Time Listings: Oct. 2, 1964

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Wednesday, September 30 FACE THE NATION (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).*Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate William E. Miller answers questions.

POLITICS '64 (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A report on the growing strength of the Republican Party in the South.

Thursday, October 1

THE DONNA REED SHOW (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Guest Stars Willie Mays, Don Drysdale and Leo Durocher appear in "Play Ball," doing just that as ringers in a baseball game between doctors and college freshmen.

KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATRE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Sal Mineo, Jo Van Fleet and Albert Dekker in a drama about a deaf-mute apprentice cabinetmaker who is framed for the murder of his boss.

Friday, October 2

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THE ATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Fred Astaire, in his first TV musical comedy, plays a record-company owner who is trying to put a popular comedian (Louis Nye) under contract. Fred also dances.

THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Jack, as Paul Revere, and Guest Lucille Ball, as his wife, present their version of the real story behind Revere's midnight ride.

Sunday, October 4

DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). A contemporary morality play, Will the Real Jesus Christ Please Stand Up, in which the producer of a big-budgeted Biblical spectacular auditions five costumed actors for the starring role of Jesus Christ, and must decide who best fits the part.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The producers strapped a shoulder-holster camera and wireless microphone on Chicago Black Hawks Forward Stan Mikita to capture the lightning-paced action of big-league professional hockey.

Monday, October 5

90 BRISTOL COURT (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).

Another new family-situation comedy, but this is a three-in-one, 90-minute package of interlinking stories about neighboring families in a Southern California apartment court: Karen stars 15-year-old Debbie Watson, with Richard Denning and Mary LaRoche as her parents and Gina Gillespie as the little sister; Harris Against the World has Jack Klugman in the title role and Patricia Barry as his wife; Tom, Dick and Mary stars Steve Franken as Dick, Joyce Bulifant as Mary, and Don Galloway as Tom. Première.

RECORDS

Chorals & Song

VERDI: REQUIEM (2 LPs; Angel). When Verdi wrote his Requiem, most critics complained that it was too passionate and sensuous, but one sympathizer de fended him. Italians have their own emo tional habits, he argued, and should be allowed to "talk to the dear Lord in the Italian language." Conductor Carlo Mario Giulini does so here, and it is unlikely that anyone could be more eloquent. He does not set the Dies Irae ablaze as Toscanini did, but his performance has a steady incandescence. Honors also go to London's Philharmonia Orchestra, its huge chorus, and the four soloists, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, and the especially lustrous Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig.