TELEVISION

Wednesday, March 2

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* William Shatner stars in a drama about a jungle doctor accused of malpractice and murder.

Thursday, March 3

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Devil at Four O'clock. Spencer Tracy, as a hardhanded Irish-American priest, and Frank Sinatra, as a hard-case Italo-American criminal, invoke the blessings of heaven in their work at a children's leper colony situated on the slopes of a volcano that may erupt any moment.

Friday, March 4

THE SAMMY DAVIS JR. SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Sammy's third appearance of the season will have more of himself and less of his friends. Guests include the Supremes and Jonathan Winters.

Saturday, March 5

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The World Ski Jumping championship from Oslo, Norway; the Daytona 500 Stock Car championship from Daytona, Fla.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Five Pennies. This movie biography of Jazz Musician Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols is laden with heroics and sentimentality, but Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong have a ball and save the show.

Sunday, March 6

CBS NEWS RELIGIOUS BROADCAST (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). A tour around the new Israel Museum in Jerusalem to see exhibits ranging from 5th century Persian gold ornaments to Picasso and op art.

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Part 3 of "In Search of Ezra Pound" traces Pound's childhood, college life and self-exile in Europe.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Nehru: Man of Two Worlds" highlights Nehru's career from his days in prison to his election as independent India's first Prime Minister.

WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of the story about a girl who wants to dance, filmed with the Royal Danish Ballet.

Tuesday, March 8

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Our Friends, the French": the state of the Franco-American alliance as seen through the eyes of Frenchmen.

THEATER

On Broadway

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! is an honest and lyrical, sentimental and humorous account of a young Irishman's preparations to leave his homeland for America. A uniformly excellent cast is headed by Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, who play the hero's inner and outer selves.

SWEET CHARITY. As a taxi dancer in search of lasting love, Gwen Verdon is Terpsichore's darling and fortune's foil.

Bob Fosse's choreography sizzles, but Neil Simon's book is a burnt-out case.

INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell, all the while lashing out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes.

THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE blends Brecht with the Theater of Cruelty, mixing in philosophy, revolution and insanity. A skin-tingling assault on the senses.

CACTUS FLOWER is a French bonbon oozing with sex. Barry Nelson is a sybaritic dentist who is affair-prone; Lauren Bacall plays the slightly soured nurse who saves him--then conquers him. Director Abe Burrows keeps this candied love apple dripping with amusement.

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU. A note of nostalgia and innocence is struck by the APA repertory company in its stylish revival of the 1936 George Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy classic.

Off Broadway

THE MAD SHOW. With only a passing nod to Mad magazine, this revue satirizes TV kiddie shows, soap-flake operas, recording stars. It has more jaw than teeth, but the show is entertaining.

HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the story of the making and unmaking of an American politician.

THE WHITE DEVIL. A revival in modern dress recaptures all the gory gothic elements of John Webster's 17th century melodrama of destruction wrought by ambition, greed, murder and revenge.

RECORDS

Folk & Other

PAUL BUTTERFIELD, at 24, is a virtuoso on the harmonica, the new "in" instrument that folk aficionados, picking up an old colloquialism, call a "harp." Butterfield's harp is electrically amplified, and he gets extraordinary saxophone-like effects with it. On his first album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (Elektra), he not only blows a wild-sweet harp but also shows that he is one of the best young bluesmen around by singing the likes of Shake Your Money-Maker and Thank You Mr. Poobah, vigorously backed by guitars, drums, organ and bass.

SANDY BULL, an accomplished guitarist, plays folk music as well as jazz, classical works and his own too-lengthy ragalike musings. His Inventions (Vanguard) includes such surprises as a Bach gavotte played on an electric guitar with an organlike sonority, a 14th century ballad performed on oud, banjo and guitar, and a swinging selection of 20th century rhythm and blues.

HARRY BELAFONTE heard Nana Mouskouri, 28, singing in a supper club outside Athens and brought her to the U.S. to tour and record with him some Songs from Greece (RCA Victor), with folk lyrics but melodies mostly by Manos (Never on Sunday) Hadjidakis. Greek is a poetic language of love for Belafonte's mellifluous voice (In the Small Boat, Walking on the Moon). Mouskouri adds some dreamlike songs about freedom (The Town Crier, The Baby Snake).

AMALIA RODRIGUEZ, one of Portugal's most marketable exports, is queen of the lemon-flavored cafe song known as fado. (Fado literally means fate and is always cruel.) Amalia's new album, called the Soul of Portugal (Columbia), contains a dozen fados (Corner of Sin, Useless Angel), similar in mood to Edith Piaf's chansons but stamped with Portuguese rhythms and Amalia's tangy timber.

