TELEVISION

Wednesday, October 30 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Pictorial report on the British seacoast resort town of Blackpool.

Friday, November 1

BOB HOPE'S THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Dana Wynter and Mel Ferrer star in a spy thriller about a Soviet agent's theft of top military secrets. Color.

MISS TEEN-AGE AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). America's teen queen to be crowned in Dallas. Mickey Mantle is one of five judges.

Saturday, November 2 EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). The era of

Eleanor of Aquitaine and her son Richard the Lion-Hearted is illustrated for children.

Color.

HOOTENANNY (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).

The Brothers Four, Nancy Ames, the

Travelers Three and Bill Cosby.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:20 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand in Let's Make Love. Color.

Sunday, November 3

NBC NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). The Common Market's effect on European living. Color.

NBC CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Premiere of a new show for young children. Tonight a musical adaptation of James Thurber's fantasy, The Great Quillow. Color.

Monday, November 4

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Moviedom's star gangsters--Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and Paul Muni.

Tuesday, November 5

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Yehudi Menuhin, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Ray Bolger. Color.

RECORDS

BILL EVANS: CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF (Verve). No one in jazz broods quite as beautifully as Bill Evans, a player of inner-ear music so intensely private that just hearing it seems an intrusion. Here, by means of three spliced piano sound tracks, Evans converses aloud with himself with out eavesdropping sidemen. In the unique trio for pianos that results, his accompaniment of himself is a fascinating treatise on his icy musical intelligence.

JIMMY WOODS SEXTET: CONFLICT (Contemporary). Alto Saxophonist Woods means to play an "engaged" jazz that is a strong and sharply protesting comment on the Negro in America--his sound is a shriek, a cry, a noise from the streets. Here, with six of his own compositions, his message is as unmistakable as a punch in the stomach. On drums is Elvin Jones, whose cruel talent it is to force from other musicians more music than they know is hidden in their horns.

MARTIAL SOLAL: AT NEWPORT '63 (RCA Victor). Europe's leading jazzman turns out to be more than his two American sidemen can keep up with in this live festi val album. When they give up the chase and Solal flies free, his ideas are a match for his virtuosity and his imagination grows rich to the point of bursting.

SONNY ROLLINS AND COLEMAN HAWKINS: SONNY MEETS HAWK! (RCA Victor). Rollins is the best of the "hard sound" saxophonists, and Hawkins is the prince of lyrical players on the same instrument. Their encounter is hard on the Hawk, perhaps because the sidemen are Sonny's.

BENNY GOLSON: FREE (Argo). Golson is a tenor saxophonist of spotless musicality, with a superb rhythm section: Tommy Flanagan, piano; Ron Carter, bass; and Art Taylor, drums.

PAUL DESMOND: TAKE TEN (RCA Victor). Like Hawkins, Desmond is a lyrical player. Like Golson, he has a dandy rhythm section (Jim Hall, guitar; Gene Cherico, bass; Connie Kay, drums). Like Stan Getz, he can play bossa nova time without making it sound like jungle music --and like no one else any more, he still gets away with it.

THEATER

On Broadway

JENNIE fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic impresario of a husband. Mary Martin is in top form, but she is the only thing that is in this bottom-drawer musical.

THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, are clever, stylish, airy and bittersweet one-acters.

THE REHEARSAL. In this prismatic and bitter comedy, a count's true love for a governess is destroyed by some sophisticated drawing-room criminals.

LUTHER, by John Osborne, may scant the towering Christian, but it is a dynamic portrait of a fiery Promethean rebel. To see Albert Finney in Luther is to watch chained lightning hit the boards.

CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker. With folk song, hortatory example and fond abuse, a U-born RAF rebel tries to arouse his non-U fellow conscripts to a sense of Establishment wrongs and lower-class rights.

Off Broadway

CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, is about that debased, fallen being called Man, who, in some unassailable corner of his tarnished soul, yearns for, reflects, and presupposes a radiant otherness called God. Justice is a play to disturb the mind and chill the soul.

CINEMA

TOM JONES. Director Tony Richardson has made the greatest comic novel in the language into a gaudy, bawdy, bloody, beautiful and shatteringly funny farce. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear.

THE CONJUGAL BED. A very funny, very salty Italian tale about a middle-aged man (Ugo Tognazzi) who marries a young girl (Marina Vlady) and makes an embarrassing discovery: the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la, are pretty to look at but tiring to harvest.

MY LIFE TO LIVE. French Director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) turns a camera full of love and artistry upon his wife (Anna Karina), who, in a dozen impeccably filmed episodes, depicts the oddly satisfying salvation of a woman who leaves home and hearth for harlotry.

THE MUSIC ROOM. A proud old aristocrat loses family and fortune trying to save face, and the resulting film underscores anew the genius of India's Satyajit Ray, creator of the Apu trilogy.

THE RUNNING MAN. With Britain's Sir Carol Reed deftly applying each turn of the screw, Lee Remick and Laurence Harvey sweat it out as a couple who feign death (his) and grief (hers), then flee to Spain with the insurance money.

BOOKS Best Reading

JOHN KEATS, by Walter Jackson Bate; JOHN KEATS, by Aileen Ward. Both these new biographies contest the legend of Keats as a romantic weakling "half in love with easeful death," reveal him instead as a vigorous, tough-minded young man who fought his fatal disease as stubbornly as he did the local bully. Bate concentrates on the poet's work, Miss Ward on the poet's life.

OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS, by Jean Genet. Written in prison, this first novel by the author of The Blacks is part scatology, part pornography, and a monstrous, well-sustained literary diary of a man's single-minded pursuit of evil in search of his own soul.

THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. These touching letters follow the novelist from the peak of precocious success in the '20s to the slough of final despond in the '30s, when he watched his wife go mad and saw his best work scorned.

BEYOND THE MELTING POT, by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan. The authors' conclusion is that the pot does not melt. Their blunt approach to the thickets of sociology makes excellent reading.

THE BLUE LANTERN, by Colette. Written when she was crippled by arthritis and dying, this is an unsentimental record of how it was with a poet of the senses whose senses were failing.

FICTION

1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week) 2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2) 3. Caravans, Michener (3) 4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming

5. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (6) 6. The Collector, Fowles (5) 7. The Three Sirens, Wallace (7)

8. The Living Reed, Buck

9. City of Night, Rechy (9) 10. The Concubine, Lofts

NONFICTION

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

2. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1)

3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (3)

4. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (4)

5. Rascal, North (5)

6. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (6)

7. The Education of American Teachers, Conant (10)

8. A Kind of Magic, Ferber

9. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (8)

10. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (9)

* All times E.S.T.

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