Wednesday, November 30 THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).* The Clampetts, hearing that Gloria Swanson's mansion will be razed to make way for a golf course, decide that she is destitute and go into silent-movie making so that Gloria can try a comeback.
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Danny plays his usual gracious host to Nancy Wilson, Peter Ustinov and Frank Gorshin.
ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Legend of Marilyn Monroe," narrated by John Huston--who directed her first well-known film (The Asphalt Jungle) and her last (The Misfits).
Thursday, December 1 THE JACK BENNY HOUR (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). In a comedy special with Phyllis Diller, Trini Lopez and the Smothers Brothers, Jack fiddle-faddles away the time so hilariously that it's a shame TV doesn't see more of him.
Friday, December 2
TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Suzy Parker is anything but plain Jane as a woman archeologist searching for an ancient gold lion.
Saturday, December 3 ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Bees not only talk but have dialects--to the extent that a Southern European bee's "Honey, child!" might mean "Bitter, baby!" to his Scandinavian cousin. This and other levels of animal communication are explored by Dr. Loren Eiseley in "Messages." THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When the Honeymooners visit West Berlin, Ralph (Jackie Gleason) and Ed (Art Carney) wind up behind the Iron Curtain where they pose as Soviet dignitaries.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 (1953) starring William Holden, Otto Preminger, Don Taylor and Neville Brand, returns to remind television how to tell war stories.
Sunday, December 4
DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). A visit to "America's Jungle Wilderness--the Everglades" includes a stop at the Miami ''Serpentarium, where they engage in such ticklish tasks as extracting the venom from a 15-ft. king cobra.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Randolph S. Churchill, Sir Winston's son and author of a most perceptive and engaging book about his dad (TIME, Nov. 11).
G.E. FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). Johnny Marks's music and Burl Ives's narration of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer are reason enough for this special to become an annual celebration. Repeat.
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "The Cleveland Orchestra--One Man's Triumph" will focus on Conductor George Szell in rehearsal and in concert.
Tuesday, December 6 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Bridges at Tokori (1955), James Michener's story of carrier-based jets during the Korean War, with William Hoiden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March and Mickey Rooney.
S. HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A galaxy of stars twinkling in tribute to Impresario Sol Hurok. Representing only a few of the hundreds he has sponsored during the past 55 years are Marian Anderson, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, Andres Segovia, the Bolshoi Ballet with Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and Antonio and the Ballets de Madrid.
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).
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. This British comedy paints life in dark 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.
SWEET CHARITY tells the Runyonesque tale of a doll who tries to trade the dance hall for domesticity but can't find the guy to go with it. Bob Fosse's direction and choreography are suave and sophisticated.
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, unpredictable and farcical. So is Dustin Hoffman's performance as a British "nit." So is Alan Arkin's direction. So is life.
RECORDS
Opera
WAGNER: DIE WALKURE (5 LPs; London). Following close upon last year's triumphant Gotterdammerung, London completes its new recordings of the complete Ring cycle with a wonderful Walkure. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Solti again heaps high all the sumptuous glories of the Wagnerian orchestra, at the same time charging every passage of Wotan's family fracas with drama. The lush and beautiful singing is alive with emotion, the stars being an international assemblage of accomplished artists: Birgit Nilsson as Briinnhilde, Regine Crespin as Sieglinde, Christa Ludwig as Fricka, and Hans Hotter as Wotan. Not quite so great but still outstanding are James King as Siegmund and Gottlob Frick as Hunding.
OPENING NIGHTS AT THE MET (3 LPs; RCA Victor). A small swatch of the gold curtain from the old, abandoned house on 39th Street is tucked into the first 45,000 of these sets, and the albums are selling so fast that Victor would do well to look around for more dry goods. The musical part of the package is also pure nostalgia, consisting of several dozen duets, trios and arias sung by Met stars from Louise Homer (in 1905) to Zinka Milanov (in 1953).
