Thursday, August 17

AN EVENING AT TANGLEWOOD (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.).* Live from the Boston Symphony's summer home in Massachusetts' Berkshires, Erich Leinsdorf conducts the orchestra and Guest Solo Violinist Itzhak Perlman in selections from Mozart, Dvorak, Tchaikowsky and Saint-Saens.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:45 p.m.). Barabbas (1962), with Anthony Quinn as the thief whose life was spared on Calvary. Co-starring Sylvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Katy Jurado and Ernest Borgnine.

SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Who in "68?" is the question put to Democrats Wayne Morse, Ted Sorensen and Bill Moyers, and to Republicans Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, George Romney, Ronald Reagan, Charles Percy and Barry Goldwater. William H. Lawrence does the interviewing.

Friday, August 18

WORLD BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Actor Jimmy Stewart, who holds scouting's highest award of the Silver Buffalo among his many accomplishments, narrates the 12th International Jamboree at Farragut State Park, Idaho. This special focuses on six scouts, representative of the 13,000 boys from nearly 100 countries who journeyed to the camp-out.

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (1962) dwells on the lives of a frustrated spinster (Geraldine Page) and her high-living neighbor (Laurence Harvey) to whom she has devoted a lifetime of romantic dreams. Repeat.

Saturday, August 19

ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The role of South Korean troops in the Viet Nam war is examined in "The ROKs: Savages or Saviors?" Film of the Tiger Division in action, plus interviews with Korean Prime Minister II Kwon Chung and General William Westmoreland.

Sunday, August 20 DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 to noon).

Part 2 of "Animal Rescue Squad" takes viewers on an animal ambulance ride, into an ASPCA hospital, and then travels back in history to the nineteenth century, when there was no organized cam paign against cruelty to animals.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger is questioned by a panel of newsmen.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.).

"Conquering the Sea" shows how man will one day exploit the ocean for min erals, chemicals and enough food to feed a world population five times the size of today's. Among anticipated underwater developments: porpoises trained to act as liaisons between ships and divers, fish farming and coal mining. Repeat.

ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Is there "Life on Other Planets"? Until we can see for ourselves, we can only look at the evidence -- such as meteorites from outer space that are remarkably earthlike in composition -- and speculate, as does Anthropologist Dr. Loren Eiseley, that there are millions of planets as well suited to life as our own. Repeat.

Monday, August 21

SINGER PRESENTS TONY BENNETT (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Tony runs through a folio of songs to remember him by (Who Can 1 Turn To?, Because of You), detouring for a scenic stroll around San Francisco to the tune of his alltime hit, I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Repeat.

NFL PRE-SEASON GAME (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). In the second of five preseason games, the Baltimore Colts meet the St. Louis Cardinals at St. Louis.

Tuesday, August 22

"WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Yet another look at the Haight-Ashbury scene, as doctors, ministers, parents and hippies document "The Hippie Temptation" on the premiere program of this series of news specials.

NET JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "H. L. Hunt--The Richest and the Rightest" provides a platform for the ultra-conservative oil mogul to speak out on his wealth, the John Birch Society, President Johnson, mass media, the Warren Commission and World Communism.

THEATER

Theater in New York is a year-round affair, with the top shows from the winter season lasting through the summer.

YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING is a comedy hit by Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy) that deals with a common human preoccupation--sex. In four playlets, Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard make faces at sex, shed tears over it, spoof it and sneer at it. The audience, for the most part, just laughs at it.

THE HOMECOMING is the winner of the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the Best Play of the Year. Harold Pinter's latest drama is characteristically spare, laconic and mystifying as it examines a family reunion more sadistic than sentimental.

BLACK COMEDY, the better half of two one-acters by British Playwright Peter Shaffer, provokes laughter with characters careening in the dark in a sculptor's studio when the lights blow out.

CABARET, voted the Tony and Drama Critics' Circle awards as Best Musical, mounts a mountain of a production on a molehill of a book. Joel Grey is pluperfect as the degenerate M.C. of the Kit Kat Klub in the degenerating Berlin of the 1930s.

HALLELUJAH, BABY! is nothing, baby, except a vehicle for Singer Leslie Uggams to show her wares and wiles.

I DOI I DO! Mary Martin and Robert Preston are a team de force in this musical version of The Fourposter.

THE APPLE TREE. Mike Nichols directs and Barbara Harris stars in three playlets based on stories by Mark Twain, Frank Stockton and Jules Feiffer.

ILLYA DARLING brings Melina Mercouri from Piraeus to Broadway to re-create the role of the prostitute of Never on Sunday. Big, brassy and sometimes boring.

THE STAR-SPANGLED GIRL is Doc Simon's latest and least amusing comedy. Tony Perkins and Paul Sand play self-conscious kooks whose male stronghold is upset by a determined female square (Sheilah Wells).

Holdovers from the 1965-66 season include smash musicals--Fiddler on the Roof, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and Man of La Mancha--plus one comedy, the Gallic sex farce, Cactus Flower. Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah meanwhile continues to provide intellectual and dramatic stimulation off-Broadway.

RECORDS

Jazz CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET: LOVE-IN (Atlantic). In Russia, where Lloyd played a triumphal tour last May, audiences rose to their feet and cheered. He had a somewhat different effect on the hippies who flocked to hear him at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. The flower people were so entranced by Lloyd's reedy tenor-sax calligraphy and dazzling flute daubings that they all lay down in the aisles, hugged each other, and took a musical trip. Hence the title.

