TELEVISION

Wednesday, October 11 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). *George Burns hosts "Tin Pan Alley Today," with Guests Dionne Warwick, Dick Cavett, the Harper's Bizarre, Tony Tanner, Nancy Ames, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66.

THE BELLE OF 14TH STREET (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Barbra Streisand stars in this musical special that brings back the golden days of vaudeville with help from John Bubbles and Jason Robards, making his singing debut.

Thursday, October 12 DANIEL BOONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When ole Dan'l sets out to recover some stolen gold for Guest Star Maurice Evans, his Indian buddy, Mingo (Ed Ames) keeps the hijackers occupied with an aria from The Marriage of Figaro. Operation successful.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty star in William Inge's Splendor in the Grass (1961), which is also a chance to see Sandy Dennis' film debut.

Friday, October 13

OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Maureen O'Hara, as Mother Goose, leads the gaggle in a musical gander at the pedagogical values of old nursery rhymes. Other participants in "Who's Afraid of Mother Goose?" include Frankie Avalon, Nancy Sinatra, Fred Clark, Rowan & Martin, Dick Shawn, Joanie Sommers and Margaret Hamilton.

Saturday, October 14

THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Great One is visited by Joel Grey, Groucho Marx, Johnny Mathis, Jane Morgan and Louis Nye.

Sunday, October 15

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). The first of a two-parter, "Sometimes I Like Even Me," that deals with the progressive Lewis-Wadhams School in upstate New York. Lewis-Wadhams, which has no compulsory classes, has been in operation for five years and is based on A. S. Neill's English school, Summerhill.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Michigan's Governor George Romney stops in to have a few thoughts laundered by the press.

CATHOLIC HOUR (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). A young priest working in a slum ghetto faces an identity crisis in "Many Roads to Damascus," the second of four original TV dramas.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Mankind's potential problems with increased leisure time are examined in "The Four-Day Week." Special appearances are made by Robert M. Hutchins and Harry Van Arsdale.

THE ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Carroll Baker is Harlow (1965), and her co-stars are Martin Balsam, Angela Lansbury and Red Buttons.

Monday, October 16 THE LUCY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).

When Lucy decides that the bank needs to enhance its image with a celebrity depositor, she sets out to enroll the master penny pincher himself, Jack Benny.

CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Bob takes delightfully deadly aim at such tempting targets as divorce Hollywood style, child-performers-turned-politicians and the hippie scene. He is assisted by Debbie Reynolds, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme.

Tuesday, October 17

CBS PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Loring Mandel's original play Do Not go Gentle Into That Good Night, is set in New England and centers on Peter Scher-mann (Melvyn Douglas), who is placed in a home for the elderly by his children. Shirley Booth co-stars as a resident who helps Schermann decide in favor of life rather than simply waiting for death.

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DIALOGUE: ISRAEL AND MARTIN BUBER. Shot on location in Israel, this special relates Martin Buber's philosophies to the life and institutions of Israel today. It also explores his role in keeping open dialogue between opposing views and his enormous influence outside Israel.

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Right of Privacy," a plea for privacy in an age of bulging files, suggests that the proposed National Data Center would open a man's entire life to the world. Comments by Justice William O. Douglas, Senator Sam Ervin and Ralph Nader.

RECORDS

Orchestral

Long-dead composers often return to vogue when a new era finds sympathetic echoes in their music. Three whose recordings are now flooding the market are Austria's Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Denmark's Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) and America's Charles Ives (1874-1954). Bruckner was rooted solidly in the Romantic era, Nielsen made a few tentative forays into more astringent tonalities and rhythms, while Ives was an iconoclast, ahead of his time and perhaps even of ours, a difficult composer for performer and listener alike.

BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 7 (Deutsche Grammophon; 2 LPs). Bruckner was 60 when he had his first big success with his Seventh Symphony, still the most popular of his works and now available in nine LP versions. Its adagio is a luminous tribute to Richard Wagner, of whose imminent death Bruckner had a premonition and whose orchestral richness he emulated. Bruckner's canvas is huge and his colors resplendent as dawn, even in sorrow. Eugen Jochum, conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, lets the music swoop and swirl with elegant momentum.

BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (Deutsche Grammophon). Eugen Jochum, this time with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, again plays Bruckner with melting loveliness. Jochum makes even the hushes seem meaningful in this "Symphony of Pauses" so called because of the silences that separate contrasting passages.

NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 4 (RCA Victor). Nielsen's Fourth, like Bruckner's Seventh, is broadly affirmative, but its effects are less solemn and reverent, more dashing and theatrical. Nielsen called the symphony "The Inextinguishable," explaining his belief that "in case all the world was devastated, then nature would still begin to breed new life again." Jean Martinon ignites the Chicago Symphony and adds a blazing performance of Nielsen's Helios Overture, in praise of the sun.

NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 1 (RCA Victor). Shades of Brahms and Dvorak haunt this 1894 work, interrupted by future portents: bright, jagged chord progressions amidst the quietly flowing harmonies. Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra bring fresh insights to the work.

THE WORLD OF CHARLES IVES (Columbia). As a boy, Ives heard two town bands approach from different directions and march past each other, tooting different tunes full-force. The folksy spirit of band music, combined with the thorny complexities of conflicting voices and rhythms, characterizes his work in this excellent sampler. Eugene Ormandy conducts Three Places in New England; Leonard Bernstein, Washington's Birthday; and Leopold Stokowski, the longest piece, The Robert Browning Overture.

IVES: ORCHESTRAL SET NO. 2 (RCA Victor). This is a first recording of a three-movement symphony finished soon after Three Places in New England and like it a Babel of musical quotations. The first theme, worked and reworked in the movement called An Elegy to Our Forefathers, is from Old Black Joe: "I'm coming, I'm coming."

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OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE. Out of a modern-Gothic tale of innocence and evil, Producer-Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) has created an adult morality play with the aid of seven children, each an accomplished scene stealer.

THE TIGER MAKES OUT. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson repeat their rollicking performances in Murray Schisgal's off-Broadway play, The Tiger, with an expanded scenario that overflows with cinematic sight and sound gags.

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS. Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French explodes with the power of a bom be plastique.

THE CLIMAX. The trials of trigamy, as related by Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce, Italian Style), with Ugo To-gnazzi in the role of a man lost in the bittersweet labors of love.

CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. Czech Director Jiri' Menzel's film is a series of con tradictions: a tragic comedy, a peaceful war movie, a success story of a failure.

BOOKS

Best Reading

ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress through 20 civilizations, once again demonstrates the Durants' immense talent for transmuting tireless research into never tiresome storytelling.

THE HEIR APPARENT, by William V. Shannon, is as often critical, usually dispassionate but at times frankly sympathetic assessment of Bobby and his attempt to bring about a Kennedy Restoration.

O THE CHIMNEYS, by Nelly Sachs. The 75-year-old Nelly Sachs, who lives in Sweden, writes in German and was rescued from almost total obscurity by 1966's Nobel Prize, appears as a powerful singer of the fate of the Jewish people.

TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. The dark but often poignant revelations of Stalin's daughter about life with father.

YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945: FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, traces the last term in office of F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., and the birth of the controversial "Morgenthau Plan" for conquered Germany, which cost the crusty hawk his Cabinet post.

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 novel of considerable power.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE, THE EVOLUTION OF GENIUS, by Winifred Gerin. A meticulous biography illuminates the murky legend of the star-crossed Bronte sisters, especially Charlotte, the author of Jane Eyre.

A HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. From an unpromising cast of New Orleans drifters and wastrels, the author has fashioned one of the most vibrant first novels of the year.

THE NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NO. 1, edited by Theodore Solotaroff. In the precarious process of putting out a new literary periodical, Editor Solotaroff aims midway between big names and big, unheralded promise. One highlight: Philip Roth's The Jewish Blues, the best Jewish-family story since Salinger's Franny and Zooey.

STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. A readable biography of the aristocratic Wehrmacht officer who led the attempt to kill Hitler and overthrow Nazism.

RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren. An appreciation and lament for the poe by friends and admirers who benefited from his life and work.

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. Although his brisk prose and sentimental observations will undoubtedly nettle historians. Author Massie admirably humanizes the tragic couple who presided as semidivine personages over the last days of the Russian Empire.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Chosen, Potok (2 last week)

2. The Arrangement, Kazan (1)

3. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6)

4. A Night of Watching, Arnold (5)

5. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (10)

6. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (4)

7. The Eighth Day, Wilder (3)

8. Washington, D.C., Vidal (8)

9. Topaz, Uris (9)

10. An Operational Necessity, Griffin (7)

NONFICTION 1. Our Crowd, Birmingham (2)

2. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (1)

3. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (3)

4. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (4)

5. Incredible Victory, Lord (5)

6. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (8)

7. The Fall of Japan, Craig (9)

8. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (6)

9. The Lawyers, Mayer (7)

10. Everything But Money, Levenson (10)

-All Times E.D.T

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