Friday, February 26 INGER STEVENS IN SWEDEN (ABC, 8-9 p.m.).* The Farmer's Daughter revisits her native land, talks with former boxing champion Ingemar Johansson and Actor Max von Sydow.

THE BOB HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ginger Rogers stars as the wicked and dangerous mother-in-law of a new bride (Carol Lawrence). Color.

FDR (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Roosevelt tackles the farm crisis in the winter of 1933.

Saturday. February 27 THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Roy Rogers and Dale Evans play hosts to several singing groups and Ethel Merman, a one-woman group.

Sunday. February 28

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Recorded readings by the late poet T. S. Eliot.

DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). A study of the Christian sources and motivations for antiSemitism.

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). North American figure skating championship.

TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A look at Pop Buell, a retired Indiana farmer who has spent the past five years in Laos helping refugee tribesmen settle in new villages.

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Guests are Juliet Prowse, Bill Dana and Alan King.

THE ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Gig Young, suavest of con men, impersonates a long-lost relative of a wealthy family to claim an inheritance.

Monday, March 1

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Solo hires a singer to help trap an international jewel thief.

BEN CASEY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Viveca Lindfors stars as a domineering mother convinced her dockworker son is faking illness.

Tuesday, March 2

HULLABALOO (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tonight's host is Trini Lopez. Color.

THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Robert Goulet plays host to Eydie Gorme, Barbara Cook and Susan Watson. Color.

THEATER On Broadway TINY ALICE. Everyone's afraid of Alice in Edward Albee's brain teaser, though no one seems to know who she is. John Gielgud and Irene Worth are excellent in the respective roles of a lay brother and the world's richest woman.

POOR RICHARD. Richard, the poet-charmer on the run from his memories, may not be as engaging as the playwright's ear lier creation, Mary, the wisecracking wife on the brink of divorce, but Jean Kerr's wit keeps the play incisive and amusing.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Alan Alda hoots and Diana Sands hollers in Bill Manhoff's comedy about a mind-v.-body imbroglio between a musty book clerk and an earthy prostitute.

LUV. What's so funny about three tear-jerks on a bridge trying to outlament and outpsychologize each other? Author Murray Schisgal, Director Mike Nichols, and Performers Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin--that's what.

Off Broadway

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Tension, desperation, and ultimate tragedy invade the home of a longshoreman, his wife, and the niece whom he loves incestuously. Taut direction and an extremely able cast revivify this ten-year-old Arthur Miller drama.

WAR AND PEACE. Despite the difficulty of shrinking an oak back into an acorn, this Phoenix Theater production of the mammoth Tolstoy classic is surprisingly dramatic. In this play, and in an alternate offering, Man and Superman, individual acting egos are submerged in beautiful ensemble playing.

TARTUFFE. Moliere's humor and intent were more bitter than the Lincoln Center company's farcical interpretation of this classic comedy implies. But Michael O'Sullivan's hypocritical misanthrope is a superbly drawn character.

THE SLAVE and THE TOILET. The problem--interracial conflict--is timeless, but the expressions of hate and violence in LeRoi Jones's two one-acters are shrilly attuned to the present.

RECORDS

Chamber Music

SCHUBERT: QUINTET IN A MAJOR (Vox). Schubert wrote "The Trout" in the lightest of holiday moods, and the double bass has to tiptoe to keep the music from being heavy-footed. Georg Hortnagel handles the part with the required grace, playing with the violinist, violist and cellist of the Hungarian String Quartet. A percussive piano could also shatter Schubert's mood, but Louis Kentner's playing is gossamer. The result is a lithe, blithe dream of summer.

SHOSTAKOVICH PIANO QUINTET (L'Oiseau-Lyre). There is not much modern Russian chamber music to be heard, but probably its finest example and a credit to any age is this quintet, written in 1940 shortly after the Sixth Symphony and like it a resolution of the torment expressed in the Fifth. Its many lightly inflected moods flow peacefully together with classical clarity, interrupted in the middle by a short, funny honky-tonk of a Scherzo. The Melos Ensemble of London plays it with quiet understanding; it presents as well a sparkling, icy Prokofiev Quintet dated Paris, 1924.

FAURE: PIANO QUARTET IN G MINOR (RCA Victor). The slow passages by this master of muted color and subtle modulation are like a descent in a bathysphere. New and mysterious vistas open as the harmonies shift. The long-trailing melodies can sound flaccid but not when spun out by the Festival Quartet, including Virtuoso Violist William Primrose and Violinist Szy-mon Goldberg.

DVORAK: STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR, OPUS 96 (London). Chamber music has a reputation for being cerebral, but Dvorak makes it heady. His "American" quartet, written in 1893 on a summer visit to Spillville, Iowa, is filled with song and catchy rhythm. The excellent Janacek Quartet plays it brightly, as well as the earlier, more conventional Quartet in D Minor dedicated to Brahms.

