TELEVISION
Wednesday, November 20 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A dramatic study of the year 1863, concen-rating on the words of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, with Ossie Davis playing Douglass.
THAT WAR IN KOREA (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). A Project 20 special, narrated by Richard Boone.
THE FESTIVAL FRENZY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A look at European festivals--eating festivals, music festivals, film festivals, boating excursions, religious celebrations, and the running of the bulls at Pamplona.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guest stars are British Actress Rachel Roberts and Richard Kiley.
Thursday, November 21
DR. KILDARE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Dick Chamberlain finds he can patch up the body but not the mind of the teen-age victim of an abortion, so he ships her off to another program--The Eleventh Hour, where in the Nov. 27 episode Dr. Ralph Bellamy, as psychiatrist, will try his hand where Kildare's failed.
Friday, November 22
TWILIGHT ZONE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Gladys Cooper plays an invalid terrified by a series of telephone calls.
Saturday, November 23
EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). A children's program devoted to Mark Twain.
THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A comedy (for a change) about a play trying out in Boston with the cast getting thrown in jail. Barbara Baxley, Barbara Harris and Elliott Reid guest-star.
Sunday, November 24
DISCOVERY (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). First of a two-part series examining what's left of London after Liz Taylor got done with it on NBC, with ABC London Correspondent Bill Sheehan and his family conducting the tour.
NBC OPERA COMPANY (NBC, 2-3 p.m.). The opening of the company's 15th season with a repeat of last year's world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's Labyrinth.
NBC NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). A repeat of "The Land," a look at the plight of the farmer.
THE CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 5-5-30 p.m.). "Seven Days to Kickoff," one week in the life of Air Force Academy Quarterback Terry Isaacson.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 pm) Part 1 of "The Plots Against Hit ler," as told by the few who survived the attempt to assassinate him in 1944.
THE BEST ON RECORD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). An entertainment special presented under the auspices of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, featuring winners of the academy's "Grammy award. Among them: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin and Mahalia Jackson.
Monday, November 25
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Singing in the Rain, one of the best musicals Hollywood ever produced, starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. Color.
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A documentary on Hollywood's "Great Lovers," with film clips of memorable scenes played by Valentino, John Barrymore, John Gilbert, Gable, Brando and--Elvis Presley.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE, adapted faithfully but rather ponderously from the short story by Carson McCullers, finds Playwright Edward Albee in middling-to-poor form. However, Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and a remarkable actor-dwarf, Michael Dunn, give the evening moments of phantasmagorical vitality.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. In a bizarre newlyweds' nook, Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford have only love to keep them warm--but Playwright Neil Simon stokes the evening with a fire of laughs.
JENNIE is a grandiose musical dud, dropped on Laurette Taylor's early life and hard times. Amid the gloom, Mary Martin shines like the inextinguishable star that she is.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two one-acters by Peter Shaffer, play Getting to Know You, first to the sketchy theme of boyish bunglings in a scrubby flat, second to the more artful airs of a detective shadowing a seemingly errant wife.
THE REHEARSAL. Neither the 18th century costumes they wear for a play within this Anouilh play nor their witty words can hide the motives of aristocrats intent on destroying a pure--and classless--love.
LUTHER, by John Osborne, unleashes thundering theater and shaky theology around the man who brought about the Reformation. In the title role, Albert Finney is a sight to behold.
Off Broadway
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, descends into the degraded minds and souls of men, and in that hell finds a startling hope of heaven.
THE ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms.
CINEMA
KNIFE IN THE WATER. In this sophisticated thriller from Poland, Director Roman Polanski puts two men and one woman aboard a small sloop, where he can explore human relations at his leisure--and with a surgeon's skill.
TOM JONES. Merely the best comedy in years. A lusty lad's progress through 18th century England is sometimes Hogarthian, always hilarious, and acted to the hilt by Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith and supporting company under the masterful direction of Tony Richardson.
MURIEL. France's Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour, Last Year at Marienbad) embarks on an original, ambitious but ultimately tiresome trip down memory lane, with Marienbad's luminous Delphine Seyrig in brilliant form as an aging widow who yearns to recapture a long-lost love.
MARY, MARY. Jean Kerr's crackling comedy about an all but divorced couple (Debbie Reynolds and Barry Nelson) proves, if it proves anything, that incompatibility can be funny.
THE HOUSEHOLDER. Sweetly humorous are the clashes between Prem and Indu, a pair of restive young marrieds getting used to each other in spite of themselves in modern Delhi.
BOOKS
Best Reading
DOROTHY AND RED, by Vincent Sheean.
Novelist Sinclair Lewis and globe-trotting Dorothy Thompson made a glamorous couple, but their marriage was stormy and it ended in a bitter divorce. Miss Thomp-on recorded every detail, from the giddy courtship to the last wrathful grape, and Sheean squares the famous family circle with some superfluous amateur analysis of his own.
A SENATE JOURNAL, by Allen Drury. As a U.P. reporter, Senate-Watcher Drury Advise and Consent) kept a journal of ;he Senate during the crucial war years 1943-1945. The result is a very human account of legislators fighting each other, the war, and the President.
THE BENDER, by Paul Scott. A compassionate novel about an intelligent but ineffectual man watching himself go down for what may be the last time.
JOHN KEATS, by Walter Jackson Bate, and JOHN KEATS, by Aileen Ward. While Bate pays extensive attention to the great poetry, Miss Ward is more absorbed with the poet's life, but both biographies are first-rate.
THE HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonely hearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications who realizes, with horror, that he is losing his sincerity and developing writer's cramp in the smug swamps of suburbia.
THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. Most of these letters were written in the late '30s, when socially militant literati considered Fitzgerald an anachronism left over from a bankrupt era. Though poor and puzzled, the author did some of his best writing then--some of it in this volume.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (3)
4. Caravans, Michener (4)
5. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (7)
6. City of Night, Rechy
7. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (8)
8. The Three Sirens, Wallace (5)
9. The Living Reed, Buck (6)
10. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (10)
NONFICTION
1. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (1)
2. The American Way of Death, Mitford (2)
3. Rascal, North (4)
4. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy
5. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (5)
6. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (3)
7. My Life and Loves, Harris
8. The Education of American Teachers, Conant (7)
9. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (6)
10. A Kind of Magic, Ferber (8)
* All times E.S.T.
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