KENNETH MCKELLAR, a stylish Scottish tenor who is equally at home singing Handel arias, gives meticulous attention to Greensleeves and Other Songs of the British Isles (London). Abetted by a sensitive orchestral accompaniment, McKellar's expressiveness and polish bring freshness to such faded ballads as The Last Rose of Summer and Ye Banks and Braes.

THE ROMEROS, which is to say the young Spanish guitarists Celin, Angel and Pepe, along with their father Celedonia, perform An Evening of Flamenco Music (Mercury). The quartet plays four of the gypsy dances, but the most brilliant interludes are Pepe's solos, including the flashy Bulerias and the moody Granadias.

CINEMA

THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Folksy humor and lyrical fantasy heighten the impact of this masterly Czech tragedy--a deceptively simole tale of a henpecked nobody (Josef Kroner) who befriends but ultimately betrays the doomed old Jewess (Ida Kaminska) whose button shop is given to him by Nazis ruling a complacent Slovakian village in 1942.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. An Italian Communist, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, vividly re-creates the world and work of Christ with a cast of non-professional actors, a script taken line for line from Scripture, and a blessed absence of the usual conventions.

KING AND COUNTRY. The trial and execution of a pathetic World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) mean agony for the officer (Dirk Bogarde) assigned to defend him in this rigorous British drama by Joseph Losey (The Servant).

THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. While the wreckage of a twin-engined transport sizzles in mid-Sahara, Director Robert Aldrich coolly studies a crew of survivors headed by James Stewart in their attempt to escape on a wing and a prayer.

OTHELLO. Playing the Moor of Venice in blackface, Laurence Olivier often strikes verbal fire from the kindling poetry of Shakespeare's tragedy but fails to ignite the smoldering passion of the inner man.

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Before and after the Russian Revolution, lovers move through a many-splendored landscape in David Lean's version of Pasternak's classic. Omar Sharif is Zhivago, Julie Christie his Lara.

REPULSION. Terror shrouds a London flat in this classic chiller about a demure blonde murderess (Catherine Deneuve) and her eager suitors.

THUNDERBALL. The latest James Bond survival kit includes an Aqualung, a backpack jet and, again, Sean Connery conquering the fair sex and some foul foes.

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. This strong, stark adaptation of John le Carre's novel has Richard Burton giving his best screen performance as a burnt-out British agent sent to set a diabolical trap for a tireless foe (Oskar Werner) in East Germany.

DARLING. Low jinks in the jet set, with Julie Christie bouncing from pillow to post.

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Baubles, bangles and Freudian beads bob to the surface when Director Federico Fellini (8 1/2) plumbs the subconscious of a matron (Giulietta Masina) beset by marital woes.

BOOKS

Best Reading

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, by Kenneth Rexroth. Novel it is not, but it is a novel autobiography of an old bohemian, who describes with much wit and some wisdom the anarchists, pacifists, ragged Utopians and plain cranks he encountered during a merrily freewheeling life.

THE MEMOIRS OF FIELD-MARSHAL KEITEL, Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945, edited by Walter Gorlitz. Completed just before he was hanged as a war criminal, this memoir by Hitler's top military man gives a fascinating account of the last days of the Wehrmacht as well as a chilling insight into the moral myopia that afflicted the Nazi high command.

ALLENBY OF ARABIA, by Brian Gardner. An eloquent and meticulous biography of Sir Edmund Allenby, the great British general whose Palestine campaign knocked Turkey out of World War I.

A CHOICE OF WEAPONS, by Gordon Parks. The well-known Negro photographer recounts without a trace of self-pity his struggle to find a better weapon than hatred to use against the injustices he encountered in a white man's society.

IN COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. The darkest side of murder--in this case the slaughter of a farm family in Kansas--is illuminated with a fidelity that makes the act as real as it was meaningless.

A VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. This wry account of a young Briton's jousts with the military bullies and oafs stationed on Gibraltar during and after World War II shines like a Faberge bauble when compared with the usual assortment of wartime reminiscences.

THE PROUD TOWER, by Barbara Tuchman. The author skillfully reconstructs the edifice of Europe--comfortable, complacent, seemingly secure--that was to topple before the guns of August 1914.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Source, Michener (1 last week)

2. Those Who Love, Stone (2)

3. The Double Image, Maclnnes (3)

4. The Embezzler, Auchincloss (7)

5. The Comedians, Greene (5)

6. The Lockwood Concern, O'Hara (4)

7. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (6)

8. The Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton (9)

9. Thomas, Mydans (8)

10. The Rabbi, Gordon

NONFICTION

1. In Cold Blood, Capote (1)

2. The Proud Tower, Tuchman (3)

3. A Thousand Days, Schlesinger (2)

4. Games People Play, Berne (4)

5. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (6)

6. Kennedy, Sorensen (5)

7. The Penkovskiy Papers, Penkovskiy (7)

8. The Last 100 Days, Toland

9. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (8)

10. A Gift of Joy, Hayes (9)

* All times E.S.T.

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