Wednesday, November 6
CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "Four Views of Caesar"--Julius Caesar as seen through his own writings, those of Plutarch, Shakespeare and Shaw.
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Art Carney and Joannie Sommers.
Thursday, November 7
THE BING CROSBY SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). A special featuring Beverly Hillbilly Buddy Ebsen, who will revert to his original role of 1930s tap dancer.
Friday, November 8
BOB HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Jason Robards Jr. stars in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, from the recent novel about life in a Russian concentration camp.
Saturday, November 9
EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). David Wayne narrates The Princess of the Moon, by Fran Toor.
THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Ossie Davis plays an assistant D.A. in a drama by Reginald Rose.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:52 p.m.). The Diary of Anne Frank, starring Millie Perkins and Shelley Winters.
Sunday, November 10
DISCOVERY (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Folk songs from the Civil War to the present.
ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Howard K. Smith interviews Adlai Stevenson.
NBC NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). A repeat of a 1956 Project 20 program on World War I.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Road to Berlin," an investigation of the seeds of the Berlin crisis, the power struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. immediately following the capture of Berlin in World War II.
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A trial run of an American version of British TV's satirical revue of topical comment planned as a regular series for next season.
Monday, November 11
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Father of the Bride, with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor.
Tuesday, November 12
CALAMITY JANE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A musical special, starring Carol Burnett in the title role, Art Lund as Wild Bill Hickok.
THEATER
On Broadway
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon, puts a pair of newlyweds (Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford) in a fifth-floor Manhattan walkup, and lights a crackling bonfire of laughs around them.
JENNIE fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic impresario of a husband. Mary Martin is in top form, but she is the only thing that is in this bottom-drawer musical.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, one-acters by Peter Shaffer, argue that The Private Ear attuned to music can be hard of hearing when it comes to women, and that a thoughtful, whimsical sharing of Public Eyefuls can lead to love.
THE REHEARSAL. Anouilh's ironically gay comedy is edged in black--for the drawing-room murder of a jaded count's true love for an innocent governess.
LUTHER, by John Osborne, may scant the towering Christian, but it is a dynamic portrait of a fiery Promethean rebel. To see Albert Finney in Luther is to watch chained lightning hit the boards.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker. With folk song, hortatory example and fond abuse, a U-born R.A.F. rebel tries to arouse his non-U fellow conscripts to a sense of Establishment wrongs and lower-class rights.
HERE'S LOVE, by Meredith Willson, takes place during the Christmas season, but it lacks the holiday gifts of song and story that Willson brought to Music Man. All tinsel but no tingle, Love needs more than Santa's help.
Off Broadway
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, is about that debased, fallen being called Man, who, in some unassailable corner of his tarnished soul, yearns for, reflects, and presupposes a radiant otherness called God. Justice is a play to disturb the mind and chill the soul.
CINEMA
TOM JONES. A peerless comic novel of two centuries ago has been pinched, patted, fondled and smacked into sidesplittingly funny life by Director Tony Richardson. As the hero, Albert Finney makes Olde England jolly indeed, and Hugh Griffith richly earns bed and bawd in a rakehell portrayal of Squire Western.
THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS. In this sensitive first film, Director Ermanno Olmi places one gentle Italian lad inside a large business building and poignantly documents his long, hard climb to clerical non-entity behind a desk of his very own.
MY LIFE TO LIVE. French Director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) turns a camera full of love and artistry upon his wife (Anna Karina), who, in a dozen impeccably filmed episodes, depicts the oddly satisfying salvation of a woman who leaves home and hearth for harlotry.
THE MUSIC ROOM. A proud old aristocrat loses family and fortune trying to save face, and the resulting film underscores anew the genius of India's Satyajit Ray, creator of the Apu trilogy.
THE SUITOR. A young French funnyman named Pierre Etaix wrote, directed and personally interprets this remarkable succession of sight gags.
THE LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career in one of the year's finest films: Luchino Visconti's noble, ironic and richly mournful lament for the death of feudalism in Sicily.
THE CONJUGAL BED. A very funny, very salty Italian tale about a middle-aged man (Ugo Tognazzi) who marries a young girl (Marina Vlady) and makes an embarrassing discovery: the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, are pretty to look at but tiring to harvest.
THE RUNNING MAN. With Britain's Sir Carol Reed (The Third Man) deftly applying each turn of the screw, Lee Remick and Laurence Harvey sweat it out as a couple who feign death (his) and grief (hers), then flee to Spain with the insurance money.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE McLANDRESS DIMENSION, by Mark Epernay. A slyly satiric formula for estimating the character of statesmen and public personages by calculating their ability to concentrate on something other than themselves and ironic assaults on the dignity of bureaucracy. The pseudonymous author is ex-Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith.
TELEPHONE POLES, by John Updike. Poems of grace, brevity, wit and wisdom by a man who was a light-versifier before he was a novelist.
THE HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who begins to lose his sincerity in the smugger swamps of suburbia.
THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "Read this letter twice!" Fitzgerald once wrote to his daughter in the course of advising her about love, money and manners. Most of these letters to her and to his friends are worth reading at least once.
JOHN KEATS, by Walter Jackson Bate; JOHN KEATS, by Aileen Ward. Both these new biographies contest the legend of Keats as a romantic weakling "half in love with easeful death," reveal him instead as a vigorous, tough-minded young man who fought his fatal disease as stubbornly as he did the local bully. Bate concentrates on the poet's work, Miss Ward on the poet's life.
OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS, by Jean Genet. Written in prison, this first novel by the author of The Blacks is part scatology, part pornography, and a monstrous, well-sustained literary diary of a man's single-minded pursuit of evil in search of his own soul.
BEYOND THE MELTING POT, by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan. The authors' conclusion is that the pot does not melt. Their blunt approach to the thickets of sociology makes excellent reading.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (4)
4. Caravans, Michener (3)
5. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden
6. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (5)
7. The Three Sirens, Wallace (7)
8. The Collector, Fowles (6)
9. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes
10. The Living Reed, Buck (8)
NONFICTION
1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (2)
2. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (1)
3. Rascal, North (5)
4. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (3)
5. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (4)
6. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (6)
7. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (10)
8. A Kind of Magic, Ferber (8)
9. The Education of American Teachers, Conant (7)
10. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (9)
* All times E.S.T.
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