Time Listings: Jan. 24, 1964

Wednesday, January 22

CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A report on the narcotics racket, with exclusive films of the bosses and street pushers.

BEN CASEY (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Dr. Casey has to decide whether to attempt brain surgery on an amnesia victim. Robert Walker guest-stars.

Friday, January 24

BELL SYSTEM SCIENCE SERIES (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A Walt Disney documentary on oceanography. Color.

BURKE’S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tonight’s list of suspects includes Terry-Thomas, Dorothy Lamour, Jeanne Grain and Carolyn Jones.

THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The week’s events are lampooned by David Frost, Nancy Ames, Henry Morgan and others.

Saturday, January 25

IX WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES (ABC, 6:30-7 p.m.). The last in a series of 14 previews takes viewers on a tour of the installations at Innsbruck and analyzes the potentials of the competing athletes.

Sunday, January 26

DISCOVERY ’64 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The discoveries of Thomas Edison are recreated for children.

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Finals of the ten-day “World Series” of bowling from Dallas. Also the world pentathlon championship from Berne, Switzerland.

ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). Three young artists—Sculptor James Wines, Painter Alfred Leslie and Composer Charles Mills—are shown in the midst of creation.

THE WIZARD OF OZ (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). Judy Garland is Dorothy; her old friends are Ray Bolger and Bert Lahr. Color.

NBC NEWS SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Repeat of NBC’s excellent tour of the Kremlin. Color.

Tuesday, January 28

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). An all-Cole Porter program, starring Ethel Merman, Martha Wright. Gretchen Wyler, John Raitt and Peter Nero. Color.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Perignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong.

MARATHON ’33, by June Havoc, is a dance marathon macabre with clowning, roughhousing and tenderness, but it is illuminated by the weary, winning, little-girl-lost-and-found acting style of Julie Harris.

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. Robert Preston impersonates a TV “genius” whose career is a castle of balloons—when one is popped, the escaping hot air just fills another.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon. Newlyweds Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford are handsome enough to model for any refrigerator ad, but their apartment—and its visitors—are mad, mad, mad, mad, mad.

THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Under dingy eaves, or in front of bookcases chockful of texts, Playwright Peter Shaffer sees the awkward and funny, stuffy and tender sides of people searching for love.

CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, chides the British lower classes for being docile sheep that raise nary a baa of protest at their lot. The setting is an R.A.F. training camp, and the military gamesmanship is brisk and funny.

LUTHER. Albert Finney’s Luther is a fiercely burning torch—dampened by tormenting disagreement with his church, threatened by the double dangers of self-doubt and physical pain, but shedding the guiding light of the Reformation.

Off Broadway

THE TROJAN WOMEN. With anguish, protective passion and wounded nobility, Mildred Dunnock, Joyce Ebert and Carrie Nye decry their fate, surrounded by a chorus whose every movement echoes the powerful and evocative words of the Euripides classic.

IN WHITE AMERICA. The pain, the humor, the anger and the pride of the U.S. Negro’s history spring to pulsing life in this collection of dramatizations drawn from newspapers, journals and letters.

THE STREETS OF NEW YORK are drenched in crocodile tears in this gay musical spoof of Dion Boucicault’s bustling and be-bustled 19th century tale of a dastard of a banker.

CINEMA

POINT OF ORDER. The undoing of Senator Joe McCarthy is the theme of this Washington political drama, a striking documentary gleaned from TV coverage of the historic Army-McCarthy hearings.

THE EASY LIFE. Almost as funny as Divorce—Italian Style, almost as mordant as La Dolce Vita, this brilliant thriller is one of the best Italian movies of 1963: the story of a pixy Quixote (Vittorio Gassman) who grabs himself a solid squire (Jean Louis Trintignant), mounts his sports car and rides madly away on a quest for nothing at all.

LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. The time is now, the place is Manhattan, the boy is Steve McQueen, the girl is Natalie Wood—and when this comedy-drama remembers to take itself lightly, the results are grade A Hollywood romance.

HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. And all hail Adolfas Mekas, a young and impecunious U.S. director who in his first feature film has produced a far-out and very funny farce, the first cubistic comedy of the new world cinema.

BILLY LIAR. As hilariously mirrored by Actor Tom Courtenay, a young man’s fancies turn to lust, liquor, fascism, bloody revenge, anything at all to escape the grime-and-grind of working-class life in modern Britain.

TO BED OR NOT TO BED. Alberto Sordi brings his sunny southern warmth to this Italian comedy about a frisky fur merchant who discovers firsthand that sex in Stockholm is still in the Ice Age.

TOM JONES. Vice triumphs—most engagingly, too—in this movie masterpiece wrested by Director Tony Richardson from Fielding’s ribald 18th century classic. Albert Finney and Hugh Griffith head a superb cast.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, by John le Carre. This grim, exciting cold war thriller about a genuine professional in the international spying game is a good antidote for mystery fans fed up with excessively flashy Fleming.

TWO BY TWO, by David Garnett. The author refloats the Ark again with a wine-guzzling Noah at the helm. The resulting fantasy can be taken as frivolously Biblical or ominously nuclear.

LOOKING FOR THE GENERAL, by Warren Miller. Billy Brown, alienated nuclear physicist, seeks redemption for a decadent world in the arrival of supermen from another planet. Of course, it doesn’t turn out that way, but Billy’s voice is satirically refreshing.

THE QUIET ENEMY, by Cecil Dawkins. Seven excellent stories about the hill people who live in the Appalachians—a continually distressed area of the South.

DON’T KNOCK THE CORNERS OFF, by Caroline Glyn. This 15-year-old first-novelist shows an old pro’s shrewdness in choosing the subject matter she knows best: the fiercely competitive world of an English boarding school for little girls.

THE PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The last and most dramatic volume in this definitive biography of Leon Trotsky, the odd man out of the Communist revolution who died as he lived, fiercely but in vain.

MR. DOOLEY REMEMBERS—THE INFORMAL MEMOIRS OF FINLEY PETER DUNNE, edited by Philip Dunne. An affectionate portrait of Martin Dooley, the imaginary Irish bartender in Chicago, and his creator, Newspaperman Finley Dunne, who put in Dooley’s mouth some of America’s best political humor.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)

2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)

3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (5)

4. Caravans, Michener (4)

5. The Three Sirens, Wallace (6)

6. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (9)

7. The Living Reed, Buck (7)

8. The Hat on the Bed, O’Hara (3)

9. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre

10. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Fleming (8)

NONFICTION

1. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (1)

2. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (5)

3. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (2)

4. Rascal, North (4)

5. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (6)

6. The American Way of Death, Mitford (3)

7. Dorothy and Red, Sheean (7)

8. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (10)

9. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (9)

10. The Rise of the West, McNeill

*All times E.S.T.