Wednesday, February 2 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Jane Wyman stars in a drama about a woman falsely judged as fallen.
Thursday, February 3
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Magnificent Yankee, an award-winning adaptation of the Broadway play about the life of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife Fanny. With Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Rerun.
Friday, February 4
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Maurice Evans is the guest star in "The Wounded Time Affair," in which he plays a nonagenarian politician who is fed a youth formula by his fiancee (Vera Miles). First of two parts.
Saturday, February 5
SEVENTH ANNUAL BOB HOPE DESERT GOLF CLASSIC (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Celebrities and pros tee up at La Quinta Country Club in Palm Springs, Calif.
CBS EVENING NEWS WITH ROGER MUDD (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The network expands its evening news to six times a week, all in color, with this first Saturday broadcast.
Sunday, February 6
DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.).
"The Mysterious World of Muriel Spark," a dramatic rendering by Marion Seldes, John Heffernan and Louis Turenne of some of the author's caustic short stories.
CONTINUATION OF THE BOB HOPE GOLF CLASSIC (NBC, 3:30-5 p.m.). The final rounds.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). An inquiry into "How to Fight a Guerrilla War," based on the British experiences in Malaya between 1948 and 1960. Hopeful comparisons are drawn with Viet Nam.
THE VOICE OF THE DRAGON (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). To illustrate this documentary on mass indoctrination by the Chinese Communists, NBC bought extensive film footage from a French camera crew that spent four months in Red China.
THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The Three Faces of Eve, with Joanne Woodward, who won a well-deserved 1957 Academy Award for her portrayal in the film of a girl whose personality keeps splitting.
Monday, February 7
MARY MARTIN: HELLO, DOLLY! ROUND THE WORLD (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Performer Martin narrates a color camera report on the Tokyo, Viet Nam and London tour of Hello, Dolly! including some footage of Good Queen Bess II greeting Producer David Merrick and his cast.
Tuesday, February 8
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).
"Sixteen in Webster Groves," a report on the American 16-year-old based on a University of Chicago study of the teen-age species in a St. Louis suburb.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. Each theater seat becomes an electric chair as Director Peter Brook and the Royal Shakespeare Company sear the senses with a high-voltage production of Peter Weiss's shocking, stunning play.
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Bill Maitland is a modern antihero, muddled by progress, maddened by the machine, and mangled by his acute awareness that he is irredeemably mediocre. With astounding authority, 28-year-old Actor Nicol Williamson draws all the caustic humor and curdling vituperation from John Osborne's words.
CACTUS FLOWER. A playboy dentist (Barry Nelson) who has drilled himself into a trap of lies persuades his spinsterish nurse (Lauren Bacall) to fill in as his "wife" because his mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) won't agree to marry him until she meets his supposed spouse. Abe Burrows directs this daft farce with a deft touch.
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU. High spirits and high jinks are the household gods of the blithe Sycamore family. The 29-year-old play is an American comedy classic, though its zaniness is less evident now than its tender and nostalgic reminders of an age of innocence.
THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN is a dazzling theatrical spectacle but fails to touch the nerve center of emotion and drama. Christopher Plummer gives a forceful interpretation of the stormy Conquistador Pizarro in Peru.
RECORDS
Pop LPs
MARY POPPINS EN FRANCAIS (Vista). The Sherman brothers' songs "have made the rounds of the pop singers and the jazz bands and now turn up, very much at home, translated into French. Christiane LeGrand, the French soprano soloist of the Swingle Singers, tries to keep it sweet and simple but breaks into a bit of high-spirited scat singing in Un P'tit Morceau de Sucre and sounds, as they say in Paris, supercalifragilisticexpidelilicieux.
MAN OF LA MANCHA (Kapp). The cast recording of the season's most imaginative musical betrays the play's sentimentality but boasts a tuneful if obvious score by Mitch Leigh, who has composed everything from opera to TV commercials. Joan Diener exaggerates her trollop's complaints as she screeches "One pair of arms is like another," but Richard Kiley as Don Quixote does well by The Impossible Dream and Dulcinea.
THE BAROQUE BEATLES BOOK (Elektra).
This musical spoof sounds almost like Bach. The themes, of course, are pure McCartney-Lennon, but they are treated in authentic baroque style by some excellent classical musicians who call themselves the Baroque Ensemble of the Merseyside Kammermusikgesellschaft. Selections include a suite, The Royale Beatleworks Musicke, and a Cantata for the Third Saturday after Shea Stadium.
ROBERT GOULET ON BROADWAY (Columbia). Goulet attacks each show tune as though it came from Il Trovatore. He can make lyrics like "Say I'm your Valentine" sound like the declaration of dark passion and Hello, Dolly! become a grand official greeting. Much of the music benefits from being made to sound important.
