Wednesday, October 4
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)*. "Give My Regards to Broadway," with Host Bobby Darin playing George M. Cohan. Guests: Liza Minnelli, Kaye Stevens, Dennis Day and George Carle.
ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Who can cope with a reluctant corpse that keeps reappearing to haunt a nongrieving widow? Shirley MacLaine wrestles with the problem in Alfred Hitchcock's chiller, The Trouble with Harry (1956).
Thursday, October 5
BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). In "The Sport of Penguins," Ethel Merman reaches for some high bank notes as the larcenous partner of The Penguin, played by Burgess Meredith.
IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Lee Grant and Farley Granger join Raymond Burr to thwart the attempted murder of a lady columnist in "Eat, Drink and Be Buried."
CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965) is the protagonist in this imbroglio involving a racketeer, Foreign Office Under Secretary, former hatcheck girl, New England socialite and Balkan patriot. With Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif and Ingrid Bergman.
Friday, October 6
RAYMOND BURR VISITS VIET NAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). After ten visits to U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, Actor Raymond Burr takes neither a Hawkish nor Dovish view of the war, but simply offers his impressions of the place along with a series of taped talks with G.I.s and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians.
Saturday, October 7
MANNIX (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A Swiss chemist disappears soon after developing a valuable formula, and Joe Mannix (Mike Connors) is sent to track him down in "The Many Deaths of St. Christopher."
Sunday, October 8
CBS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). "Road Signs on a Merry-Go-Round" may or may not be an apt title for this show. The idea is to explore the philosophy of Martin Buber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; the method is to have an actor and an actress play out various aspects of the three philosophies against a background of surrealistic film images and montages.
CATHOLIC HOUR (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). First of a series of four original dramas based on the human problems arising from the church in transition. The first: "No Intermission," an allegory about the difficulties of creating a sense of community in the world.
ROBERT SCOTT AND THE RACE FOR THE SOUTH POLE (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A re-creation of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's pioneering but ill-fated 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole, filmed on location in Antarctica. Repeat.
ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams and Imogene Coca in the film version of Broadway's Under the Yum-Yum Tree (1963).
Monday, October 9
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Part 2 of "The Prince of Darkness Affair," with Julie London, Bradford Dillman and Carol Lynley.
THE DANNY THOMAS HOUR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Mary Frances Crosby makes her acting debut opposite Daddy Bing in "The Demon Under the Bed," a drama about an aging singer seeking peace. George Maharis and Joan Collins costar.
Tuesday, October 10
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) with Elvis! Elvis! Elvis! as a fishing-boat captain.
CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Barry Goldwater's Arizona," a tour of the Grand Canyon state with the former Senator as guide and historian.
RECORDS
Jazz
STAN GETZ: SWEET RAIN (Verve). Back in a jazz bag after his long flirtation with bossa nova, Getz produces a superb album filled with lung power and lyricism. The notes sparkle when he cuts his tenor sax loose on Litha and Con Alma. Then, for a change of pace; he plays Sweet Rain with almost melancholy introspection, while Pianist Chick Corea, Bassist Ron Carter and Drummer Grady Tate add to the tune's dreamlike mistiness with soft splashes of dissonance.
BUDDY RICH: BIG SWING FACE (Pacific Jazz). Drummers have revered Rich ever since his first incarnation with the top bands in the swing era of the '30s and '40s. Now with his own big band, he comes through with percolating performances of such pop hits as Norwegian Wood and Wack Wack, rousing versions of Love for Sale and Bugle Call Rag, and a big bluesy beat on Big Swing Face. In The Beat Goes On, Buddy's daughter Cathy, 12, makes her singing debut with a surprisingly mature voice.
ROGER KELLAWAY: SPIRIT FEEL (Pacific Jazz). The word for Jazz Pianist Roger Kellaway is virtuoso: he can ripple off brilliant arpeggios at breakneck speed or gently slide through a velvet-glove rendition of a ballad. In this album, Roger is mostly in a ripping good humor. His wit and dazzling technique are apparent in the cascades of notes that shower from the keyboard and the rollicking patterns he plays behind Tom Scott's saxophone. His skills are all the more remarkable considering that the tunes' meters include such oddities as 11/8 and 7/4 and some of the backgrounds are composed of electronic sounds and eerie voices.
LOU DONALDSON: ALLIGATOR BOGALOO (Blue Note). Sinuously rhythmic, this music evokes an exotic serpentine dance. Donaldson's alto sax undulates through the murky riding tones of the organ and guitar that accompany him, while the drums keep perking and poking. Aw Shucks! and One Cylinder are tortuously slow-weaving, while the title tune is a blend of jazz and rhythm-and-blues that rocks infectiously along.
THE TOTAL J. J. JOHNSON (RCA Victor). Trombonist Johnson, who plays and conducts all the tunes on this record, is also the composer and arranger. The band, braced by such artful performers as Flugelhornist Art Farmer, Tenor Saxophonist Jerome Richardson and Pianist Hank Jones, responds smartly to Johnson's call to attention. Say When and Little Dave are swinging showcases for JJ.'s artistry, while Space Walk has an indolent, understated rhythm.