DON CHERRY: SYMPHONY FOR IMPROVISERS (Blue Note). Much of the "new music" often seems a nonstop barrage of chaotic sound, and lovers of symphony--jazz or otherwise--might quarrel with Cherry's title. Nevertheless, the record is a good deal more than a simple assault on the eardrums. With Cherry on cornet, Leandro ("Gato") Barbieri on tenor sax, and Pharaoh Sanders on piccolo, the themes are witty and unpredictable--as in one wild passage that sounds like a brigade of bagpipes run amuck. And there are moments amid all the gusty experimental yelps, squeals and chirps when the rhythm section swings coolly along so everybody can catch their breath.

BILL EVANS AT TOWN HALL, VOL. I (Verve). Evans is the summa cum softly of pianists, and this record of his New York concert debut in February 1966 displays the conviction and absorption of Evans at the top of his form. It contains the dulcet ballad Spring Is Here and his silkiest threading of Who Can I Turn To, in which Bassist Chuck Israels supports him with elan. The most affecting moments come during Solo--In Memory of His Father (who died two weeks before the concert), which begins with a slow, misty Ravel-like prologue and continues with achingly tender musings on two jazz themes.

THE GERALD WILSON ORCHESTRA: LIVE AND SWINGING (Pacific Jazz). Music, like everything else, has its cyclical fashion, and big jazz bands are back. The forte of this West Coast contingent is a forthright and gutsy presentation of blues and standards. Wilson leads the 19 instrumentalists through the up-tempo spine-tingler The It's Where It's At, a loping and graceful I Should Care, and Paper Man, in which the tenor sax cuts a solo right out of the avant-garde bag. More restful are Tenor Man Harold Land's expressive weavings during a pretty arrangement of Ellington's I've Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good).

RAY BRYANT: SLOW FREIGHT (Cadet). As modern English is to the King James Bible, so jazz is to the old gospel songs. Here Bryant looks back to his gospel roots. Freight is a rumbling blues track that chugs lazily along for nearly ten minutes. Amen and Return of the Prodigal Son are shorter, more charged episodes, while Satin Doll offers a change of pace with its bop feel and splendid solo by Bassist Richard Davis.

THE PANASSIE SESSIONS (RCA Victor Vintage Series). Connoisseurs of Dixieland, take note. In this reissue are the works of such outstanding New Orleans stalwarts as Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow and James P. Johnson. Originally recorded in 1938-39, these sides were an effort to preserve the vanishing old sound at a time when swing was beginning to supplnt it. The earlier sessions (Revolutionary Blues, Weary Blues) are authentic razzmatazz--the stomping beat of the '20s. The later sessions hint at things to come--the more melded, shirt-tucked-in swing of the '30.

CINEMA

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. In Mississippi, two policemen, one a Negro (Sidney Poitier), the other a white man (Rod Steiger), join forces to solve a murder in this subtle and meticulous study that breaks with black-white stereotype.

THE WHISPERERS. Dame Edith Evans, 79, playing a lonely, penurious old woman, creates new proof that there is no age limit on greatness.

DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. The split of a suburban couple (Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds) provokes some tart dialogue: "The uranium mine to her, the shaft to me."

THE FAMILY WAY. A young couple (Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett) who cannot consummate their marriage are the subjects of this delicate comedy that owes a lot of its depth to an extraordinary performance by John Mills as the groom's father.

EL DORADO. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum get the most out of a script full of raudous frontier humor in this fist-come, fist-served western.

BOOKS

Best Reading

BEARDSLEY, by Stanely Weintraub. Aubrey Beardsley's life was dedicated to decadence, but htis evocative new biography-plus the current Beardsley revival-is evidence that he failed.

RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. A skillful autopsy of the 1965 Watts riot in Los Angeles performed by a Los Angeles newspaperman.

INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. A replay of the 1942 Battle of Midway by a specialist in the literary art of summoning up remembrance of things past.

END OF THE GAME, by Julio Cortazar. This Argentine author thinks only the unthinkable and imagines the weird and the baffling. These 15 stories, one of which was made into the movie Blow-Up, alternately amaze and appall the reader.

THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. The author maps the life of the flamboyant Victorian explorer, linguist and erotologist and concludes that his real passion was not for geographical discovery "but for the hidden in man."

NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART, by Andrew Field. Though his performance as critic is generally excellent, Field contributes mainly an engrossing review of Nabokov's entire career--in Russian and English--and finds the roots of such masterpieces as Lolita and Pale Fire.

THE TIME OF FRIENDSHIP, by Paul Bowles. The title of this story collection, the author's first in 17 years, is ironic. For a Bowles character, it is always the time of hostility, destruction and death.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)

2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (3)

3. The Chosen, Potok (2)

4. The Plot, Wallace (5)

5. Washington, D.C., Vidal (4)

6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6)

7. The King of the Castle, Holt (9)

8. A Night of Watching, Arnold

9. When She Was Good, Roth (8)

10. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (10)

NONFICTION

1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (1)

2. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2)

3. Our Crowd, Birmingham (3)

4. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (5)

5. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (4)

6. Everything But Money, Levenson (6)

7. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (7)

8. Games People Play, Berne (10)

9. The Death of a President, Manchester (9)

10. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn

* All times E.D.T.

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