Wednesday, May 5

SHINDIG (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* Elvis Presley's tenth anniversary in show business is the occasion for a program of the songs he made famous.

OUR PRIVATE WORLD (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of CBS's contribution to night-time soap opera, a new version of their successful daytime As the World Turns. Lisa Hughes (played by Eileen Fulton) begins a new life by moving to Chicago and working for the University Hospital.

BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Former ABC Night Host Les Crane makes his acting debut in this episode, which also features Jill Haworth.

Friday, May 7

OUR PRIVATE WORLD (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Part II of the nocturnal soaper.

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include a group of British satirists called the Cambridge Circus and Singer Nancy Wilson. Color.

Sunday, May 9

CAMERA 3 (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Dance drama based on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, performed by the Valerie Bettis dance group.

NBC SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). The Notre Dame Old Timers game, with the 1965 varsity defending itself against former Notre Dame players. Color.

THE LOYAL OPPOSITION (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). A look at the recent activities and future plans of the Republican Party.

DISCOVERY (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). A study of heredity in the world of chromosomes and genes.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). The guest is Thailand Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A report on remarkable new techniques in aerial photography as a reconnaissance weapon.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Oscar Winners Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft star in The Miracle Worker, based on the early life of Helen Keller (1962).

Monday, May 10

SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The story of the Pilgrims, recreated by John Secondari. Color.

CLOAK OF MYSTERY (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A "new" adventure series that actually consists of selected episodes from old adventure shows. This episode stars Simone Signoret and Lee Marvin in "Don't You Remember?" from CBS's old General Electric Theater.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE ODD COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are wonderfully droll as two recently de-wived men. Neil Simon's lines and the wild comic touch of Director Mike Nichols keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity.

LUV. Here Nichols is concerned with an odd trio. Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin are creatures of the absurd, weeping cocktail tears of self-pity while the audience has all the laughs.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. This couple isn't so weird but is funny all the same, as a light-minded prostitute (Diana Sands) deflates a heavily stuffed shirt (Alan Alda).

TINY ALICE. The rapture of the philosophical depths has left Edward Albee woefully befuddled, but his innate gift for generating theatrical excitement makes this metaphysical mystery play provocative entertainment.

Off Broadway

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED simmers with campy humor, and the bewitchers who stir the broth include a loony (Elmarie Wendel), a lovely (Carmen Alvarez), and a larky clown (Kaye Ballard). The little-known Porter songs are basted in wit.

JUDITH. Rosemary Harris is superb as the beautiful Jewess who saved her people by killing an Assyrian conqueror. Jean Giraudoux's skeptical version of the apocryphal story reveals a Judith more womanly than saintly, driven not so much by piety as by a desire for personal glory.

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE has the compassion and sensitivity of early Arthur Miller at its best. The tragedy brought by a Brooklyn longshoreman to himself and his family is powerfully depicted by a fine cast.

RECORDS

Choral and Song

BRAHMS: GERMAN REQUIEM (Deutsche Grammophon; 2 LPs). "Blessed are they that mourn," softly sings the chorus, and soon the sad saraband begins ("For all flesh is as grass"). At length the black solemnity is relieved by the soaring soprano voice of Gundula Janowitz singing "I will see you again." A powerful, rhythmically relentless performance by Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Singverein.

FAREWELL RECITAL (RCA Victor). Barred because of race from Washington's Constitution Hall 26 years ago, Marian Anderson was cheered by nearly 4,000 devoted fans last fall when she opened her farewell tour in the big auditorium. Much of the luster and steadiness are gone from her voice, but she still sings Negro spirituals and Schubert Lieder with touching directness and passages of beauty.

LEOS JANACEK: GLAGOLITIC MASS (Deutsche Grammophon). The late Czech composer wrote his only mass at 72, insisting, however, that he was "no believer?till I see for myself." The work is wildly dramatic, the bold musical motives deriving partly from the sounds of the ancient Church Slavonic language ("Glagolitic" is the name given to its written form). From the first brassy fanfare, Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik leads the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus in a rousing performance, with brilliant singing by Soprano Evelyn Lear and Tenor Ernst Haefliger.

TELEMANN: THE PASSION OF JESUS ACCORDING TO MARK (Philips; 2 LPs). Telemann was the most prolific member of the 18th century avantgarde, showing in his thousand-odd works a radical tendency to abandon Bach-type counterpoint in favor of melody and accompanying harmony. His Passion is given its first recording by the Lausanne Youth Choir and the Munich Pro Arte Orchestra, led by Kurt Redel, who has made a distinguished specialty of baroque music.

MOZART: MASS IN C MINOR (Angel). Written for his bride, who sang the coloratura soprano role in its first performance, this was Mozart's last Mass before the Requiem. Wolfgang Goennenwein conducts the South German Madrigal Choir and Southwest German Chamber Orchestra in this spacious performance, with Edith Mathis exquisitely singing the eight-minute bel canto solo, Et Incarnatus Est.