VERDI: NABUCCO (3 LPs; London). Lamberto Garelli, conducting the Vienna Opera Orchestra, has produced an unexpected smash hit. The biggest surprise is Elena Suliotis, a 23-year-old Greek soprano who has arrived like a gift from Olympus for opera fans who want Msria Callas reborn. Their voices have striking similarities: three-octave range, "white" tone, unflinching attack. But whereas Callas used all her skills and wiles to project a so-so voice, Suliotis is blessed with a strong, clear instrument that never quavers. It will be some time before she matches Callas' artistry, but in the florid role of Abigaille, her "Tomorrow be damned" approach is wonderfully exciting.
FALLA: LA VIDA BREVE (2 LPs; Angel). This short opera is about the short, unhappy life of Salud, a gypsy girl who is cruelly betrayed by her lover and falls dead at his wedding. The gypsy's passion and her pathos are exploited to the full by Spanish Soprano Victoria de los Angeles--unfortunately without much help from supporting singers. Falla's early work is studded with folk dances and flamenco songs, all fierily clicked off by the National Orchestra of Spain, Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos conducting.
BARTOK: BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (London). Melodic, dreamily dissonant and heavy with musical sighs, Bartok's only opera uses the fairy tale merely as a symbol. When Bluebeard's last wife insists upon opening the doors in his dark castle, she intrudes upon his past and, to her sorrow, resurrects his other wives, still very much alive in his memory. Christa Ludwig is forceful as Judith, whose curiosity leads her to her doom, and Walter Berry (Christa's real-life husband) is mellowly desolate as Bluebeard. Sung in Hungarian, with Istvan Kertesz conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.
Cl NEMA
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 2 of a projected trilogy of terror that began with Repulsion. This time around, 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 (Francoise Dorleac) and two unexpected nighttime visitors.
THE PROFESSIONALS. When Land Baron Ralph Bellamy discovers that his wife (Claudia Cardinale) has been kidnaped, he spares no expense in hiring the Four Fastest Guns in the West to get her back. Overcoming odds of 50 to 1 is mighty exhilarating, but all in a day's work for real pros like Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan.
THE FORTUNE COOKIE. Only Director Billy Wilder would have the chutzpah to choose an obnoxious, money-grubbing heel for his hero, and only Walter Matthau could make the heel lovable. As Shyster "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich, Matthau gets nothing but laughs as he prods Jack Lemmon into attempting a $1,000,000 insurance swindle.
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit musical has a grossly libidinous libretto, some charmingly scummy sets, and a quartet of top comedians (Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers) who dance and double-talk their way through the back alleys of Nero's Rome.
BOOKS
Best Reading
LA VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. Anthropologist Lewis's tape-recorded view of Mexican poverty, gathered at its roots in The Children of Sanchez, cut more deeply than most sociology goes. This time the compelling scene is poverty among the Puerto Ricans, and it is unrelievedly ugly.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, by Randolph Churchill. The unhappy, harum-scarum Victorian upbringing of the greatest public figure of his age, written with compassion and restraint by his only son. Four more volumes are projected.
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.
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.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2 last week)
2. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1)
3. Capable of Honor, Drury (3)
4. Tai-Pan, Clavell (4)
5. The Adventurers, Robbins (6)
6. The Fixer, Malamud (7)
7. The Birds Fall Down, West (9)
8. All in the Family, O'Connor (5)
9. Giles Goat-Boy, Barth (8)
10. A Dream of Kings, Petrakis (10)
NONFICTION
1. Rush to Judgment, Lane (2)
2. Everything But Money, Levenson (1)
3. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (6)
4. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (3)
5. With Kennedy, Salinger (5)
6. The Search for Amelia Earhart, Goerner (7)
7. Games People Play, Berne (4)
8. Random House Dictionary of the English Language (9)
9. The Boston Strangler, Frank (8)
10. The Passover Plot, Schonfield (10)
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