HANK MOBLEY: A CADDY FOR DADDY (Blue Note). Tenor Saxman Mobley steers his sextet straight down the highway of rock-jazz in the title tune Caddy, neatly shifts gears into a lightning bit of avant-garde artistry in Third Time Around and brakes deftly for a humorous and unpredictable detour in Venus Di Mildew. Lee Morgan on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass and Drummer Billy Higgins help lank produce a hard-hitting sound for hose who like music with a powerful pulse.
CINEMA
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS. Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French has the brutal impact of a bombe plastique.
THE CLIMAX. Ugo Tognazzi gives an exquisitely humane performance as a three-family man (one wife, two mistresses, six children) in a bittersweet comedy produced, written and directed by Italy's Pietro Germi.
CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. Czech Director Jiri Menzel's poignant film is a series of contradictions: a tragic comedy, a peaceful war movie, a success story of a failure.
UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE. In this skillful culling of memorable moments from Bel Kaufman's bestselling book about a teacher's struggle in a slum high school, Sandy Dennis re-creates the tyro schoolmarm with considerable grace.
THE BIG CITY. Satyajit Ray has taken a simple tale of six people living in a Calcutta tenement and fashioned an eloquent testimonial to the courage of ordinary people facing ordinary problems.
THE THIEF OF PARIS. French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers) could have used a first story for this disjointed film about a fin de siecle second-story man. Even so, there are a few stolen treasures, including Jean-Paul Belmondo's performance.
THE BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS. Adultery--Italian style, by Divorce--Italian Style Director Pietro Germi. Virna Lisi supplies the sugar and spice. Really quite nice.
THE WHISPERERS. An old, retired domestic on the dole in an English industrial town is the somewhat sociological subject of this film, which nevertheless rises to uncommon heights because of a soaring performance by Dame Edith Evans.
BOOKS
Best Reading
TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. The dark and poignant revelations of Stalin's daughter about life with father.
YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945; FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, uses the detailed personal diaries of F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., to trace the career of that imperious New Dealer from 1941, when he organized a wartime fiscal-fitness program for the U.S. economy, through the 1945 "Morgenthau Plan" for emasculating and dismembering conquered Germany, which cost him his job.
A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. In a season of female discontent, this heroine is a poor girl determined to make good, but fated to go mad. A naturalistic novel of considerable power.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE: THE EVOLUTION OF GENIUS by Winifred Gerin. A meticulous biography illuminates the murky legend of the baffling, star-crossed Bronte sisters, especially Charlotte, the author of Jane Eyre.
THE COLD WAR AS HISTORY, by Louis J. Halle, peels away the emotions of 1945-62 to reveal one of history's most clear-cut conflicts resulting from Great Power misunderstanding.
A HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. A first novel about three castoffs of American society who come to rest in New Orleans. Author Stone has achieved a rare combination of humor, despair and moral wrath.
THE NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NO. 1, edited by Theodore Solotaroff. In the precarious business of launching a new literary periodical, Editor Solotaroff aims midway between big names and big, unheralded promise. One highlight: Philip Roth's Jewish Blues, the best Jewish-family story since Salinger's Franny and Zooey.
STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. The story of one man who risked his own life in an effort to take Hitler's, and the unlucky chance that caused him to fail.
DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come.
GOG, by Andrew Sinclair. A weird, often wildly wonderful parable about a giant who makes a pilgrimage through history in search of himself.
RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren. An appreciation and lament for the poet by friends and admirers who benefited most from his life and work.
AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. Novelist Griffin specializes in dramas that pit military discipline against moral imperative, and this World War II sea story is his best.
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty is told through the personal tragedy of the likable last heads of the Russian ruling family.
BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. A splendid evocation of the life and times of the foppish young British artist whose decadent eccentricity and extraordinary style have today won him belated recognition as one of the most fabulous of all the Victorians.
RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to uncover the cancer of Negro despair.
THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along the way.
NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART, by Andrew Field. This intelligent if somewhat unyielding study of all Vladimir Nabokov's literary production firmly consolidates his claim to succeed James Joyce as the Old Artificer of English.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)
2. The Chosen, Potok (2)
3. The Eighth Day, Wilder (3)
4. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart
5. A Night of Watching, Arnold (4)
6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (7)
7. An Operational Necessity, Griffin (10)
8. Washington, D.C., Vidal (6)
9. Topaz, Uris
10. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (8)
NONFICTION
1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (3)
2. Our Crowd, Birmingham (1)
3. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (10)
4. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2)
5. Incredible Victory, Lord (6)
6. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (4)
7. The Lawyers, Mayer (5)
8. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (7)
9. The Fall of Japan, Craig
10. Everything But Money, Levenson (8)
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