Television: Sep. 29, 1967

Wednesday, September 27 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*Rock Hudson leads a satirical salute to “The Hollywood Musical” with assistance from Connie Stevens, Bobby Van and Michele Lee.

ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). A playboy newspaper reporter (Paul Newman) and a standoffish career girl (Joanne Woodward) join hands in A New Kind of Love (1963), co-starring Maurice Chevalier.

Thursday, September 28 IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Police Consultant Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) plays it cute by deliberately covering up a murder in order to smoke out the killers.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).

GOOD COMPANY (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). F. Lee Bailey flies to London to check the haunts of 007 and cross-examine Bondsman Sean Connery and his actress wife Diane Cilento.

Friday, September 29

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:45 p.m.). Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959), with Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.

OUR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The first of eight NBC news specials outlining the American Profile. Ed Dodd, conservationist and creator of the Mark Trail cartoon strip, narrates this study of the various animals and birds in danger of extinction.

Saturday, September 30 ABC’S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The tape of the Sept. 28th return match in New York City for the World Middleweight championship between Titleholder Nino Benvenuti and ex-Champion Emile Griffith.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:50 p.m.). Melina Mercouri and her husband Jules Dassin in their catchy-tuned film caricature Never on Sunday (1960), the fevered brow from which the current Broadway hit musical, lllya Darling, sprang.

Sunday, October 1

AMERICAN LEAGUE FOOTBALL (NBC, 4:30 p.m. to conclusion). The only national broadcast is the Kansas City Chiefs v. the Oakland Raiders, at Oakland. Two other A.F.L. regional games begin at 2 p.m., and the National Football League has eight regional offerings on CBS.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Part > of “The Computer Revolution” deals with the new ways of communication between man and machine, and what the two are likely to accomplish in the near future.

Monday, October 2 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). In the first of a two-part adven ture, Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and lllya Kuryakin (David McCallum) set out to steal “the thermal prism,” a new weapon of mass destruction. Guest stars in “The Prince of Darkness Affair” include Bradford Dillman, Lola Albright, Carol Lynley.

Tuesday, October 3

WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY WITH HARRY REASONER (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). “The Wyeth Phenomenon” explores the vast popularity among U.S. gallerygoers of Artist Andrew Wyeth.

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LINCOLN CENTER: STAGE 5 “Five Ballets of the Five Senses.” Choreographer John Butler joins with Composers Robert Starer, Benjamin Lees, Gunther Schuller, Eric Siday and Folk Singer Leon Bibb to examine in musical and dance terms -the five senses. These original works commissioned for television are: Taste of Sorrow, Scent of Flight, Touch of Loss, Sound of Fear, Sight of Beginning.

NET JOURNAL (on most stations Monday at 9 p.m.). “A Conversation with Svetlana Alliluyeva” is a live interview conducted by Paul Niven on the publication date of her book, Twenty Letters to a Friend.

RECORDS

Instrumental

MOZART: FOUR HORN CONCERTOS (RCA Victor). The hearty, lumbering call of a horn against the dancing humor of Mozart’s strings make these concertos a cheery hour of music. Mozart himself was struck by the gaiety of the scores, and wrote such teasing cracks in the margins as “Courage!”, “Take a Breath Here!”, “Thank Heaven, It’s Over!” The jokes aside, Alan Civil’s well-controlled French horn playing makes the finales anything but welcome.

JOSEF SUK: VIRTUOSO VIOLIN MUSIC (Epic). This is the sort of violin music most often heard in seedy hotel restaurants featuring potted palms and rubbery veal. The pieces themselves are good enough music, but somehow the worst fiddlers choose to scratch and sob out Kreisler’s Caprice Viennois, Benjamin’s Jamaican Rhumba, Prokofiev’s FBI in Peace and War (actually titled March from “The Love for Three Oranges”), and the omnipresent Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair. Czech Virtuoso Josef Suk has a deft touch, but even he invokes an occasional swoop and swoon.

RUBINSTEIN AND THE GUARNERI QUARTET:

BRAHMS’S PIANO QUINTET IN F MINOR (RCA Victor). Although Brahms was a piano virtuoso early in his career, his compositions usually require more sensitivity than showmanship. Artur Rubinstein, who is famous for his flashing dexterity, here demonstrates his depth of intellect, while the young Guarneri Quartet matches the master in adorning Brahms’s introspective and gentle work.

ISAAC STERN: LALO’S SYMPHONIE ESPAGNOLE and BRUCH’S VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 (Columbia). Those 19th century French composers who mated their music to Spanish idioms often produced exciting masterpieces—fleshing out the gaunt bones of Spanish rhythms with lovely orchestral colors. Lalo completed his Spanish Symphony in 1873, only two years before Bizet finished Carmen, and Lalo’s work was an apt augury of that most popular opera. Isaac Stern’s violin and Eugene Ormandy’s Philadelphia orchestra join in a most pleasing album.

GRANADOS: GOYESCAS, ESCENAS ROMANTICAS, EL PELELE (2 LPs; Epic). Enrique Granados y Campina named his Goyescas after one of his favorite painters, lavishing the color and romanticism of old melodic Spanish fandangos and jotas on his sometimes morbid, more often gay suites. Pianist Alicia de Larrocha displays thorough understanding of her compatriot’s music, which Granados later transformed into an opera of the same name. The opera received a mild welcome at the Metropolitan in 1916, only three months before the composer burned to death during a German torpedo attack on his homeward-bound ship.

