Wednesday, November 23 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*
Leonard Bernstein explains "What Is a Mode?" as he conducts the season's premiere concert. A mode is a scale, and for illustration the orchestra will play Debussy's Fetes, the Polonaise from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and the Danzon from Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free.
ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Katherine Anne Porter's novella, Noon Wine, takes on added body with performances by Jason Robards Jr., Olivia de Havilland, Per Oscarsson and Theodore Bikel.
Thursday, November 24 40TH ANNUAL MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE (NBC, 10 a.m. to noon). Lome Greene and Betty White narrate this al fresco fiesta in honor of Santa's annual stand on Broadway and 34th Street.
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, noon to 3 p.m.). The San Francisco 49ers and the Detroit Lions in Detroit. And from 6 to 9 p.m., the Cleveland Browns v. the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas.
G.E. FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A special animated musical, "The Ballad of Smokey the Bear," marks the coming of age of the U.S. Forest Service's favorite fire-prevention symbol. Jimmy Cagney hosts the benevolent bruin's 21st birthday party.
Friday, November 25 IT'S A DOG'S WORLD (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). From the Mayflower to moon shot, Rover has done his bit for his master, and Lome Greene is on hand to point out the many ways in which dogs help man. Why they even teach us to read -- "See Spot! See Spot Run!"
SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). From Scotland to Mesopotamia, the Roman Empire left a legacy of art, science and law. Fredric March narrates the "Leg acy of Rome."
Saturday, November 26 THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In tribute to the big-band sound, "the Great One" will play host to the greatest and their orchestras when he greets Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Sammy Kayeg Les and Larry Elgart, Guy Lombardo, Freddy Martin and Buddy de Franco (conducting the Glenn Miller Orchestra).
WORLD PREMIERE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The first in a series of movies to be shown on TV prior to release in the theaters, Fame Is the Name of the Game, a murder mys tery starring Anthony Franciosa, Jill St.
John, Jack Klugman, Nanette Fabray and George Macready.
Sunday, November 27 LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A report from Germany on the World Congress on Evangelism, including a talk with Billy Graham.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.).
Morocco's King Hassan II.
PEARL HARBOR (NBC, 3:30-4:30 p.m.).
An examination of what the U.S. has done during the past 25 years to bolster its defenses against a repetition of Dec. 7, 1941, along with a review of what has happened to Japan since that fateful day.
Tuesday, November 29 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Eric Sevareid conducts "A Conversation with Senator-elect Edward Brooke" of Massachusetts, the first Negro ever elected to the U.S. Senate by popular ballot.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE ROSE TATTOO. In a successful revival of Tennessee Williams' tender and funny play, Maureen Stapleton re-creates her role of Serafina Delle Rosa, the widow of a Sicilian truck driver caught between her passion for the memory of her husband and the erotic attractions of another truck driver (Harry Guardino).
HOW'S THE WORLD TREATING YOU? Playwright Roger Milner rips the stuffing out of some of the stuffier idols of life in merry new England. Peter Bayliss and Patricia Routledge romp through three vaudevillian episodes like messengers from mayhem.
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. This British comedy paints life in blacker hues as Playwright Frank Marcus shades in the off-mike personality of a beloved soap-opera paragon of patience and mercy who, once away from the BBC, is the epitome of a lesbian bully. Beryl Reid gives an amusing, incisive interpretation of "George."
MAME does well what Broadway does best: the beautifully wrapped, big-scale musical. The contents may rattle a bit, but the packaging is gay and Angela Lansbury a diverting decoration.
Off Broadway
AMERICA HURRAH, by Jean-Claude van Itallie, is a trip through an air-conditioned blightmare toward an icy emptiness at the core of American life. The three playlets are anguishingly funny and more than passing wise in the ways of the world.
EH?, by Henry Livings, is incongruous, original, unpredictable and farcical. So is Dustin Hoffman's performance as a British "nit." So is Alan Arkin's direction. So is life.
CINEMA
FAHRENHEIT 451. In adapting Fantasticist Ray Bradbury's tale of a society where reading is against the law, French Director Francois Truffaut has created a weirdly gay film that makes up in entertainment what it lacks in relevance. Truffaut's hero is a book-burning fireman (Oskar Werner) whose job is to start fires rather than put them out. Julie Christie plays a dual role as his TV-addicted mate and the book-loving girl who changes his life.
CULDESAC, an inventive exercise in macabre slapstick by Polish Director Roman Polanski, looks like Part II of a projected trilogy of terror that began with Repulsion. This time round, Polanski plays his ghoulish games on a desolate North Sea island whose sole inhabitants are a half-mad old fool (Donald Pleasence), his hot-blooded young wife Franc,oise Dorleac) and two unexpected nighttime visitors.
THE PROFESSIONALS. A real old-fashioned shoot-'em-up, with enough good guys and bad guys to populate the entire Western frontier. On the side of justice are Gunslingers Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan, hired to lasso a missing wife (Claudia Cardinale) kidnaped by Mexican Villain Jack Palance. The setting is a remote bandit stronghold in the early 1900s, the mood mean and violent.
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Broadway's best burlesque show has been hurled at the screen like a custard pie. But despite Director Richard Lester's extravagant cinematics, Top Bananas Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Keaton keep 'em laughing at the good and bawd in Nero's Rome.
Best Reading
THE BEST TIMES, by John Dos Passes. An informal memoir by .one of the great novelistic innovators in 20th century literature. His memories of the Lost Generation are sunnier and more compassionate than Hemingway's, but no less perceptive.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, by Randolph Churchill. The author keeps his own rather gaudy personality under wraps as he writes with understanding and detachment of his father's affection-starved Victorian upbringing. Little Winny was a master politician even then--wheedling, chiding, cajoling his distant parents for a little love and a little pocket money.
THE HEIRS OF CAIN, by Abraham Rothberg. Using an espionage mission as a framework and an Israeli assassin as antihero, Rothberg brilliantly--and brutally--retells the history of the Diaspora in this century.
LA CHAMADE, by Franc,oise Sagan. More evidence of Sagan's special gifts in this worldly love story about the foibles of Parisian society.
A HOUSE IN ORDER, by Nigel Dennis. In a terse, witty novel, the author of Cards of Identity uses the metaphor of imprisonment to explore modern man's search for self.
TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. This lively tale of espionage is only trompe I'oeil; behind it flows the seriocomic vein that is the source of all of Burgess' wit.
BOOKS
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)
2. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2)
3. Capable of Honor, Drury (3)
4. Tai-Pan, Clavell (4)
5. All in the Family, O'Connor (7)
6. The Adventurers, Robbins (5)
7. The Fixer, Malamud (6)
8. Giles Goat-Boy, Barth (8)
9. The Birds Fall Down, West (9) 10. A Dream of Kings, Petrakis (10)
NONFICTION 1. Everything But Money, Levenson (2)
2. Rush to Judgment, Lane (1)
3. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (3)
4. Games People Play, Berne (5)
5. With Kennedy, Salinger (4)
6. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (6) 7. The Search for Amelia Earhart, Goerner (7) 8. The Boston Strangler, Frank (9) 9. Random House Dictionary of the English Language (8) 10. The Passover Plot, Schonfield (10)
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