THE SCREEN SCENE, STARRING PETER NERO (RCA Victor). Hollywood seems to be making more indelible music than Broadway. Thunderball, Forget Domani, The Shadow of Your Smile and Ship of Fools provide a varied program for nimble Pianist Peter Nero, who keeps an orchestra at hand to buttress his moods, among them humor: What's New Pussycat? and Help! get full and funny treatment.
MAY THE BIRD OF PARADISE FLY UP YOUR NOSE (Columbia). "Little" Jimmy Dickens, the country singer, has been getting some attention in the city because of the colorful malediction of his title song. The album's other lyrics, sung to interchangeable tunes, are a standard collection of complaints ("I got pockets full of troubles every payday"; "I can't get over me not gettin' over you").
MY WORLD (RCA Victor). "Tennessee Playboy" Eddie Arnold, after 20 years of hit making, is still climbing the pop charts (Make the World Go Away; What's He Doin' in My World). His mellifluous, high tenor voice is as sweet as ever, but the Nashville Sound is beginning to take on the airs of the Melachrino Strings.
CINEMA
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. In Director David Lean's literate, magnificently visualized version of Boris Pasternak's monumental bestseller, the romance of Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) dominates a vast canvas of war and social upheaval.
OHAYO. The easy rhythm of middle-class existence in suburban Tokyo is the plot and soul of a gentle family comedy by the late Yasujiro Ozu, Japan's most celebrated film poet.
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD.
Richard Burton, at his very best, gets sturdy opposition from Oskar Werner in a skillful version of the John le Carre thriller about a British Intelligence man who poses as a defector to East Germany.
THUNDERBALL. The slightly faded James Bond formula is brightened by spectacular underwater effects, a few splashy conquests, and Sean Connery, who by now delivers his Jimcracks martini-dry.
VIVA MARIA! Some camera magic by French Cinematographer Henri Decae helps Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot inflame the peasantry in Louis Malle's higgledy-piggledy farce about a pair of strip queens involved in a Central American revolution.
REPULSION. The nightmare deeds of a fragile blonde psychopath (Catherine Deneuve) are shown in excruciating detail by a master of the macabre, Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water).
DARLING. This jet-set satire with trimmings of pathos is tailor-made for Julie Christie's stylish performance as the amoral jade who sleeps her way from pad to palazzo.
KING RAT. A shrewd G.I. con man (George Segal) exploits his buddies for fun and profit in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's harsh, searching drama about survival of the fittest in a Japanese prison camp during World War II.
THE LEATHER BOYS. Rita Tushingham, as a teen-aged trollop who nearly loses her restless young husband to his motorcycling mate, in a freewheeling portrait of British youth.
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. A betrayed wife (Giulietta Masina) reviews her life in lovely full-color fantasies staged by Director Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2), the Barnum of the avantgarde.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE INNOCENT EYE, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. Robert Flaherty is described in this admirable biography as the archetype of the artist-adventurer: a steel-hewed Irishman who spent the first half of his life exploring the Arctic, a Blake-like visionary who spent the second half inventing the documentary film and producing its early masterworks--Nanook of the North, Moana, Louisiana Story.
IN COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. In an effort to expand the dimensions of journalism by exploring the subsurface of a vicious and senseless murder, Novelist Capote has permanently enriched and amplified the reporter's craft.
A THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Other New Frontiersmen stood closer to the President, but none has been better equipped--or more successful--than Harvard Historian Schlesinger in describing the moods and assessing the deeds of the Kennedy Administration.
THE PROUD TOWER, by Barbara Tuchman. In The Guns of August Historian Tuchman presented a perceptive and appalling analysis of the military catastrophe of 1914. In this sequel, she steps back a few years and examines with equal sharpness a luxurious and unheeding Europe as it drifted toward disaster.
THE EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. An artful and poetic first novel about the holiday affair of two not-too-young, not-too-attractive lovers in Italy.
BERNARD SHAW: COLLECTED LETTERS (1874-1897), edited by Dan H. Laurence. Nearly 700 letters--anecdotal, flirtatious, argumentative--are more than just the brilliant babble of a compulsive correspondent. They comprise an autobiography of G.B.S.'s prodigious early years as music and drama critic, socialist propagandist and philanderer.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Source, Michener (1 last week)
2. Those Who Love, Stone (2)
3. The Lockwood Concern, O'Hara (3)
4. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (4)
5. Airs Above the Ground, Stewart (6)
6. The Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton (5)
7. Hotel, Hailey (8)
8. Thomas, Mydans (7)
9. The Double Image, MacInnes
10. The Honey Badger, Ruark (10)
NONFICTION
1. A Thousand Days, Schlesinger (1)
2. In Cold Blood, Capote (4)
3. Games People Play, Berne (3)
4. Kennedy, Sorensen (2)
5. The Proud Tower, Tuchman (6)
6. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (5)
7. The Penkovskiy Papers, Penkovskiy (9)
8. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (7)
9. A Gift of Joy, Hayes (8)
10. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (10)
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