TELEVISION
Wednesday, January 15 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The major scientific breakthroughs since 1948 discussed by Astronomer Gart Wester-hout, Maser Inventor Charles H. Townes, Geologist Bruce Heezen, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Prizewinning Biochemist Severe Ochoa and Scientific American Publisher Gerard Piel.
Thursday, January 16 DR. KILDARE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Yvette Mimieux makes her TV debut as an epileptic with a compulsion for surfing. KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Gloria Swanson as an eccentric recluse suspected of murdering her six-year-old daughter.
Friday, January 17
THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOW (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Highlights of Hope's Christmas tour of U.S. military bases in Turkey, Greece, Tripoli, Libya and Italy.
Saturday, January 18 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National Figure Skating championships in Cleveland.
Sunday, January 19
NBC OPERA COMPANY (NBC, 2-4 p.m.). Lucia di Lammermoor in English, with Linda Newman, Michael Trimbel and Richard Torigi. Color.
ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). A special on the Creative Writing Center at Stanford University featuring an interview with Director Wallace E. Stegner.
TWENTY-THIRD BING CROSBY NATIONAL PRO-AMATEUR GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Conclusion of the 72-hole event at the Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Club.
TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A documentary on the invasion of Sicily in World War II.
THE ART OF COLLECTING (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A tour through the private art collections of Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Lehman, Norton Simon, Alexander Girard and John Denman, with interviews of the collectors and narration by Aline Saarinen. Color.
Monday, January 20
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Alan Arkin in a drama called "The Beatnik and the Politicians."
THEATER
On Broadway THE CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Perignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong.
MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, blends clowns, music, lacerated feet and shrieking nerves to prove that life is a grueling test rather like a 3,000-hour dance marathon. In this strange spectacle that suggests new directions for the U.S. theater, Julie Harris
is put to the test, and her unsparing, childlike ardor makes this one of her finest performances.
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. An engaging heel of a writer-producer who even bounces jokes off his twelve-year-old daughter, Robert Preston impersonates a TV "genius" whose career is a castle of balloons--when one is popped, the escaping hot air just fills another.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon. Newlyweds Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford are a handsome enough couple to model for any refrigerator ad, but their apartment--and its visitors--are mad, mad, mad, mad, mad.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Under dingy eaves, or in front of bookcases chockful of texts, Playwright Peter Shaffer sees the awkward and funny, stuffy and tender sides of people searching for love.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, chides the British lower classes for being docile sheep that raise nary a baa of protest at their lot. The setting is an R.A.F. training camp, and the military gamesmanship is brisk and funny.
LUTHER, more performance than play, is lifted by Albert Finney's acting from the vagueness of its theology to a vital concern for a man whose purpose is more obsessive than sure, but whose impact set the Reformation in motion.
Off Broadway
THE TROJAN WOMEN. This masterly revival of the Euripides classic, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, has brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion and cruel inner hurt. Mildred Dunnock, Carrie Nye and Joyce Ebert deserve the compliment of truth--that they are worthy of the playwright.
IN WHITE AMERICA thoughtfully and evocatively combines a series of dramatic readings to chronicle the Negro's legacy of pain, oppression and denial, from the days of slavery to the present hour.
CINEMA
THE EASY LIFE. Almost as funny as Divorce--Italian Style, almost as mordant as La Dolce Vita, this brilliant thriller is one of the best Italian movies of 1963: the story of a pixy Quixote (Vittorio Gassman) who grabs himself a solid squire (Jean Louis Trintignant), mounts his sports car, and rides madly away on a quest for nothing at all.
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. Made in Manhattan, this pulp-fiction romance about a girl "in trouble" wisely plays down its drama, plays up its gritty humor, and becomes an actor's holiday for Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen and company.
HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. And all hail Adolfas Mekas, a young and impecunious U.S. director who in his first feature film has produced a far-out and very funny farce, the first cubistic comedy of the new world cinema.
NIGHT TIDE. In this promising first film by a young writer-director named Curtis Harrington, a young U.S. sailor is lured toward destruction by a Lorelei who lives under a pier in Venice, Calif.
KNIFE IN THE WATER. A keen Polish thriller with a very sharp point.
BILLY LIAR. In this tragicomic fantasy from Britain, Tom Courtenay gives a matchless performance as an undertaker's assistant whose dreams are bigger than life. And Julie Christie is a dream come true as his way-out girl friend.
TOM JONES. Henry Fielding's 18th century classic is one of the funniest novels in the language, and Tony Richardson's screen version of the book is one of the funniest films of recent years. Albert Finney is excellent as the hero, and Hugh Griffith is magnificent as Squire Western.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The last and most dramatic volume in this definitive biography of Leon Trotsky, the odd-man-out of the Communist revolution who died as he lived, fiercely but in vain.
THE QUIET ENEMY, by Cecil Dawkins. These seven longish stories about recessive but exotic people of the inland South have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind.
FATHERS TO SONS, edited by Alan Valentine. The real rattlers in this fine and funny collection of letters to famous sons from their fathers are understandably pre-Freudian. Characteristically fatherly is Heinrich Marx's letter to Son Karl: "Instead of writing a lot about Capital, make a lot of Capital."
DON'T KNOCK THE CORNERS OFF, by Caroline Glyn. The great-granddaughter of Elinor Glyn makes an early (age 15) start on a literary career, writing about friendships of Byronic intensity and alliances of Renaissance intricacy among the intense little girls at a London primary school.
"WE NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. These two short novels by the author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch concern outsiders in post-Stalin society: an earnest young man who believes Lenin to the letter, and an ancient, impoverished peasant woman.
MR. DOOLEY REMEMBERS -- THE INFORMAL MEMOIRS OF FINLEY PETER DUNNE, edited by Philip Dunne. An affectionate portrait oJ Martin Dooley, the imaginary Irish bar tender in Chicago, and his creator, Newspaperman Finley Dunne, who put in Dooley's mouth some of America's best political humor.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)
2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)
3. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (3)
4. Caravans, Michener (8)
5. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (4)
6. The Three Sirens, Wallace (7)
7. The Living Reed, Buck (9)
8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (6)
9. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (5)
10. Love, Let Me Not Hunger, Gallico
NONFICTION 1. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (2)
2. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (6)
3. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1)
4. Rascal, North (5)
5. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (3)
6. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (4)
7. Dorothy and Red, Sheean (7)
8. The Pooh Perplex, Crews (9)
9. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (8) 10. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (10)
* All times E.S.T.
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