Time Listings: Oct. 1, 1965

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WHO'S THAT KNOCKING? (Verve Folkways). Hazel Dickens and Alice Foster blast out vintage bluegrass-country songs with fierce, raucous energy. The youngsters, almost the only successful girl duo in the field, avoid some of the slicker sounds that come out of Nashville and stick to the old driving hillbilly beat.

BLEECKER AND MACDOUGAL (Electra). Fred Neil plants his boots squarely atop a manhole at this famed Greenwich Village intersection and wails of the lot of beats and poets. But with a Western sound? Preposterous perhaps, yet Neil manages a tenuous east-west mixing of cowboy and Dylan folk-rock. The songs are all his own.

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND (Columbia). The Mcrmon Tabernacle Choir and the Philadelphia Orchestra put spurs to the war horses of folk repertory (Shenandoah, Sweet Betsy from Pike, I Wonder as I Wander). The renditions necessarily lack the spark of individual interpretation, but both Chorus Master Richard Condie and Conductor Eugene Ormandy find the essence of each song and project both melody and mood.

LONG JOHN'S BLUES (Ascot). Long John Baldry represents the blues division in Britain's takeover of folk, rock and virtually all the music the U.S. used to export exclusively. Gravel-voiced and completely loose, Baldry favors the sound of Memphis and New Orleans and practically duplicates it.

CINEMA

HELP! The new ring on Ringo's finger puts him in double jeopardy—from a couple of mad scientists and a band of Oriental cutthroats. The result is a wild spin cycle of sight gags and exotic locations. The Beatles really haven't much to do except romp along with the frantic action.

RAPTURE. Patricia Gozzi—three years older than she was in Sundays and Cybele and just as wise—blazes her way through a dark and stormy story about a lonely child (herself), her bitter father (Melvyn Douglas), and a feral servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom), whose lives are changed by the sudden appearance of a handsome escaped convict (Dean Stockwell).

DARLING. A disenchanted look at a jet-set success story, in which Julie Christie finds the room at the top is always a bedroom—and often a bore.

THE IPCRESS FILE. A British secret agent, played by Newcomer Michael Caine, is embroiled in Bond-like situations, though he is not at all the type who would be welcomed in Blade's—even with M. He makes an engaging sleuth nonetheless.

THE KNACK. The off-Broadway comedy hit about a virgin from out of town and three sex-obsessed young men is turned by Director Richard Lester into an energetic field day won by Rita Tushingham.

BOOKS

Best Reading

GOETHE, by Richard Friedenthal. This first biography in more than 20 years looks at the human side of the great German writer. Though sometimes merciless in dissecting Goethe's follies, Friedenthal succeeds in showing how his strengths and vagaries combined to provide the works of consummate imagination that rank Goethe with Shakespeare and Dante.

ONE OF THE FOUNDERS, by P. H. Newby. This deft, witty novel about a meek man who must learn to hate recalls the searing, epigrammatic satires of Henry Green.