TELEVISION

Wednesday, November 16 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Bob and Bing Crosby, having traveled the world's Roads since 1940, take a short trip called "Fantastic Stomach," an imagined journey through Jackie Gleason's capacious inner space.

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Caterina Valente joins Louis Armstrong and Danny in a tooting salute to Satchmo's 53 years as jazzman.

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Unable to face the pressures and pleasures of a normal world, a band of hermits holes up in a department store--hiding by day, emerging by night. Based on John Collier's short story, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, "Evening Primrose" stars Anthony Perkins, Dorothy Stickney, Charmian Carr and Larry Gates.

Thursday, November 17 THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Princess Grace, then just our Kellv girl, won her Oscar as The Country Girl in the 1955 film version of Clifford Odets' nlay; also starring Bing Crosby and William Holden.

Friday, November 18

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). David McCallum displays his musical talent when he turns English horn player to thwart Thrush.

Saturday, November 19 ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Monkeying around with "The Primates," Anthropologist Loren Eiseley examines their disquieting similarity to man.

N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 1 p.m. to conclusion). Some stations will show the Notre Dame-Michigan State and the U.C.L.A.-Southern California games, while others will have a TennesseeKentucky and Stanford-California doubleheader.

Sunday, November 20 LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS. 10-10:30 a.m.). Starting its 19th year on television, Lamp will light on Folk Singer Pete Seeger at the Shaker Museum in Old Chatham, N.Y.

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A documentary of the frantic weeks of preparation for the opening of Manhattan's new Metropolitan Opera House and the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra. With Met General Manager Rudolf Bing, Leontyne Price, Thomas Schippers and Franco Zeffirelli.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Ronny Howard, the mop-top moppet who scored in the film version of The Music Man, filches the laughs from Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Dina Merrill and Stella Stevens in The Courtship of Eddie's Father. Moral: never underestimate the power of a six-year-old who decides that his widower-father needs a mate.

Monday, November 21 THE LUCY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).

Lucy visits John Wayne on location and disrupts production so much that Wayne can't decide which to shoot first, Lucy or the movie.

PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Angela ("Mame") Lansbury, Bob Newhart and the Young Americans cozy up with Perry in his first musical-variety special of the season.

Tuesday, November 22 CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). 'Inside Red China," narrated by Marvin Kalb. Films taken last spring by a West German crew peer inside homes, a steel mill and a university, also show life in a farm commune and the cities of Shanghai, Peking and Wuhan. Other films document the recent upheavals of the Red Guards.

THEATER

On Broadway HOW'S THE WORLD TREATING YOU? manages to be blisteringly funny in the modern British fashion as it peppers respectability, hypocrisy, caste, snobbery and Blimpcom-poops. Two zanies, Peter Bayliss and Patricia Routledge, volley comic antics back and forth with the precision of finalists at Wimbledon.

THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. Frank Marcus' black comedy hangs out the dirty laundry behind the scenes of a BBC soap opera. On the air. Sister George (Beryl Reid) is a habitual hymn hummer, but once her listeners flick off, she stalks around her lesbian household as a gin-reeking tyrant with whiplash language.

MAME. Every family has its grey sheep but few have a renegade as racy as the (ante terrible of the Dennis clan. The staging of this musical is sensational, the performances professional. The music, however, is distinguished only by its volume.

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! A son of the Ould Sod cuts through the Irish mist that envelops his boyhood village as he sets out for a metropolis in an alien land. Playwright Brian Friel tells his tale with invention and compassion.

SWEET CHARITY, a musical suggested by Fellini's Nights of Cahiria, chronicles the sexcapades of a Manhattan taxi dancer who's looking for a one-way ticket to the altar. Gwen Verdon leads a high-kicking troupe through Bob Fosse's choreographic wonderland.

WAIT A MINIM! has held a stage in Manhattan for eight months now, after stops in Johannesburg and London. Its South African octet offers well-paced satire even if the targets are slightly behind the times.

CACTUS FLOWER is a Gallic sex farce that not only survived the transplant from Paris but, as deftly tended by Abe Burrows, has thrived as Lauren Bacall's long-blooming Broadway hit.

Off Broadway

EH? by Henry Livings. As a stubbornly heroic anti-hero whom no machine, man or woman can tame, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect in this tickling British import.

RECORDS

Instrumental

THE MUSIC OF ARNOLD SCHOENBERG, VOL. IV (2 LPs; Columbia). Pianist Glenn Gould plays with pearly simplicity. The piano pieces include some of Schoenberg's first atonal works (Opus 11) and his first twelve-tone-row composition (the fifth piece of Opus 23). On the second LP are three groups of songs. Mezzo-Soprano Helen Vanni accomplishes the dizzying vocal leaps with feeling and elegance.

SCHUMANN: FANTASIA IN C MAJOR (London). Written when Schumann was 26 as a "deep lament" for his future wife, Clara Wieck, whom he felt he had lost forever because of her father's opposition, Fantasia contains heartbreaking passages. Youthful Vladimir Ashkenazy plays them here with raw, almost faltering emotion, in contrast to Vladimir Horowitz, who in his Carnegie Hall recital album (Columbia) performs the Fantasia with greater brilliance and tension.

