an absurd but enjoyable thriller about a Gallic gigolo (Alain Delon) who eludes assassins on the Riviera, only to fall into the clutches of a coltish femme fatale (Jane Fonda).

TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC. This stark and timeless historical drama by Director Robert Bresson is based on actual transcripts of Joan's heresy trial, preserved in French archives since 1431.

HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE. As a care free bachelor who gets waylaid into matrimony, Jack Lemmon pleads the case for uxoricide, though his manservant (Terry-Thomas) makes the crime nonsensical, and his scrumptious lady (Italy's Virna Lisi) makes it practically unthinkable.

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Young love's spring song fades gradually to a swan song in this sadly cynical French musical by Director Jacques Demy.

MARRIAGE--ITALIAN STYLE. Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni pour all their charm into a hilarious old tearjerker about a home-loving harlot who parlays a few crumbs of love into a wedding feast.

ZORBA THE GREEK. An uproarious Bacchanalian bash based on Nikos Kazantzakis' novel and superbly acted by Anthony Quinn as the wild old goat whose life is a series of total disasters.

NOTHING BUT A MAN. The anguishing reality of what it means to be born black in America is set forth with power and poignancy in a straightforward drama about Negro newlyweds (Abbey Lincoln,

Ivan Dixon) struggling to find their place in the white man's world.

GOLDFINGER. To save the gold at Fort Knox, James Bond (Sean Connery) endures sex, sadism, and other in-line-of-duty disturbances--all impeccably tailored, of course.

SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. A throat-drying English thriller, built around Kim Stanley's subtly menacing performance as a deranged medium whose "voices" tell her to kidnap a child.

BOOKS

Best Reading

HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES, edited by Irwin Blacker. The highlights of Richard Hak-luyt's amazing compendium of travel diaries, letters and essays, which eloquently chronicle Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power.

MERIWETHER LEWIS, by Richard Dillon. The lively tale of the explorer who charted the American frontier but died in alcoholic ruin a few years after his triumph.

THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. Crystalline images and insights distilled from commonplace settings and circumstances by the reticent British librarian whose spare, introspective lines have won him a reputation as Britain's finest contemporary poet.

THE NEGRO COWBOYS, by Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones. Probably no group of slaves became emancipated more quickly or completely than the 5,000 Negro cowboys who rode the ranges from Texas to Montana, many earning fame and fortune. The authors' lively prose and vivid detail help fill in one of the most notable gaps in U.S. history.

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, by David Stacton. Author Stacton stands alone for the wit and learning that he lavishes on his historical novels. Though his plot sometimes gets lost in this tale of the Thirty Years' War, his prose has never been better.

THE ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. Thanks to the lively comic vision of Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill), the Ordways of East Texas, living and dead, make a family tree of Faulknerian dimensions.

JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. An informed and fair biography of the bitter dean who in Irish exile wrote the most brilliant satires in the English language.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week)

2. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton (2)

3. The Man, Wallace (3)

4. Hurry Sundown, Gilden (5)

5. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (4)

6. The Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara (6)

7. The Legend of the Seventh Virgin, Holt (9)

8. Hotel, Hailey (7)

9. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman

10. Joyous Season, Dennis

NONFICTION

1. Markings, Hammarskjold (1)

2. The Founding Father, Whalen (2)

3. Queen Victoria, Longford (5)

4. The Italians, Barzini (3)

5. Reminiscences, MacArthur (4)

6. The Words, Sartre (8)

7. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley

8. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands

9. Life with Picasso, Gilot and Lake (6)

10. Stage Struck, Zolotow

* All times E.S.T.

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