Television Wednesday, February 22

THE ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* Take Her, She's Mine (1963). Hollywood's version of the Broadway hit, with Sandra Dee as a flighty teen-ager and Jimmy Stewart as her dad.

Thursday, February 23

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Leonard Bernstein conducts Washington's Birthday and other works by Charles Ives in a musical and biographical profile of the man Lennie calls "our first great American composer."

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Maurice Chevalier and Diahann Carroll team up in "C'est la Vie," a Franco-American entente cordiale filmed in Paris.

Friday, February 24

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The stage version folded before opening night, but the movie goes on and on: Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Audrey Hepburn.

THE SONGMAKERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). How to read the public taste and how to make a hit with it are the subjects; The Mamas and The Papas, Dionne Warwick, Simon and Garfunkel, and Songwriters Johnny Mercer and Burt Bacharach do the explaining.

Saturday, February 25

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Winternational Drag Racing Championships from Pomona, Calif., and the International Surfing Championship from Makaha Beach, Hawaii.

THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Gene Kelly, among others, salute "the Great One" on his 51st birthday.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Don Murray and Inger Stevens are pawns of organized crime in The Borgia Slick. Another full-length movie getting its premiere on TV.

Sunday, February 26

CAPELLA PAOLINA (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Art Historian Leo Steinberg analyzes two Michelangelo frescoes in this special filmed in the Pauline and Sistine chapels in Rome. Repeat.

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The North American Figure Skating Championships from Montreal.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Narrator Walter Cronkite, aided by unprecedented films of human reproductive cells and fetuses, makes a fascinating documentary of recent genetics discoveries in "The Mystery of Life."

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). All jazz breaks loose in the pastoral Belgian village of Comblain la Tour, site of last summer's International Jazz Festival, highlights of which are shown here. With Benny Goodman, Germany's Gunther Hampel Quintet, England's Long John Baldry.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A musical transplant of the fairy tale sets real people (Gene Kelly and Bobby Riha) and cartoon characters dancing to the jaunty songs of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The third and latest Hollywood edition of Somerset Maugham's autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage (1964) stars Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey.

Monday, February 27

IVAN IVANOVICH (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A visit to the Maltsevs of Rostov-on-Don offers a look at "the average Russian family" at home, at play, at work in the factory, and in the public schools.

Tuesday, February 28

THE MINI-SKIRT REBELLION (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Britain's Twiggy and Mod Designer Mary Quant, and Hollywood's Jill St. John and Chris Noel see boutique and discotheque action in a London to Los Angeles fashion tour.

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Tenement" follows the fortunes--such as they are--of nine Negro families in a Chicago slum, from last year's long, hot summer to their eviction early this month to make way for an urban renewal project.

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Ninety Days," a BBC production, recreates the horror and outrage of a white South African journalist who is imprisoned for a "crime" that is never explained by the authorities.

NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). Lotte Lenya sings the compositions of her late husband in "The World of Kurt Weill," while telling the life story of the composer whose music is equally at home on the opera stage and in the lowliest dive.

THEATER

On Broadway BLACK COMEDY. What people do, say and discover in the dark, is the single droll conceit on which Peter Shaffer's convulsively amusing farce is based. An acrobatically agile cast, including Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave bring the monkeyshines to a high polish.

THE HOMECOM'NG is the season's most tantalizing drama, by Harold Pinter, who prods and arouses with the twin-tined fork of shock and humor. Vivien Merchant leads the Royal Shakespeare Company through a harmonious, moody production in which even the pauses and silences are eloquent.

THE WILD DUCK. Although dedicated to candor in human relations, Henrik Ibsen also recognized that while it may be just to deal with men for what they are, it is often kinder to consider what they wish they could be. In its revival of the 1884 drama, the APA troupe performs with more precision than passion.

AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will break into still another diverting ditty such as that non-classic The Gasman Cometh, or let go with a bit of lopsided logic: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow."

SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and RIGHT YOU ARE are studies of one of the most active and lethal parts of the human anatomy, the wagging tongue. In Richard Sheridan's high comedy, a hive of busybodies is undone. In Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, a nest of vipers invades the privacy of a family and destroys the tenuous balance of their lives. The APA again.

Off Broadway

EH? The hero of Henry Livings farce is ideologically idiotic. Sample: "I'm satisfactory, all right. Always been satisfactory. All my school reports: satisfactory, satisfactory, satisfactory. 'Satis' meaning enough, 'factory' meaning works: Satisfactory. Had enough of work."

AMERICA HURRAH is composed of three hypodermic playlets by Jean-Claude van Itallie, who plunges through the surface of the American way of life to hit the raw network of nerves on which it runs.