BACH: LUTE SUITES NOS. 1 AND 2 (RCA Victor). A contemporary of Bach's wrote that if a lutanist lived to be 80, he would spend 60 years merely tuning his instrument. At 33, Julian Bream has mastered--and revived--the lute, but he feels that Bach's music "falls happier" on the guitar, and so performs the Lute Suites on that instrument, bringing off the gigues and soulful sarabands with warmth and bravura.

ELGAR: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN B MINOR (Angel). Sir Edward Elgar himself conducted when Yehudi Menuhin, as a prodigy of 16, first recorded this expansive, romantic showpiece. Recording techniques have come a long way since 1932, and Menuhin, at 50, has greater emotional involvement, as well as a marvelously burnished tone, now flashing, now fading in a wide-ranging display.

CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E MINOR (Seraphim). Taped from a 1948 broadcast, this is a performance by Dinu Lipatti, the fabled Rumanian pianist who died of Hodgkin's disease at 33. The concerto gives no hint of the sweep and virility Lipatti was capable of, but reveals his lyrical side, warm and magically sustained. The sound is a bit dim, and one seems to be listening by moonlight.

CINEMA

THE PROFESSIONALS. A real old-fashioned shoot-'em-up, with enough good guys and bad guys to populate the entire Western frontier. On the side of justice are Gunslingers Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan, hired to lasso a missing wife (Claudia Cardinale) kidnaped by Mexican Villain Jack Palance. The setting is a remote bandit stronghold in the early 1900s, the mood mean and violent.

THE FORTUNE COOKIE. As a TV cameraman who is mildly clipped while covering a football game, Jack Lemmon follows the zany signals called by his grasping brother-in-law Walter Matthau, a two-bit shyster with dreams of becoming a big-time chiseler. Nicknamed "Whiplash Willie," the illegal eagle stops at almost nothing to clip an insurance company of $1,000,000 in this comely comedy directed by Billy Wilder.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Broadway's best burlesque show has been hurled at the screen like a custard pie; but despite Director Richard Lester's extravagant cinematics, Top Bananas Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Keaton keep 'em laughing at the good and bawd goings on in Nero's Rome.

GEORGY GIRL. In an ordinary British comedy, Lynn Redgrave (daughter of Sir Michael, sister of Vanessa) displays extraordinary zest as an overweight, underloved girl who dreams only of romance and motherhood. Instead, she finds the path to matrimony an obstacle course of tragicomic misadventures, middle-aged satyrs, and a modish menage a trois.

LOVES OF A BLONDE. Czech Director Milos Forman, 34, explores the delights and dilemmas of youth in this touching tale of a hayseed girl and her brief encounter with a hipster from Prague.

BOOKS

Best Reading

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, by Randolph Churchill. The author keeps his own rather gaudy personality under wraps as he writes with compassion and detachment of his father's affection-starved Victorian upbringing. Little Winny was a master politician even then--wheedling, chiding, cajoling his distant parents for a little love and a little pocket money.

LA CHAMADE, by Francoise Sagan. Another swift vignette of autumnal love in Paris, turned out with crisp economy by a Gallic miniaturist.

THE SECRET SURRENDER, by Allen Dulles. This account of the capitulation of 1,000,000 Nazi and Italian troops during World War II. told by the man who arranged it, demonstrates that fact can sometimes be better than espionage fiction.

A HOUSE IN ORDER, by Nigel Dennis. In a terse, witty novel, the author of Cards of Identity uses the metaphor of imprisonment to explore modern man's search for self.

THE FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. After studying an anti-Semitic trial in Czarist Russia, the novelist writes a masterly tragedy of racial-religious hate and what happens to the honest man brought down by it.

TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. Burgess' lively tale of espionage is only trompe I'oeil; behind it flows the seriocomic vein that is the source of all his wit.

ROBERT FROST: THE EARLY YEARS, by Lawrance Thompson. Apple picking, mending walls and writing classic verse were all skills that came hard and late in life to New England's premier poet, as this knowledgeable and loving biography shows.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)

2. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2)

3. Capable of Honor, Drury (3)

4. Tai-Pan, Clavell (4)

5. The Adventurers, Robbins (6)

6. The Fixer, Malamud (5)

7. All in the Family, O'Connor (8)

8. Giles Goat-Boy, Barth (7)

9. The Birds Fall Down, West 10. A Dream of Kings, Petrakis

NON FICTION

1. Rush to Judgment, Lane (2)

2. Everything But Money, Levenson (3)

3. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)

4. With Kennedy, Salinger (7)

5. Games People Play, Berne (5)

6. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (6)

7. The Search for Amelia Earhart, Goerner (8)

8. Random House Dictionary of the English Language (4)

The Boston Strangler, Frank 10. The Passover Plot, Schonfield (10)

*All times E.S.T.

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