Thursday, August 11

THE AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).* "Too Many Christmas Trees" has John Steed having nightmares after a Christmas Eve party in the house of an eccentric publisher obsessed by Charles Dickens.

Friday, August 12

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). The Green Bay Packers, defending N.F.L. champions, meet the Chicago Bears at Milwaukee's County Stadium in the first of four preseason games on successive Friday nights.

Saturday, August 13

THUNDERBIRD GOLF TOURNAMENT (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Third round of the $100,000 Thunderbird Golf Tournament live from the Upper Montclair Country Club, Clifton, N.J. Fourth and final round on Sunday from 5 to 6 p.m.

Sunday, August 14

AN AFTERNOON AT TANGLEWOOD (NBC, 2:30-5 p.m.). An NBC News Special live, from the Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. The program includes Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra and solo performances by Pianist Misha Dichter and Violinist Masuko Yushioda, both winners of the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Zero Hour in Greece" begins with the winter of 1941-42, during which the Nazi policy of "extermination by starvation" took 450,000 Greek lives, and continues through the civil war that erupted following the German withdrawal. Repeat.

Tuesday, August 16

THE WORLD OF FASHION AND BEAUTY:

ITALY (ABC, 1-2 p.m.). From bikinis to bridal gowns, Italy's fashions are displayed on her most beautiful models against historic backdrops.

THE ANGRY VOICES OF WATTS: AN NBC NEWS INQUIRY (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Budd Schulberg's writers' workshop for young Negroes in Watts (TIME, July 22) is the focal point for this report, which will include poems, essays and short stories written by Schulberg's students.

THEATER

Regional

While New York remains the main stream of U.S. theater, resident and stock companies and traveling repertory groups are forming new pools of dramatic activity across the country.

LOS ANGELES. Theater Group. At U.C.L.A.'s Schoenberg Hall: The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, through Aug. 28; The Flies, by Jean-Paul Sartre, Sept. 6-Oct. 9. Association of Producing Artists. At the Huntington Hartford Theater: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, starring Helen Hayes and Melvyn Douglas, Aug. 8-13; George Kaufman and Moss Hart's You Can't Take It With You, Aug. 15-20; Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are If You Think You Are, Aug. 22-27. At the Greek Theater: an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Aug. 31-Sept. 10.

SEATTLE. A Contemporary Theater. A Thurber Carnival, by James Thurber, Aug. 2-15; Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Physicists, Aug. 16-29; Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace, Aug. 30-Sept. 11; Harold Pinter's The Collection and The Room, Sept. 12-15.

MINNEAPOLIS. Minnesota Theater Company. At the Tyrone Guthrie Theater: August Strindberg's The Dance of Death; Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth; William Shakespeare's As You Like It; alternating through Sept. 4.

YPSILANTI, MICH. Ypsilanti Greek Theater. Judith Anderson in the Oresteia of Aeschylus; Bert Lahr in Aristophanes' The Birds, alternating through Sept. 4.

STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. Theater Festival at the Berkshire Playhouse: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Aug. 2-15; The Invigorating Effect of Money and Other Matters, a revue, Aug. 16-21.

OLNEY, MD. At the Olney Theater: James Joyce's Stephen D., adapted by Hugh Leonard, starring George Grizzard, Aug. 3-21.

RECORDS

Orchestral

BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 5 and MOZART: SYMPHONY NO. 36 (Philips). The finale of Bruckner's symphony is a gigantic musical whirlpool into which all the themes of the previous movements are sucked, and the effect practically drowns the listener. The Mozart will revive him with its fresh and open cadences. Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Eugen Jochum, carries out the demanding task with honors. The record company achieved this curious coupling by choosing two works that happened to be composed in the Austrian town of Linz--Bruckner's during a twelve-year stint as organist there, Mozart's dashed off against a deadline while he was passing through. All of which brings to mind other interesting possibilities--for instance, Aaron Copland and Barbra Streisand both come from Brooklyn.

TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS FOR STRINGS (Angel). Yehudi Menuhin, as conductor and solo violinist, has chosen 20th century gems to show off some sparkling stringwork: a Bartok divertimento, Stravinsky's Concerto in D, and five little Hindemith sketches, written for string orchestra. All the selections are sharp, clear, linear, ingenious. Though Hindemith wrote "for beginners who are strong players," the other works are formidable tests of skill, and the Bath Festival Orchestra handles them admirably.

MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 6 and BERG: LE VIN (RCA Victor). Not performed in the U.S. until 1947, the Sixth is the least known but possibly the most contemporary of Mahler's symphonies. Raw and jarring, it opens like Beethoven's Fifth, with a short rapping theme, and grows into the hammer blows of doom. The work seems to reflect the composer's ill health and the imminent death of his infant daughter with such agony that Frau Mahler once said: "In the last movement, he described himself and his downfall." Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston expose every musical nerve.

DVORAK: SYMPHONY NO. 7 (Columbia). Dvorak wrote the Seventh immediately after visiting Brahms and hearing parts of his Third Symphony. Brahms breathes through much of this graceful, pleasing work, but in the scherzo, the Czech in Dvorak breaks into a peasant waltz passage that is the heart of the composition. Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic are appropriately elegant and ardent by turns.

