Wednesday, March 18 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).-Julie Harris and Dirk Bogarde in a new production of the James Costigan drama, Little Moon of Alban, originally presented in 1958. Color.
Friday, March 20
THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope stars as the editor of Bachelor Magazine, Eva Marie Saint as a schoolmarm bent on suppressing his publication. Color.
INSIDE THE MOVIE KINGDOM (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). A look at today's top screen stars at work and at play, in a series of vignettes filmed on location. Among them: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Paul Newman and Claudia Cardinale.
THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Joan Hackett, Kevin McCarthy and Kathy Nolan in a murder story about two former school friends and a photographer.
Saturday, March 21
THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Nat King Cole is host to Singer Diahann Carroll, Comics Marty Allen and Steve Rossi.
Sunday, March 22
FACE THE NATION (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.).
Guest: Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
NBC OPERA (NBC, 1-4 p.m.). Bach's St. Matthew Passion, sung in English, is conducted by Alfred Wallenstein. Color.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A look at the new vertical-takeoff jets.
EMPIRE (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Keir Dullea portrays a former rodeo rider who has become an embittered cripple. Color.
THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). An hour of Judy's singing.
DU PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A behind-the-scenes tour with the Flying Wallendas, the famed high-wire troupe whose act has been dogged by tragedy.
THEATER
On Broadway
ANY WEDNESDAY. Sandy Dennis as a kept woman in a peignoir looks about as sophisticated as a teen-ager wobbling in her first pair of heels. Later, clutching a closetful of balloons, she appears about to take off, which this delightfully wacky comedy does from the start.
FOXY is a vaudeville version of Volpone which permits Master Clown Bert Lahr to play hide-and-sucker with the gold diggers of the Yukon.
DYLAN. A legendary actor, Alec Guinness, plays a legendary poet, Dylan Thomas, during his punishing reading tours of the U.S. The drama is sustained by Dylan's sly humor, poetic insights, self-abrasive remorse, and fierce, hurting battles with his wife.
AFTER THE FALL is a nightlong session of group therapy conducted for his own self-justification by Arthur Miller, with special attention to his mother and his wives, notably Marilyn Monroe. Elia Ka-- All times E.S.T. zan's staging is electric, but Miller has not put enough distance between his life and his craft to fashion a play. It alternates in repertory with Eugene O'Neill's MARCO MILLIONS and S. N. Behrman's BUT FOR WHOM CHARLIE.
HELLO, DOLLY! In a bouncy, daffy, romantic Little Old New York musical, Matchmaker Carol Channing juggles lonely hearts and sassily wangles one for herself.
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. Robert Preston is gleeful and guileful as a phony TV writer-producer trying to keep his career from dissolving into a test pattern.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A proper young lawyer and his minx of a wife are the explosively funny tenants of an apartment that makes the housing shortage look desperate.
Off Broadway
THE BLOOD KNOT, by Atholl Fugard.
Linked in a funny and scalding love-hate relationship, two half brothers, one black and one white, play out their fantasies in a tin shack in South Africa and become symbols that laugh, cry and bleed.
THE LOVER by Harold Pinter, and PLAY by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's couple indulge in the aphrodisiac of a make-believe affair, while Beckett's trio reveal with solemn hu mor the banality of adultery.
THE TROJAN WOMEN. A powerful revival of the Euripides classic about the agony of women who were to become slaves and bedmates of the conquering Greeks.
IN WHITE AMERICA. This series of documentary dramatic sketches about racial intolerance is moving in its self-contained pain, playfully caustic in its humor.
RECORDS
HAPPY END (Columbia) is the puniest of the four small operas written by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. While it lacks the dramatic and social force of Three penny Opera, it can nearly match its songs. The work has never been better performed than in this version. Lotte Lenya, Weill's widow and faithful interpreter, memorably croaks Surabaya Johnny, Bilbao-Song, and other dirges from the shadows.
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY (Columbia) suffered a long, unjust obscurity but may soon find its way into the opera repertory, despite the libretto's bizarre vision of capitalistic morality. This recording, now six years old, has become a classic. Lenya sings the role of Jenny the prostitute, and Heinz Sauerbaum, the great German theater tenor, is Jimmy, her doomed, desperate lover.
DAS LIED VON DER ERDE (Deutsche Grammophon) is Gustav Mahler's masterpiece. The song cycle is a rippling reflection of elegiac Chinese moods that now and then surges up to a torrential "Yes!" This version, with Mezzo Soprano Nan Merriman, Tenor Ernst Hafliger and Conductor Eugen Jochum leading the Concertgebouw Orchestra, even surpasses the excellent recording made by Merriman and Hafliger with the Concertgebouw sev en years ago.
