Room at the Top (British). The career and comeuppance of a young Englishman on the make, based on John Braine's bestselling novel. One of Britain's best pictures in years.
Compulsion. A terse, tense melodrama based on "the crime of the century," the 1924 Leopold-Loeb case.
The Diary of Anne Frank. Newcomer Millie Perkins and a brilliant cast in a movie masterpiece directed by George Stevens.
Some Like It Hot. Humor triumphs over vulgarity in this uproarious farce starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a couple of guys dressed up as dolls, and Marilyn Monroe as a doll who needs no dressing up at all.
The Mistress (Japanese). A simple and moving restatement of a timeless truth: that even for a "fallen woman," the soul is free.
Aparajito (Indian). The brilliant second part (the first was Father Panchali) of a trilogy, made by Director Satyajit Ray, telling the story of India's social revolution in terms of one family's sorrows and beatitudes.
TELEVISION
Wed., May 13
Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.)*Uncle Millie's last show of the season, uplifted by Carl Sandburg's return for more Poems to Play Jazz By.
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Armstrong stumbled badly when it embarked on a format of semi-documentary drama, but of late its stride has shown more confidence. This week: February's truck-convoy incident that aggravated the current Berlin crisis.
Thurs., May 14
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). An original teleplay by Reginald Rose, starring Red Buttons and Diana Lynn as a shy couple who finds marriage a little more complicated than the lonely-hearts club had implied it would be.
Fri., May 15
Bob Hope Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The well-known monthly horse-race includes, as added starters, Rosemary Clooney, Wendell Corey, Joan Collins.
Sat., May 16
Cimarron. City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). An hour of oats may produce some indigestion, but affable Actor George Montgomery does a lot to make the show palatable.
Sun., May 17
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Vertijets," a documentary on the Air Force's X-13.
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Correspondent David Brinkley, as light on his feet as he is on the ear, whips through the Middle East and several Mediterranean nations.
The Steve Allen Show (NBC, 7:30-- All times E.D.T. 8:30 p.m.). Half drowned out by the ruckus over ratings, Allen has quietly built one of the most entertaining of the weekly variety shows.
Meet McGraw (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The background music may not win any awards, and neither will McGraw, but his reruns still prove him to be one of the more efficient, amiable private eyes.
Mon., May 18
America Pauses for the Merry Month of May (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The first edition of this vocal version of Wide Wide World hardly showed signs of budding, but the seed catalogue is impressive: Marian Anderson, Carol Haney, Art Carney, etc.
Tues., May 19
Woman! (CBS, 3-4 p.m.). Claudette Colbert referees a new series "devoted to exploring matters of greatest interest to the women of America." First matter of greatest interest: "Do they marry too young?"
THEATER
On Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun. The New York Drama Critics Circle Prize Play about the hopes and fears, tears and laughter of a South Side Chicago Negro family. Uncommonly honest, touching, warm.
A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, gongs, dances, and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote it.
Redhead. Musicomedienne Gwen Verdon is loaded with talent and gallantly spends it all to keep this ne'er-do-well musical whodunit solvent.
J.B. Poet Archibald MacLeish has retried Job in the guise of a modern American businessman. A little thin in eloquence and logic, but richly exciting theater.
La Plume de Ma Tante. This madcap French revue is guaranteed to tickle the funnybone of everybody's tante.
The Flower Drum Song. Rodgers & Hammerstein have left their genius out of this routine musical, but Pat Suzuki and Miyoshi Umeki are worth the price of omissions.
A Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill weaves a spell of sorts out of his favorite notion--illusions are the staff of life.
My Fair Lady cribs from Shaw, West Side Story cribs from Shakespeare, and The Music Man cribs from a silo of Iowa corn, making these three musicals grand larceny and great entertainment.
Off Broadway
Mark Twain Tonight! The reports of Mark Twain's death have been greatly exaggerated. The great humorist is delightfully alive as a platform lecturer of 70. The brilliant lookalike: Actor Hal Holbrook, 34.
On Tour
My Fair Lady in KANSAS CITY, Mo., Two for the Seesaw in Los ANGELES and The Music Man in CHICAGO do justice to the Broadway originals.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Time Walked, by Vera Panova. An apolitical but warmly Russian account of the tides in the life of a six-year-old boy.
Hellenism, by Arnold J. Toynbee. The historian finds lessons for the present in ancient Greece's humanism and worship of city-states, both of which he deplores.
Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. Six stories about social D.P.s--Jews trying to "pass," or at least belong, in the Gentile world.
The House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. Intellectual Panjandrum Barzun rallies his peers to rout the termites of egalitarianism, mass education, artiness, science worship and similar pests that are destroying, as he sees it, the pillars of civilization.
King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A captivating history about Mithridates, who at 21 killed his brother, married his sister, mounted the throne of Pontus and bedeviled Imperial Rome.
Points of View, by Somerset Maugham. Five essays in the tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy.
Endurance, by Alfred Lansing. Sir Ernest Shackleton's foolish-heroic Antarctic expedition of 1915, re-created in well-modulated prose.
The Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. The author, a World War II veteran of Merrill's Marauders, recalls the savage Burmese actions with sharp description and incisive reflection.
By the North Gate, by Gwyn Griffin. A taut little novel that shows Britons at an outlying African desert post trying to stand up under the white man's burden.
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. Life, love and politics in Alexandria, as described by an exciting writer (earlier books in a projected tetralogy: Justine, Balthazar).
The Notion of Sin, by Robert McLaughlin. A well-observed crowd of martini drinkers on the rocks in Manhattan.
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Memorable portrait of a wonderfully bizarre New Zealand schoolmarm with a passion for life and teaching.
Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. The old-reform-school tie flashily worn by an unreformed and gifted Irish writer.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Exodus, Uris (2*)
2. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4)
3. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)
4. Lolita, Nabokov (3)
5. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5)
6. From the Terrace, O'Hara (6)
7. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (8)
8. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico
9. Mountolive, Durrell (7) 10. Trumbull Park, Brown (9)
NONFICTION
1. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (1)
2. Only in America, Golden (2)
3. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (4)
4. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (3)
5. Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins (6)
6. How I Turned $1,000 Into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (5)
7. My Brother Was An Only Child, Douglas (8)
8. The Marauders, Ogburn
9. Collision Course, Moscow (7)
10. Brotherhood of Evil, Sondern
*All times E.D.T.
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