MOZART: SYMPHONIES NO. 40 and 41 (London). Kierkegaard once said that Mozart spread joy like a god, and some of the purest pleasure may be found in this recording of Mozart's last symphonies, the somber 40th and the triumphant "Jupiter." Though better known for his operatic and choral conducting, Carlo Maria Giulini leads the New Philharmonia Orchestra in a precise, yet buoyant and virile performance that marks him as a major Mozart interpreter.

BERLIOZ (London). Eight pieces for orchestra from Berlioz's dramatic and operatic music, including excerpts from The Damnation of Faust, Beatrice and Benedict and Benvenuto Cellini. Under the venerable Ernest Ansermet, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande sounds intimate and flexible, less a precision instrument than a largish chamber group.

DEBUSSY (London). Ansermet again, hovering like a beneficent moon over the changing surface of Debussy's La Mer. The old maestro is the world's foremost Debussy interpreter; and here, conducting L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande as he has since he founded it 48 years ago, he provides a link with World War I Paris, where Debussy's work marked the end of romantic orchestration.

ClNEMA

KHARTOUM. Cinerama recaptures the spectacular drama of the 1884 siege of Khartoum, where British General Charles Gordon (Charlton Heston) managed to withstand the Moslem assaults led by the Mahdi (Laurence Olivier) for 317 days before dying in one of history's more fascinating lost causes.

HOW TO STEAL A MILLION. This comedy about a museum heist displays Audrey Hepburn as a would-be burglar and Peter O'Toole as her accomplice.

WALK, DON'T RUN. Cary Grant plays a debonair matchmaker who tries his best to ignite sparks between Samantha Eggar and Jim Hutton, in a civilized comedy set in a crowded Tokyo flat.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee's corrosive play about the love-hate relationship between a middle-aged faculty couple, Martha and George, is just as brutal and just as funny in the screen version starring the Burtons, Elizabeth and Richard.

THE ENDLESS SUMMER. Two young California surfers hit the beaches of Africa, Australia, Tahiti and Hawaii, where they discover that surfing is fast becoming an international pastime.

THE NAKED PREY. Director-Star Cornel Wilde in an unaccustomed and brilliant role as a white hunter desperately trying to escape native man-hunters in 19th century Africa.

"THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." As a Soviet sailor whose sub has run aground on an island off the New England coast, Broadway's Alan Arkin makes a feature-film debut that may well win him an Oscar.

AND NOW MIGUEL. Life on a sheep ranch in the high plateau country of New Mexico proves adventurous for ten-yearold Miguel (Pat Cardi), whose only real problem is growing up.

LE BONHEUR. French Director Agnes Varda explores the gulf between male and female sensibility in this fable of marital infidelity.

BORN FREE. How a tamed lion learns to survive in the wilderness is told in an enthralling adventure film based on the bestseller by Joy Adamson.

BOOKS

Best Reading

GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology and sex in which a goat (or is it a boy?) appears as the Messiah of a new religion.

HOW DID IT BEGIN? by Rudolph Brasch. An Australian rabbi has collected an intellectual's compendium of trivia dealing with the origins of countless things from trouser cuffs to caesarean births to soap. The effect is as irresistible as peanuts at a party.

SELECTED POEMS, by Andrei Voznesensky. These first-rate translations by W. H. Auden and others justify Voznesensky's reputation as Russia's finest lyric poet since Pasternak.

THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. An often intemperate but thought-provoking polemic against the easy availability of firearms, which cause close to 17,000 deaths yearly in the U.S.

CHINESE FOOTBINDING, by Howard S. Levy. In a book that often reads like an Oriental Kinsey report, Sinologue Levy recounts the lurid history of a fetish that persisted for 1,000 years.

A VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A brilliant, terrible, autobiographical novel recapitulates the story of the tragic auto accident that broke Author Welch's body but gave him the clarity of a man seeing life for the last time.

LOVE'S BODY, by Norman O. Brown. The author of Life Against Death elaborates on his thesis that sexual repression is the killer of laughter and freedom.

JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. This warm and perceptive portrait reveals Johnson's biographer as one of the most dedicated rakehells of his or anyone else's time.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)

2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)

3. Tai-Pan, Clavell (3)

4. The Source, Michener (4)

5. The Double Image, MacInnes (7)

6. Tell No Man, St. Johns (5)

7. The Detective, Thorp (10)

8. Those Who Love, Stone (9)

9. The Kremlin Letter, Behn

10. I, the King, Keyes (8)

NONFICTION

1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)

2. The Last Battle, Ryan (2)

3. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (4)

4. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (3)

5. In Cold Blood, Capote (5)

6. Games People Play, Berne (6)

7. The Crusades, Oldenbourg (7)

8. Two Under the Indian Sun, Godden and Godden

9. Churchill, Moran (8)

10. The Big Spenders, Beebe (9)

* All times E.D.T.

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