The Perfect Furlough. The usual soldier farce, but Director Blake Edwards has turned it out with professional polish. Good conduct medal: Tony Curtis.
The Mistress (Japanese). The rise of a fallen woman is quietly, shrewdly observed by Director Shiro Toyoda in one of the best films to come out of Japan.
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield has such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera.
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Assorted monsters conspiring against humans in a film that should please as well as frighten the kiddy set.
Nine Lives (Norwegian). The saga of a Norwegian fighting his way through a hell of ice and snow, escaping the Nazis.
The Doctor's Dilemma. Shaw's 52-year-old comedy-drama about the rights of genius and the wrongs of the medical profession makes a pertly entertaining piece of photographed theater.
A Night to Remember. A skillful recreation, based on Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller, of the sinking of the Titanic.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. A sentimental, overlong, but often moving film, not unlike a Cecil DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, with Ingrid Bergman as a missionary in China.
He Who Must Die (French). The story of a modern Calvary; one of the most powerful religious movies in years.
TELEVISION
Wed., Feb. 11
Meet Mr. Lincoln (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.).*
A smooth, literate collation of contem porary photographs, campaign posters, drawings and newspaper cartoons of Honest Abe.
An Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The kindly network here gives a reprieve to those who missed the original showing of the dancing master's enchanting plunge into TV (color).
U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).
Tolstoy's short novel. Family Happiness, is no War and Peace, and for purposes of television adaptation that may be an entirely good thing; with Jean Pierre Aumont, Gloria Vanderbilt.
Thurs., Feb. 12 Zane Grey Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.).
An idea that even Maverick's satiric creators might envy: Danny Thomas, as an immigrant tailor in the Old West, stands the taunts of the town nasties as long as he can and then swaps his pressin' iron for the shootin' kind.
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).
James Mason and Margaret Leighton as a pair of lawyers in The Second Man, a superior Britannic whodunit.
Fri., Feb. 13 Your Hit Parade (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).
Musical archivists may show scant interest in the warbling of Dorothy Collins and Johnny Desmond, but a player-piano version of Rhapsody in Blue, plunked out by Gershwin himself in 1937, is of historical interest.
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Duck Flies the Coop, a whole hour of Donald's quacked adventures.
Sat., Feb. 14
Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Viewers may often get the uncomfortable feeling that they have tuned in Sociology 1, but when the show gets out of the classroom it is a diverting western, and George Montgomery is the most ingratiating of heroes.
Sun., Feb. 15
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Veteran Editor Walter Millis, backed up by charts and photographs, remembers the Maine and the U.S.'s 1898 war with Spain.
The Last Word (CBS, 3-3:30 p.m.). William Saroyan, who wallows in language like a dieter in a delicatessen, is this week's guest etymologist.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Films covering the career of Kemal Ataturk, father of modern Turkey.
Mon., Feb. 16
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Broadway's Janis Paige in a straight role as the long-fanged proprietress of a Panama City nightclub.
THEATER
On Broadway
J.B. A 20th century morality play by Poet Archibald MacLeish, expressing modern man's torment in terms of the Book of Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a rather hollow ending, it makes for an arresting evening in the theater.
Flower Drum Song. A routine but expertly guided tour, conducted by Rodgers and Hammerstein, of San Francisco's Chinatown. Among the three-star sights: Singers Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki.
The Pleasure of His Company. Cyril Ritchard as an overprivileged, middle-aged delinquent who plays havoc with his daughter's behavior patterns.
A Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling illusions is still the season's best drama. With Eric Portman, Kim Stanley, Helen Hayes.
My Fair Lady, with inimitable charm, The Music Man, with glorious corn, and West Side Story, with riotous drama, add up to a memorable trio of musicals.
Two for the Seesaw. An uneven but touching duet of loneliness and humor. The entire cast: Anne Bancroft, Dana Andrews.
On Tour
My Fair Lady in DETROIT and Two for the Seesaw and The Music Man in CHICAGO are adequate replicas of the Broadway originals.
Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Henry V, played by London's Old Vic Company, in WASHINGTON.
Look Back in Anger. Playwright John Osborne's fairly arresting snarl at all the world. In MILWAUKEE.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's sometimes vivid, sometimes facile family chronicle. In CLEVELAND.
The Girls in 509. An intermittently amusing situation comedy in which Peggy Wood plays a violently Republican battle-ax while Imogene Coca provides some wonderfully whacky kindling. In DETROIT.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a guardsman's busby.
A Medicine for Melancholy, by Ray Bradbury. A fine collection of typically inner-directed short stories by science fiction's suavest outer-bounder.
Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. A love story written with passion, grace and honesty.
Across Paris, by Marcel Ayme. Twelve superlative short stories by the gifted French novelist who puts all of life's ironies in the creative fire.
The Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist put his last hurrah for life in the mouth of a faith healer who suggests that the road to God need not be paved with good conventions.
The Haunted Palace, by Frances Winwar. Drinks, drugs and near-madness were Poe's doom, as this fine biography shows, but genius was his destiny.
The Waist-High Culture, by Thomas Griffith. A look at the U.S. cultural ledger and some of its misplaced values.
Lady I., by Romain Gary. An urbane ribbing of those who swallow ideals but cannot stomach people.
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic.
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Willful, wistful Holly Golightly is waiting for true love's call, but the men who ring are all wrong numbers.
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book without a country that honors all humanity.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1) 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. Exodus, Uris (3) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 6. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6) 7. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver 8. Lady L., Gary (8) 9. Tenderloin, Adams 10. The Best of Everything, Jaffe
NONFICTION
1. Only in America, Golden (1) 2. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (3) 3. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 4. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger (6) 5. Wedemeyer Reports! (4) 6. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (5) 7. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Boyington 8. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (8) 9. The New Testament in Modern English, translated by Phillips 10. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery (7)
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