FRENCH ART SONGS (RCA Victor). Like the symbolist poets whose verses he sings, Tenor Cesare Valletti evokes sensuous, delicately colored scenes in narrow frames. There are Verlaine's Clair de Lune set to music by three composers (Claude Debussy, Gabriel Faure and Joseph Szulc), Verlaine's C'est I'Extase by Debussy, and Baudelaire's L'lnvitation au Voyage by Henri Duparc.

RUSSIAN ART SONGS (Vanguard). The soprano is Russian-born Netania Devrath, whose pure and sunlit voice is best suited to songs of springtime and skylarks by Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff; but also it can be darkened with sorrow, as in Tchaikovsky's laments (Was I Not a Blade of Grass; To Forget So Soon).

CINEMA

NOBODY WAVED GOODBYE. With improvised action and dialogue, Writer-Director Don Owen, a gifted young Canadian, mounts a spontaneous, surprisingly poetic essay about two affluent delinquents (Peter Kastner and Julie Biggs) swimming against the stream of life in suburban Toronto.

THE PAWNBROKER. Rod Steiger gives a virtuoso performance as an embittered old Jew whose memories of concentration-camp horror counterpoint the bleak daily grind of his pawnshop in Spanish Harlem.

IN HARM'S WAY. Pearl Harbor under attack sets the pace for Director Otto Preminger's slick, exciting melodrama of World War II, heroically fought by John Wayne, Patricia Neal, and a seaworthy supporting cast.

THE OVERCOAT. In Gogol's classic tale, translated exquisitely to film, a clerical nonentity (Roland Bykov) loses his life discovering that clothes make the man.

THE TRAIN. Prior to the Allied liberation, athletic Burt Lancaster pursues boxcars full of French art masterpieces toward the German border while Director John Frankenheimer wreaks havoc on the rails.

A BOY TEN FEET TALL. Handsomely photographed, this African odyssey tells of a runaway British boy (Fergus McClelland) who joins forces with a diamond thief (Edward G. Robinson) and stumbles into lots of crisp, adventurous fun.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Julie Andrews founds the Trapp Family Singers and triumphs over Nazis, the Tyrolean Alps, seven adorable moppets, and a schmalzy Rodgers and Hammerstein score.

DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Sex and sadism among the bourgeoisie of provincial France, with Jeanne Moreau as the Parisian maid who studies evil through a cool, clear glass.

ZORBA THE GREEK. Nikos Kazantzakis' novel becomes a roaring parable on life as lived by a wild old goat (Anthony Quinn) and his world-weary playmate (Oscar Winner Lila Kedrova).

RED DESERT. Color infuses plot and theme and provides the principal fascination of Director Michelangelo Antonioni's drama about a neurotic young wife (Monica Vitti) who finds the hardware of heavy industry rather depressing.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The historian-admiral draws heavily on his earlier works to portray the sweep of the history of all American peoples. His perspective on recent history is naturally close-up and highly personal, but the book is admirable and solidly readable nonetheless.

I WILL TRY, by Legson Kayira. A youthful African from the Malawi Republic (formerly Nyasaland), the author decided in 1958 to "walk" from his home to the U.S. to find freedom and an education. Nearly two years and countless blisters later, he made it to a junior college in the state of Washington. He tells of his odyssey with perception, warmth and a sense of wonder that many more practiced writers would be hard put to duplicate.

SAM WARD, "KING OF THE LOBBY," by Lately Thomas. The story of the first real congressional lobbyist to flourish in post-Civil War Washington is a valuable history of the moneyed side of 19th century America. There were few great houses that did not welcome the ubiquitous Sam.

THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION, by Kenneth M. Stampp. Historian Stampp argues that the actions of the North during the Reconstruction, far from being reprisals against the South, were aimed at giving the Negro his full civil rights.

BACK TO CHINA, by Leslie Fiedler. A successful satire on the Saul Bellow school of fiction that overglorifies man as his brother's keeper. Fiedler's hero greedily absorbs the blame for distant misfortunes, while making life painful for those closely involved with him.

CASTLE KEEP, by William Eastlake. A company of miserable soldiers is desperately trying to sit out the Battle of the Bulge in an isolated castle. The Germans locate them, and the action begins.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week) 2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2) 3. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (5) 4. Hotel, Hailey (3) 5. The Man, Wallace (7) 6. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton (6) 7. The Ambassador, West (8) 8. Hurry Sundown, Gilden (4) 9. An American Dream, Mailer (9) 10. The Ordways, Humphrey (10)

NONFICTION 1. Markings, Hammarskjoeld (1) 2. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (2) 3. The Founding Father, Whalen (3) 4. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (5) 5. Queen Victoria, Longford (4) 6. The Italians, Barzini (6) 7. Aly, Slater (9) 8. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg (7) 9. Design for Survival, Power 10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (10)

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