Television: Jan. 31, 1964

Wednesday, January 29 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "Les Halles: A Farewell," a parting glance at the famous, eight-century-old Paris food market, soon to be decentralized.

Friday, January 31

1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Men's downhill and cross-country skiing and ice hockey events on video tapes made in Innsbruck and jetted across the Atlantic.

Saturday, February 1

EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). An analogy is made between sports and ballet, with New York City Ballet's Jacques d'Amboise demonstrating.

1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). Special ski jump, two-man bobsled and ladies' figure skating events.

THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A gynecologist (Eileen Heckart) is arrested for operating a birth control clinic.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:27 p.m.). Lust for Life, MGM's 1956 film version of the tormented life of Painter Vincent van Gogh, played by Kirk Douglas. Color.

Sunday, February 2

1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). Ladies' slalom, two-man bobsled finals, and ladies' cross-country events.

ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). "The Oxford Method," an examination of Oxford University's tutorial system, featuring interviews with fellows and students.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A player's-eye view of ice hockey, with Chicago Blackhawk Stan Mikita, wired for sound and with a camera attached to him, playing an actual game.

Monday, February 3

THE LUCY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Lucille Ball teaches Ethel Merman to sing.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). "The Birth of a Movie—The Cardinal."

1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Men's giant slalom and ladies' figure skating.

Tuesday, February 4

1964 WINTER OLYMPICS (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Ladies' giant slalom, combined ski jump, and toboggan finals.

NBC WHITE PAPER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Cuba, Bay of Pigs."

THEATER

On Broadway

HELLO, DOLLY! is a handsome, happy and airborne visit to Little Old New York, thanks chiefly to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion. Carol Channing, as a sassy matchmaker with heart, boosts the show's eye, ear and laugh appeal.

MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, is a dance made macabre by clowning, roughhousing and tenderness, but it is illuminated by the little-girl-lost-and-found acting style of Julie Harris.

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. A glib, gabby phony of a TV writer (Robert Preston) tries to shore up a crumbling career with sleight-of-tongue, and makes it.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Two antic newlyweds, plus a Hungarian gourmet and a pill-popper from New Jersey, amusingly find happiness in a bewildering New York brownstone.

THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Balancing faintheartedness and bravado, romanticism and Life Force, Playwright Peter Shaffer has written two one-acters in which an imaginative boy and a cocky detective shadow love.

CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING. At an R.A.F. base, lower-class conscripts turn in the twist and rock 'n' roll for folk song and poetry. Playwright Arnold Wesker challenges them with scorching good humor to give up their status quo for rebellion against the class system.