DVORAK: STRING QUARTETS-VOLUME II (3 LPs; Vox). Convinced that Dvorak is the missing link between Brahms and Bartok in the history of chamber music, the Kohon Quartet of New York University is undertaking the first recording of all 15 of his string quartets. More interesting than Volume I. this package includes the three last quartets. Though the Kohon does not have the singing tone of the Janacek ensemble, the players know Dvorak in all his moods and are eloquent spokesmen for his art.

BRAHMS: PIANO QUINTET (Columbia). Rudolf Serkin and the members of the Budapest String Quartet are old friends but have never before recorded together. They make clear their grandly dramatic intentions when they shatter the first quiet moments with a crashing storm of protest, weighting even the Scherzo with portent. The Budapest has sounded more lustrous but never more authoritative.

CINEMA

RED DESERT. Displaying a painterly sense of color, Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, La Notte) daringly raids the spectrum to explore the neurosis of an engineer's young wife (Monica Vitti) whose problems seem aggravated by her environment--a wasteland created by heavy industry in the city of Ravenna. Oddly, Antonioni's urban inferno is often more exciting than its inhabitants.

HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE. Amiable nonsense about a buoyant bachelor cartoonist (Jack Lemmon) who wakes up married to a girl in a million (Italy's Virna Lisi) and begins to contemplate the rival benefits of home and homicide, abetted by a fastidious manservant (Terry-Thomas) who views all women as household pests.

TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC. Using the actual words spoken during Joan's heresy trial in 1431, this ascetic film transforms history into a unique drama that often looks like a 15th century news special.

MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Vice is hilar ious and virtue seems pretty earthy in Director Vittorio De Sica's sentimental account of how a Neapolitan harlot (Sophia Loren) fights and finally wins a lifelong battle to marry a rake (Marcello Mastroianni).

NOTHING BUT A MAN. This forceful drama gets under the skin of a troubled young American Negro (Ivan Dixon) who resents being stuck with a black family in a white world.

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Young love brightens up a shabby French seaport, where Director Jacques Demy sets everyone singing while he wistfully paints the town red, blue, and other sparkling primary colors.

GOLDFINGER. Ian Fleming's girl-and-gadget-happy Agent 007--alias James Bond, alias Actor Sean Connery--brilliantly foils a plot to take Fort Knox off the gold standard.

SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. A very mad, very English, very nearly preposterous melodrama about a kidnaping masterminded by an unhappy medium, played with blood-chilling conviction by American Actress Kim Stanley.

MY FAIR LADY. The bountiful classic by Lerner and Loewe out of G. B. Shaw, with Audrey Hepburn as the cockney guttersnipe who learns social graces from Rex Harrison, a masterly professor indeed.

BOOKS

Best Reading

MERIWETHER LEWIS, by Richard Dillon. An absorbing biography of the gifted young Virginian whom Jefferson sent out to explore the Louisiana territory. With William Clark, Lewis showed the way west--but he could never readjust to civilization. Three years after his triumphant return, he died under mysterious circumstances, a penniless alcoholic.

THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. A new collection representing the mature work of England's best living poet. As true and fine as his earlier work, these poems reflect a larger, yet highly personal view of the human condition.

THE ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. Thanks to the lively comic vision of Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill), the Ordways of East Texas, living and dead, make a family tree of Faulknerian dimensions.

JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A biography by a writer who knows his Swift, is also aware of the grim literary and Freudian exegeses that have clouded his brilliant satires.

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF JEAN MACAQUE, by Stuart Cloete. Having written novels about the Boer War that fell well short of Winston Churchill's real-life adventures, Cloete now busts loose with the funny story of a philandering journalist who lives it up each day to try to stave off tomorrow.

THE FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. This is a book for sidewalk superintendents of man's self-building; from excavation to tower suite, the construction of Joe Kennedy's fabulous fortune and consequent family power is painstakingly detailed.

FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. The letters, essays and memoirs of the great writer's wife show that, while on paper he might have been the prophet of free love, in his life and at home he was an emotional Victorian trying to cope with a flirtatious woman.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week)

2. The Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara (4)

3. The Man, Wallace (2)

4. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton (5)

5. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (3)

6. Hurry Sundown, Gilden (6)

7. Legend of the Seventh Virgin, Holt

8. This Rough Magic, Stewart (7)

9. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (9)

10. Covenant With Death, Becker (8)

NONFICTION

1. Markings, Hammarskjold (1)

2. Reminiscences, MacArthur (2)

3. The Founding Father, Whalen (4)

4. The Italians, Barzini (3)

5. Queen Victoria, Longford (5)

6. The Words, Sartre (6)

7. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley

8. Life With Picasso, Gilot and Lake (7)

9. My Autobiography, Chaplin (8) 10. Stage Struck, Zolotow

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