Television: Oct. 7, 1966

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ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy's guests are Anthony Newley, Bobby Darin, Nancy Wilson and Herb Shriner.

CAROL AND COMPANY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a musical variety special, Carol Burnett calls in Rock Hudson, Ken Berry and Frank Gorshin for company.

Monday, October 10

THE ROGER MILLER SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). "King of the Road" Miller hosts Arthur Godfrey.

Tuesday, October 11

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). "A Birdseye Tour of Scotland," with Harry Reasoner from a whirlybird.

THEATER

On Broadway

MAME. This musical comedy has the shine of professionalism and the sharpness of a finely honed skate blade. Angela Lansbury is graciously glossy as Patrick Dennis' most celebrated relative.

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! How it looked from Ireland is the perspective offered through the lens of Playwright Brian Friel. Patrick Bedford and Donald Donnelly make pleasing impressions as double exposures of a young man about to take a one-way jet to America.

SWEET CHARITY. The bitter life of a taxi dancer (Gwen Verdon) who is tired of being for hire but can't find a man for forever.

CACTUS FLOWER is a transplanted sex farce from Paris about the ticklish romantic situations a roué dentist (Barry Nelson) gets into and the dental assistant (Lauren Bacall) who extracts him.

Off Broadway

HOGAN'S GOAT is Playwright William Alfred's melopoetic study of the political animal in brawling Irish Brooklyn at the turn of the century.

THE MAD SHOW gives a passing nod to Alfred E. Neuman's mad mag, but concentrates its satiric discourtesies on fringes of life and society more foolish than lunatic.

RECORDS

Low-Priced Classics

A cheaper LP is not necessarily an inferior one, as buyers of RCA Victrola, Everyman, Richmond and Nonesuch recordings long ago discovered. This fall three more companies—Angel, Philips and Epic—using various economies, are releasing dozens of performances, some old, some new, at about $2.50 an LP.

Of the three new labels, Seraphim ("Angels of the highest order") has the brightest roster of musicians, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Philips' World Series has less prominent but still lustrous names (Clara Haskil, Marcel Dupré) and an equally broad selection of works. Epic's Crossroads, the only one of the trio with all recent, all truly stereophonic recordings, has culled its list from that of the Czechoslovak firm Supraphon and thus gives voice to the Czech Philharmonic, the Smetana Quartet, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Some jewels in new settings:

PUCCINI: LA BOHÈME (2 LPs; Seraphim). The recording dates from 1956, a wonderful year to catch Soprano Victoria de los Angeles as the purest of Mimis, Tenor Jussi Bjoerling as the most poetic of Rodolfos, and Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham as an expressive Puccinist. The album was produced by the European firm EMI and originally sold by RCA Victor in the U.S. When EMI severed ties with Victor, the album was dropped from Victor's catalogue, only to be resurrected now with its new trademark of little seraphim wings. Mono only.