TELEVISION
Wednesday, September 8 WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Elephant Walk (1954), with Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews and Peter Finch. Color.
Thursday, September 9 ONCE UPON A TRACTOR (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Alan Bates, Diane Cilento and Melvyn Douglas in the third of a series of dramatic programs about the activities of the United Nations.
Friday, September 10
AMERICANS ON EVEREST (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Orson Welles narrates a report on the conquest of Mount Everest by an American team, as seen in on-the-spot film footage. Color.
FDR (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). "Going Home" documents the sorrow over the death of Roosevelt, and Harry Truman's installation at the head of an uncertain country. Repeat.
Saturday, September 11 N.F.L. PRESEASON GAME (CBS, 3:30 p.m.). The New York Giants v. the Minnesota Vikings at Rosenblatt Stadium, Omaha, Neb.
WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jack Nicklaus, winner of the Masters tourney, will be joined by U.S. Open Champion Gary Player, British Open Winner Peter Thomson and Dave Marr, winner of the P.G.A. Color.
MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-12 p.m.). Bert Parks and Bess Myerson host the annual walk-on.
Sunday, September 12 LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). First of a two-part drama-discussion series on the life of Dante.
N.F.L. PRESEASON GAME (CBS, 2 p.m.). Washington Redskins v. Detroit Lions at Canton, Ohio.
U.S. NATIONAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS (ABC, 2-4 p.m.). More than 300 players compete for national titles on the courts at Forest Hills, N.Y.
WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The final six holes.
THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The Beatles open the 18th fall season of the Sullivan show with six of their hit tunes. Other guests include Soupy Sales and Cilia Black.
THE EMMY AWARDS SHOW OF 1965 (NBC, 10-11:30 p.m.). The 17th year has Sammy Davis and Danny Thomas doing the presenting.
Tuesday, September 14 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Bridges at Toko-Ri, with William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March and Mickey Rooney. Color.
RECORDS
Virtuosos
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ (2 LPs; Columbia) gave his first recital in a dozen years last May 9 at Carnegie Hall; this is a recording of that long-awaited performance. The program, which ranges from a Bach- Busoni toccata (Horowitz's good luck piece because it was the first selection on his debut program) through Chopin to Scriabin, shows a variety of technique and mood from lyric tranquillity to bravura virtuosity. The pianist is master of them all. Perhaps most beautiful is the inspired Schumann Fantasy in C Major; the final notes of the second movement float out as if played on an English horn and last unbelievably long.
RAYMOND LEWENTHAL (RCA Victor), who has the steel wrists and flying fingers for the job, is largely responsible for a revival of interest in the piano works of Charles-Valentin Alkan.
ISAAC STERN (Columbia). The violin concertos of Samuel Barber and Paul Hindemith test Stern's talents in contrasting ways. For Barber, the violin must gently caress the lush phrases and clearly sing the profusion of simple melodies. With Hindemith, the instrument becomes one of dark conflict. Stern is superbly in control of both, as is Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic.
ADOLF SCHERBAUM (Deutsche Grammophon) is the world's foremost master of the baroque trumpet, an instrument without valves (which were not added until the 19th century). On this record he presents music by Vivaldi, Torelli, Telemann, Graupner and Fasch. Clearly conversant with the horn's volatile upper register, Scherbaum sends silver runs and trills echoing through imagined medieval castles or floating above mirrored lakes at dawn.
SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (Philips) continues his masterful recording of Beethoven, this time with piano sonatas 11, 19 and 20. The full range of the composer's feelings is delineated in a firm, subtle style that lets no idiosyncrasy of the pianist cloud Beethoven's mood--which in these sonatas is light and easy, and even witty.
INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL (Everest) provides an opportunity for piano lovers to hear and compare the styles of several virtuosos--Arrau, Backhaus, Brailowsky, Casadesus, Janis and Kempff--in a single benefit concert for the U.N. Commission for World Refugees. The program hitches together the warhorses of the piano repertory, but they are played with freshness and excitement. Standouts are Wilhelm Backhaus' definitive "Moonlight" Sonata, Byron Janis' unabashedly grand performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, and Wilhelm Kempff's crystalline playing of Schubert's Impromptu in G Major.
CINEMA
HELP! The Beatles are back--pursued on sea and ski by bloodthirsty Orientals and mad scientists through some of the wildest sight gags this side of the Marx Brothers.
RAPTURE. Patricia Gozzi, 15, gives a blazing performance as an emotionally starved child living in a lonely farmhouse on the Brittany coast with her bitter recluse of a father (Melvyn Douglas) and a feral servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom).
DARLING. Julie Christie's polished portrayal of the progress of a jet-set jade from obscurity to celebrity is irresistible in Director John (Billy Liar) Schlesinger's brittle satire.
THE IPCRESS FILE. A dim-sighted counterspy gamely foils a scheme to scramble British brainpower.
SHIP OF FOOLS. Although Director Stanley Kramer has turned the allegorical Ship into a showboat, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin,
Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make good company for the long haul.
THE COLLECTOR. Samantha Eggar is a rare specimen captured by a demented lepidopterist (Terence Stamp).
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. This madcap comedy giddily conjures up a great London-Paris air race of 1910, highlighted by a flap-happy cast including Alberto Sordi, Gert Frobe, and Terry-Thomas.
BOOKS
THE GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. During World War I, the Allies used Macedonia as a dumping ground for out-of-favor generals. But in 1918 French General Franchet d'Esperey refused to stay dumped; instead, he struck boldly at the heart of Germany through Belgrade and Vienna. Palmer tells the story of D'Esperey's swift and decisive drive in highly readable style, and also wonders aloud why this strategy was not followed three years earlier.
SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfrid Sheed. When his wife calls him a bore and leaves him, a nice, adjusted insurance salesman sets out to discover the Cool World. He learns that hips are duller than squares.
ESAU AND JACOB, by Machado de Assis. Rio de Janeiro in the last decade of the 19th century is presented to the reader with a dated but delectable use of hyperbole, metaphor and epigram.
THE LUMINOUS DARKNESS, by Howard Thurman. The essays of Dr. Thurman, a Negro and dean emeritus of Boston University's chapel, reflect the experience of a man who has given thought as well as action to the cause of his people.
NEVER CALL RETREAT, by Bruce Catton. Deservedly the bestselling of Civil War historians, Catton shows the South overwhelmed and analyzes two great leaders: Lincoln, who resisted vindictive penalties on the South, and Lee, who refused to start a guerrilla war in the Virginia hills, which would have bled the country dry.
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. A bitter novel about a group of Russian intellectuals languishing in an insane asylum because they dared to oppose Soviet leaders.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (11ast week)
2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2)
3. Hotel, Hailey (3)
4. The Green Berets, Moore (4)
5. The Looking Glass War, le Carre (5)
6. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (9)
7. The Ambassador, West (6)
8. The Rabbi, Gordon
9. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (8)
10. Night of Camp David, Knebel (7)
NONFICTION 1. The Making of the President, 1964, White (1)
2. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (2)
3. Intern, Doctor X (3)
4. Games People Play, Berne (5)
5. Markings, Hammarskjold (4)
6. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (6)
7. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (7)
8. The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, Levant
9. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (9)
10. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII
*All times E.D.T.
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