HEIFETZ: SAINT-SAENS, SONATA NO. 1 (RCA Victor). As Professor Higgins once observed, Frenchmen don’t actually care what they do, only how they pronounce it. And Charles Camille Saint-Saens is nothing if not French. “The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music,” he once declared. Most of his music, including Sonata No. 1 For Piano ‘ and Violin, is more form than substance. Still, Jascha Heifetz plays it well, and includes satisfying little pieces by four other composers (Sibelius, Wieniawski, Rachmaninoff and Falla) on side 2.

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: COMPLETE PI ANO MUSIC (2 LPs; CBS). This set is worth acquiring as much for Stockhausen’s notes on the album cover as for the music itself. Not that the composer writes revealingly about his art (“All the Piano Pieces V-X are characterized by groups of notes around nuclear notes, occurring before, with or after them.”). Instead, he spends the space discussing the fascinating food his soloist, Aloys Kontarsky, consumed on the days when the album was being recorded. On the groaning board: jugged deer with Spdtzle; marrow consomme; steak Tartare; saltimbocca romana (“He sent the rice back”); Movenpick ice-cream tart; Haldengut Pilsen beer; Cognac; Coca-Cola; Johannisberg wine, and one Bloody Mary. During one recording session, confides Stockhausen, “every movement that Kontarsky made caused his piano stool to creak on the wooden floor,” a difficulty that caused a one-and-a-half-hour delay in the recording of Stockhausen’s staccato, rather eerie Music

CINEMA

THE CLIMAX. Ugo Tognazzi gives an exquisitely humane performance as a three-family man (one wife, two mistresses, six children) in a bittersweet comedy produced, written and directed by Italy’s Pietro Germi.

CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. In this story of a young man beginning his working life as a train dispatcher, Czech Director Jiff Menzel mixes the real and the surreal, ribaldry and pathos, comedy and tragedy, yet keeps the film squarely on the track all the way.

UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE. Sandy Dennis is expert, as always. But it is the kids themselves (recruited from the New York City streets) who give the ring of truth to this glossy rendering of Bel Kaufman’s novel about a teacher’s problems in a slum-area high school. THE THIEF OF PARIS. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a burglar in turn-of-the-century France, manages only to steal the picture, which, because of its disjointedness, just misses being worth the effort.

THE BIG CITY. Satyajit Ray has taken a simple tale of six people living in a Calcutta tenement and fashioned an eloquent testimonial to the courage of ordinary people facing ordinary problems.

BOOKS

Best Reading

YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945; FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, uses the detailed personal diaries of F.D.R.’s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., to trace the career of that imperious New Dealer from 1941, when he organized a wartime fiscal-fitness program for the U.S. economy, through the 1945 “Morgenthau Plan” for emasculating and dismembering conquered Germany, which cost him his job.

A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. This is the season for female discontent: Joyce Carol Gates joins Philip Roth (When She Was Good) in portraying a poor girl determined to make good, but fated to go mad. A naturalistic, Dreiserian novel of considerable power.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE: THE EVOLUTION OF GENIUS, by Winifred Gerin. This biography of the most prolific and active of the Bronte sisters plumbs the sources of Charlotte’s strength (her realism) and weakness (sentimental romanticism).

THE COLD WAR AS HISTORY, by Louis J. Halle, effectively peels away the emotions of 1945-62 to reveal one of history’s most clear-cut conflicts resulting from Great Power misunderstanding.

A HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. A first novel about three castoffs of American society who come to rest in New Orleans. Author Stone has achieved a rare combination of humor, despair and moral wrath.

NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1, New American Library. A lively blend of the best contemporary avant-garde fiction, nonfiction, poetry and criticism collected in a commendable effort to sell quality in quantity in the paperback market.

GOG, by Andrew Sinclair. A bizarre fable—or parable—about an amnesic giant who makes a bewildering pilgrimage through history in quest of himself.

DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come.

STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. The story of one man who risked his own life in an effort to take Hitler’s, and the unlucky chance that caused him to fail.

RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren. A posthumous appreciation of the poet and critic, written by his friends, most of them eminent writers whom he served as unofficial custodian of artistic conscience.

AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. Novelist Griffin specializes in dramas that pit military discipline against moral imperative, and this World War II sea story is his best.

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty is told through the personal tragedy of the last, likable heads of the Russian ruling family.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week) 2. The Chosen, Potok (2) 3. The Eighth Day, Wilder (7) 4. A Night of Watching, Arnold (4) 5. The Plot, Wallace (3) 6. Washington, D.C., Vidal (6) 7. Rosemary’s Baby, Levin (5) 8. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (8) 9. A Second-Hand Life, Jackson 10. An Operational Necessity, Griffin (9) NONFICTION 1.

Our Crowd, Birmingham (3) 2. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2) 3. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (1) 4. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (4) 5. The Lawyers, Mayer (7) 6. Incredible Victory, Lord (6) 7. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (5) 8. Everything But Money, Levenson (9) 9. Between Parent and Child, Ginott 10. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (8)

*All times E.D.T.