VIENNA, 1908-1914 (Mercury) does not celebrate the vintage waltz-schmalz associated with the era, but the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who at the time formed a kind of progressive under ground in the city of Johann Strauss. Antal Dorati leads the London Symphony Orchestra in 13 orchestral pieces by the three modern masters.
REQUIEM MASS IN D MINOR (RCA Victor) was left unfinished when Mozart died at 35, and Conductor Erich Leinsdorf chose it as a symbolic tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy. This superb recording was made by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with a 180-voice choir and the extraordinary, majestic drawl of Richard Cardinal Gushing, in a solemn pontifical requiem Mass in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral. Proceeds from the record sale will go to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library fund.
CINEMA
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. In three lusty fables directed by Vittorio De Sica and co-starring Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren proves herself a versatile comedienne, a whole Italian street scene rolled into one woman.
STRAY DOG. A rookie detective (Toshiro Mifune) tracks a killer through the Tokyo underworld in a newly imported 1949 melodrama by Director Akira Kurosawa that stirs up the rubble of postwar Japan.
THE SILENCE. Two sisters united in love-hate, one a lesbian, one a nymphomaniac, desperately try to fill the emptiness of their souls with physical passion as they act out a tortured drama in which the only innocents are a child and an old man. Not Ingmar Bergman's best, but memorable.
THE FIRE WITHIN. A morbidly fascinating drama, directed by France's Louis (The Lovers) Malle, climaxes in the suicide of a charming, alcoholic gigolo (Maurice Ronet).
DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Stanley (Lolitd) Kubrick's nightmare comedy offers fine performances by George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden and the ubiquitous Peter Sellers.
THE GUEST. The screen version of Harold Pinter's drama (The Caretaker] retains its major asset, Donald Pleasence, who is still seedily eloquent in the title role.
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. As a vacillating virgin who fears she has missed a lot, Jane Fonda makes the way of all flesh appear refreshingly healthy.
THE FIANCES. Old love refurbished is the theme of a poignant little masterwork by Italian Director Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets).
TO BED OR NOT TO BED. As an Italian fur merchant on the loose in Stockholm, Alberto Sordi finds Sweden's moral climate unseasonably cool.
TOM JONES. Ten Oscar nominations are the latest evidence that Fielding's picaresque 18th century novel has become a classic screen comedy.
BOOKS
Best Reading
RACE: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA IN AMERICA, by Thomas F. Gossett. The author contends that racism would not have endured so long without the wholehearted support of intellectuals and leaders from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Roosevelt; only in the past 40 years has informed opinion given up the notion that Negroes are physiologically inferior to whites.
MISS LEONORA WHEN LAST SEEN, by Peter Taylor. Fifteen stories about corrosive marriages and disfiguring age--quiet stories, right on target, that may well outlive their flashier contemporaries.
THE CHILDREN AT THE GATE, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The author's last novel, completed before his death last year at 36, tells of a daft but saintly man and how another slowly takes life and grace from him.
THE MARTYRED, by Richard Kim. Also on a theme of spiritual agony, this remorseless and controlled first novel is set against the Korean war, and deals with the presumed martyrdom of twelve Christian ministers. Modern sainthood, the author finds, is most often achieved by men racked by doubt.
THE BARBARY LIGHT, by P. H. Newby. A slight, wise tale about a successful con man who, in an unfortunate moment of candor, decides to tell his wife and his mistress about each other. To his dismay, they become fast friends.
WHEN THE CHEERING STOPPED, by Gene Smith. For the last 17 months of his presidency, Woodrow Wilson was grievously ill, mentally and physically. Reporter Smith shows in awesome detail how the President's wife and doctors kept the knowledge from the public while "the U.S. Government went out of business."
ONE FAT ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. The author's best novel since Lucky Jim tells of the misadventures of a rich, snobbish English publisher among some very irreverent Americans.
THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. In this tender, moral tale of uprooted America, the 19th century Wapshots come to painful, if comic terms with the 20th. The survivors of The Wapshot Chronicle neither mourn nor imitate the old ways but cherish their spirit as "a vision of life as hearty and fleeting as laughter."
REUBEN, REUBEN, by Peter De Vries. A raffish, gifted poet, who closely resembles Dylan Thomas, drops in on an uppercrust U.S. suburb and sets off a series of communal binges. In the hangover, natives and commuters have brooding second thoughts about modern life.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week)
2. The Group, McCarthy (2)
3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (4)
4. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (3)
5. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (5)
6. The Martyred, Kim
7. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (10)
8. The Living Reed, Buck (7)
9. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (6) 10. The Fanatic, Levin (8)
NONFICTION NONFICTION
1. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (2) 2. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (1)
3. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (7)
4. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (3)
5. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (5)
6. The Great Treasury Raid, Stern
7. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy
8. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (4)
9. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (10)
10. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (6)
TIME, MARCH 20, 1964
* All times E.S.T.
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