RECORDS

Spreading the Word

THE IRISH UPRISING (CBS Legacy). The story of the Irish rebellion against England from 1916 to 1922, a struggle that W. B. Yeats said had "a terrible beauty." The beauty is here reborn in the narration of Charles Kuralt, in the memories of the rebellion's survivors, and in the ballads of the time and the place, sung by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

MIRACLES (Caedmon). The title is the judgment of this anthology of beautifully wrought poems by English-speaking children in all parts of the world. Whether the subject is 2,200,000 fish or simply the wind and the rain, the insights are as fresh as childhood itself. Read with the proper amalgam of wonder and authority by Julie Harris and Roddy McDowall.

THE ART OF LOVE (Vanguard). A surprisingly tasteful blend of erotica and exotica as Saeed Jaffrey, an Indian actor who has been seen on Broadway (A Passage to India), reads his own translation of the Kama Sutra--the classic Hindu celebration of sex--against a background of shimmering Indian music.

THE BALCONY (Caedmon). Jean Genet's decadence has enjoyed a worldwide vogue since the beginning of the decade; this Balcony view of the world shows why. Even minus the trappings of the bordello in which it takes place, the effect remains undiminished in vengeance and comic force. Read by a superlative cast including Pamela Brown, Patrick Magee, Cyril Cusack and a gifted English company.

LOVE FOR LOVE (RCA Victor). Another all-English cast, this time with an all-English play. Love for Love is hardly the finest flower of the Restoration, but as performed by the National Theater of Great Britain. Congreve's period piece blossoms into fine, bawdy fare. The credit is divided between Director Peter Wood and Sir Laurence Olivier, who as the dim-witted Tattle makes every line shine.

THE CONTROVERSY (Capitol). With lofty disdain, this report decries the "scavengers" who continue to profit by President Kennedy's assassination and its aftermath. But it joins the very group it pretends to despise by presenting little more than a rehash of old tapes of the four black days in Dallas, a mishmash of Warren Report detractors, and the smuggled-out bedside interview with Jack Ruby shortly before he died. The interview, like the record, is shabby and unrevealing.

CINEMA

LA GUERRE EST FINIE. Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour) explores the mind of an old-guard Spanish Civil War Communist (Yves Montand), and builds a biography that may be overly literary but never tedious.

YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW. Writer-Director Francis Ford Coppola, 27, exudes energy, freshness and promise in his first major film--a wacky farce about a Little Boy Blue (Peter Kastner) who turns out to be as green as they come when he tries to paint the town red.

BLOWUP. Italy's anatomist of melancholy, Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura), moves his cameras to London, where he commences by filming the mod scene with abandon and then, in midflight, abruptly transforms an ingenious thriller into an opaque parable. The result is one of the most talked about and popular films around.

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Robert Bolt's hit play about Sir Thomas More has been made into a brilliant film for all seasons by Director Fred Zinnemann and a notable cast led by Paul Scofield.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE FUTILE LIFE OF PITO PEREZ, by Jose Ruben Romero. A great Mexican classic gets its first English translation. Pito Perez is a south-of-the-border Everyman, and his story illumines the national character of Mexico.

THE LAST ONE LEFT, by John D. MacDonald. Murder at sea, mayhem on land, and skulduggery everywhere in this tautly told story by one of America's masters of suspense.

PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. The author makes his personal dream come true for the reader too; his account of playing as a temporary member of the Detroit Lions pro football club puts every fan on the bench right behind the coaches.

DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. The founding father of black humor in a new and splendidly gutty translation of his classic about the bitter, unbreakable orphan whose horrid childhood and nonage were a lugubrious epic of squalor, filth, misery and hatred.

THE MAN WHO KNEW KENNEDY, by Vance Bourjaily. A civilized and affecting fictional account of how the generation closest to J.F.K. in age and aspirations took his death.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (1 last week)

2. Capable of Honor, Drury (2)

3. The Birds Fall Down, West (3)

4. The Mask of Apollo, Renault (4)

5. The Captain, De Hartog (9)

6. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (5)

7. Tai-Pan, Clavell (7)

8. All in the Family, O'Connor (6)

9. The Fixer, Malamud (8)

10. Five Smooth Stones, Fairbairn

NONFICTION

1. Everything But Money, Levenson (1)

2. Madame Sarah, Skinner (3)

3. Paper Lion, Plimpton (2)

4. The Jury Returns, Nizer (4)

5. Games People Play, Berne (6)

6. Rush to Judgment, Lane (5)

7. The Boston Strangler, Frank (8)

8. Random House Dictionary of the English Language (7)

9. Winston S. Churchill, Churchill (9)

10. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (10)

*All times E.S.T.

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