Wednesday, August 21 The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Folk Musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs make a special guest appearance as former suitors of Cousin Pearl.
Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The S.S. American Dream," with John Larch, Gretchen Wyler and Madeleine Sherwood. Repeat.
Thursday, August 22
The Voice of the Desert (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A special on the Sonoran Desert, as seen in Arizona by Naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch. Color.
The Nurses (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Joan Hackett, as an unwed, pregnant nurse, ponders abortion. Repeat.
Friday, August 23
The Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include the cast of Beyond the Fringe. Repeat.
Saturday, August 24
ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Soap Box Derby from Akron and the Little League World Series from Williamsport, Pa.
The Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The Prestons go to Fire Island for the weekend, encounter a poltergeist and a murder. Guests include Mary Astor, Patrick O'Neal and Joan Hackett. Repeat.
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). The Roots of Heaven, the story of a one-man crusade to save Africa's elephants, with Trevor Howard, Errol Flynn, Orson Welles, Eddie Albert, Juliette Greco. Color.
Sunday, August 25
The American Golf Classic (ABC, 4:30-6 p.m.). The final round of the $50,000 invitational match at Akron.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Finland's Tug of War," highlighted by the riots accompanying the July 1962 Communist Eighth World Youth Festival in Helsinki. Repeat.
Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). John Mills heads the cast of The Interrogator, a drama about a British police superintendent on Cyprus who feels forced to use brutality against the terrorists. Color. Repeat.
Crucial Summer: The 1963 Civil Rights Crises (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Third in a series of five special reports.
Monday, August 26
Ben Casey (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Kim Stanley won an Emmy award for her performance in this segment about a female attorney who tries to conceal her addiction to drugs. Repeat.
Tuesday, August 27 Focus on America (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "To the Moon and Beyond . . ." a discussion by Dr. Wernher von Braun of the U.S. space effort.
RECORDS
Virgil Fox Plays the Philharmonic Hall Organ (Command). In baroque, romantic and modern music -- Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, Franck's Grande Piece Symphonique and Messiaen's Dieu Parmi Nous--Fox puts Manhattan's first fine concert organ through its paces for a disk debut. A staggering volume and variety of sound and with it, music of a high order.
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: RCA Victrola). Pierre Monteux gives a fine reading of his fellow countryman's most popular work. Made in 1960, this is one of an armful of records recently dropped from Victor's big catalogue and now reissued at about half their former price on a revived, well-remembered label: Victrola.
Henry Cowell: Piano Music (Folkways). The dean of the enfants terribles of U.S. music plays and talks about the pieces that made such a ruckus in the 1920s. His 20 piano pieces (including Tides of Manaunaun and Trumpet of Angus Og) are full of rumbling dissonant tone clusters, reinforced by piano strings rubbed, strummed and plucked. The pieces sound prophetic now, and not nearly so wild.
Schumann. Spanische Liebeslieder (Columbia). These love songs are about as Spanish as wiener schnitzel, but romantic nonetheless. Published posthumously, the five solos, two duets and final quartet of Schumann's second Spanish-cycle are recorded for the first time. The two-piano team of Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale share high honors with the singers, notably Soprano Lois Marshall and Tenor Leopold Simoneau. On the other side of the record are Brahms's Liebeslieder Waltzes, which are also written for four hands and four voices.
CINEMA
The Small World of Sammy Lee. Anthony Newley, of Stop the World--/ Want to Get Off, has gotten off at a Soho bump-and-grindery where he is the frantically busy master of ceremonies with several illicit deals on the side. As the fast-running Sammy, Newley is wickedly sly, inwardly terrified, foolishly hopeful in this sordid and often biting slice-of-life film.
The Thrill of It All. The cinematic succession of unsuccessful assaults on Doris Day's virtue not only has ended with this latest film, but has also gotten a few jumps ahead of the ladies in the balcony: Doris is married to Obstetrician James Garner and is the mother of two singularly objectionable children. With apple-cheeked efficiency, she finds time both to sell soap on TV and to assist as mobile midwife when Arlene Francis has a baby in the back seat of a Rolls-Royce.
Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's story about two Southern spinsters and their younger brother is the same tangle of tormented sibling relationships it was on the stage in 1960 and just as lacking in life, though Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller and Dean Martin try valiantly to give it spark.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Tenants of Moonbloom, by Edward Lewis Wallant. A horrifying look behind the doors of New York's wretched slum tenements. The novel's hero is a rent collector who goes bleakly from house to house until he can no longer stand it, and sets out to restore the buildings and his own spirit.
Aneurin Bevan, by Michael Foot. A full, sympathetic biography of England's most militant socialist and Churchill's most abrasive critic, who was also a great parliamentarian, a man of chivalrous gaiety and wit who loved charming and disarming London society.
The Collector, by John Fowles. There is not one wrong word in this story of a weird, solitary young man who branches out from butterflies to young girls for his chloroformed collection. Author Fowles impales the collector as exquisitely as any of his specimens.
Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933-62, by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. Though corporate history seems an unlikely subject for drama, this book makes lively reading of the time when the Ford Motor Co. was a chaotic, money-losing corporate mess, its aging founder out of touch with his own company and his own times. The authors go on to trace the corporation's recovery, guided by Henry Ford II and his Whiz Kids, among them Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. For those who take their campus politics more seriously, this hefty bestseller recounts the maneuverings of a New York socialite to land her husband the president's job in a small Pennsylvania college.
Mrs. G.B.S., by Janet Dunbar. She wasn't gay, witty or pretty--qualities Shaw admired extravagantly in other women--but her quiet nature excellently balanced his. Their marriage began, as Shaw would tell anyone who would listen, as "intellectual companionship" and ended 45 years later when she died, "in deep devotion."
Night and Silence Who Is Here?, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. A charming, lazy British scholar arrives for a sabbatical year at a well-endowed New England college and discovers that it offers just the sinecure he had been looking for. An acid satire on the university-foundation circuit, written by the wife of Britain's Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, who was a visiting fellow at Connecticut's Wesleyan College in 1961.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (1, last week)
2. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (2)
3. City of Night, Rechy (3)
4. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (4)
5. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (5)
6. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (6)
7. The Collector, Fowles (10)
8. Caravans, Michener
9. The Concubine, Lofts (7) 10. Raise High the Roof Beam,
Salinger (8)
NONFICTION
1. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (1)
2. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (5)
3. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (3)
4. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (2)
5. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (4)
6. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (9)
7. Notebooks 1935-1942, Camus
8. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith
9. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton (6)
10. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (7)
*All times E.D.T.
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