Wednesday, December 11
CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The temper of the Harlem Negro is examined through some of his leaders. Participants include Malcolm X, Harlem leader of the Black Muslims; Representative Adam Clayton Powell; and Whitney Young Jr., national executive director of the Urban League.
Friday, December 13
MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Mr. Magoo plays Scrooge in this animated version of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Color. Repeat.
THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guests are Bing Crosby, Janet Leigh, and Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Saturday, December 14 EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). The story of Lorenzo de Medici is told for children. Color.
Sunday, December 15
NBC CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). Orchestral music is explained by means of stories and illustrations. The program includes Prokofiev's Cinderella suite and selections from Carmen. Color.
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Dramatization of the events in George Frederick Handel's life that led him to compose The Messiah, starring Walter Slezak and Maureen O'Hara. Color.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A look at the new SAC, as it adjusts to the era of missiles.
THE MAKING OF A PRO (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). New York Giant Quarterback Glynn Griffing, the young Mississippian, is the focus of this look at the quarterback's crucial role. Color.
Monday, December 16 BREAKING POINT (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Lillian Gish plays an aging actress who refuses to accept the death of her husband.
Tuesday, December 17 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Soprano Birgit Nilsson, Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, and Pianist Lorin Hollander.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE, as adapted by Edward Albee from Carson McCullers' novella, reproduces the story's mood of Southern grotesquerie. Unfortunately, the play itself is wispy and intangible despite the strenuous acting efforts of Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK should probably insure its audiences with Lloyd's of London, just in case anyone dies laughing. Playwright Neil Simon's unpredictable wit, Mike Nichols' spry direction, and Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley's comic finesse as a pair of blissfully wacky newlyweds provide incessant merriment.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two tenderly playful one-acters by Peter Shaffer, examine the love of a sensitive lad fumbling toward a misconceived joy and a drowning May-September marriage that needs artificial respiration to bring it back to life.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, strafes, bombs and generally demolishes U and non-U types at an R.A.F. training base. The chief weapon is laughter, as Wesker admonishes the proles to stop kowtowing to their superiors as if they were superior.
THE REHEARSAL. Playwright Jean Anouilh achjsves a stylish symbiosis of good and evil, in which the pure love of a young girl is subverted by a drawing-room coterie, which in turn finds that it can no longer treat love as a game.
Off Broadway
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE. Playwright Ugo Betti finds a tiny glint of light in the tarnished soul of a corrupt justice and gives it a chance to shine after a suffocating night journey through the earthly kingdom of evil.
THE STREETS OF NEW YORK blinks rather amusingly through the crocodile tears of Dion Boucicault's 19th century melodrama. The singing voices in this lively musical have near-perfect pitch, and the spoofing is stylish.
CINEMA
HIGH AND LOW. In modern Yokohama, a kidnaper bungles his attempt to nab a wealthy shoemaker's child. And Director Akira Kurosawa demonstrates that all it takes is genius to transform a routine suspense yarn into fascinating drama.
THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. To brighten the season, Santa's Helper Walt Disney presents Tao the cat, Bodger the bull terrier and Luath the Labrador retriever making their way home across 250 miles of rough Canadian terrain, and straight into the affections of the young-at-heart.
NIGHT TIDE. The age-old legend of the mariner and the mermaid brought up to date by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington, whose offbeat first feature turns a Venice, Calif., amusement park into a mystical land of Edgar Allan Poetry.
KNIFE IN THE WATER. In this deft Polish thriller, two lusty men and one bikini-clad woman go out in a sloop to sail--and Director Roman Polanski sets them tacking on a zigzag course between the Ego and the Id.
THERESE. A beautiful but bookish adaptation of Francois Mauriac's 1927 novel owes a lot to the pellucid performance of Emmanuele Riva (star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour) as a bored young provincial wife who tries to do away with her husband.
TOM JONES. Albert Finney is Tom. Hugh Griffith is Squire Western. And Director Tony Richardson is the man responsible for wresting a movie masterpiece from Fielding's ribald classic about the "favourite Follies and Vices" of 18th century England.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE WANTING SEED, by Anthony Burgess. Taking overpopulation as his theme, Novelist Burgess has measured its possible effects in a gruesome cautionary tale of the future wherein infanticide, cannibalism and government-planned extermination are imperative for survival of the human race.
APOLLINAIRE, by Francis Steegmuller. An excellent biography separating fact from the multiplying legends about the flamboyant French poet who was an early experimental voice in modern French poetry and the cultural midwife of the cubist movement in painting.
THE FIRST DAY OF FRIDAY, by Honor Tracy. Although this light satire about an impoverished Irish vicar does not quite make it down the author's Straight and Narrow Path, it is still mad enough to make good reading.
GEORGE C. MARSHALL: EDUCATION OF A GENERAL, 1880-1939, by Forrest C. Pogue. Ending with the general's appointment in 1939 as Roosevelt's chief of staff, this first volume of a three-volume biography seeks the hidden warmth in the man who baffled most by his icy reticence.
THE COLD WAR AND THE INCOME TAX, by Edmund Wilson. An ordeal by bureaucracy, which can be read with considerable sympathy until the author confuses his own small experience in income tax delinquency with the cold war and the space race.
DOROTHY AND RED, by Vincent Sheean. Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis were mismarried for 14 years. He drank like a fish; she harassed him by conducting stifling salons. She also recorded all the grim details in her diary, and whatever she missed Old Friend Sheean provides in a running commentary of his own.
THE FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA, by Bertram Wolfe. The artist's life was like his murals: colorful, complicated and done on a grand scale. Though he was a loudly enthusiastic Communist for most of his life, his work was espoused by critics and capitalists rather than the masses, and Wolfe records every fierce conflict with both.
A SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. Graves, ghosts and cryptic portents of the Gothic novel transposed in Joycean prose to contemporary Manhattan, funny even when deadly serious.
THE HAT ON THE BED, by John O'Hara. As a novelist, O'Hara has lately faltered, but the more short stories he writes the better he gets, and this newest collection refracts with flawless skill the sights, sounds and thoughts of four decades of American life.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
3. The Venetian Affair, MacInnes (4)
4. Caravans, Michener (6)
5. The Living Reed, Buck (3)
6. The Three Sirens, Wallace (7)
7. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (8)
8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (5)
9. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara
10. City of Night, Rechy (9)
NONFICTION
1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1)
2. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (5)
3. Rascal, North (3)
4. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (4)
5. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (6)
6. Dorothy and Red, Sheean
7. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (7)
8. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (10)
9. My Life and Loves, Harris
10. The Education of American Teachers, Conant (9)
*All times E.S.T.
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