On Broadway

CINEMA

Anatomy of a Murder. Lee Remick and James Stewart are slickly professional in this adaptation of 1958's most physiological bestseller, but even they cannot compete with a cinema newcomer from Boston named Joseph N. Welch.

Wild Strawberries (Swedish). A hauntingly beautiful, psychologically disturbing film by prolific Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, which, in a series of cunningly conceived flashbacks, reveals the spiritual emptiness that has pervaded the life of an eminent doctor.

The Nun's Story. A dramatically admirable, brilliantly photographed but religiously rather shallow study of a Roman Catholic nun's inner battle between love of God and love of mankind. With Audrey Hepburn.

Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin's songs, Pearl Bailey's lusty singing and Sammy Davis Jr.'s diabolic portrayal of Sportin' Life pep up Sam Goldwyn's sometimes ponderous $7,000,000 attempt to film (in wide-screen Todd-AO and lush color) the No. 1 American folk opera.

Middle of the Night. Fredric March as an aging widower who becomes involved with his 24-year-old receptionist (Kim Novak), in Playwright Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky's most, sustained and mature work to date.

Ask Any Girl. Shirley MacLaine plays a fresh cupcake who travels to New York, tries to keep all the boys from nibbling the icing.

TELEVISION

Wed., July 22 The Dave King Show (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Summer fun and games with the top banana on Britain's comic stalk. Color.

Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.

to end). Eddie Machen, the No. 2 heavy weight contender until his soft jaw ran into Ingo's hard right, mixes with Reuben Vargas in a return match.

Thurs., July 23 Who Pays? (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). New panel quiz show emceed by Griller Mike Wallace, with Celeste Holm, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Gene Klavan.

21 Beacon Street. (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.).

New private-eye series starring Dennis Morgan.

Fri., July 24 Ellery Queea (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Lee Philips as the grand gumshoe -- admirably supported by Edna Best, Judith Evelyn, Russell Nype -- is confronted with murder while lecturing a small, socially elite group. Color.

Sat., July 25 Brenner (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Detective Lieut. Roy Brenner (Edward Binns), backed by a galpal (Lee Grant), tracks a bookie ring that uses kids as collectors.

Sun., July 26 Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Operation Noah's Ark -- the res cue of African game along the rising Zambezi River.

The Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).

Always-bright Chirper Janet Blair and deep-throated John (Pajama Game) Raitt are joined by Comics Wally Cox and Joyce Jameson.

Mon., July 27

Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). To Madagascar, where Explorer-Photographer Quentin Keynes guides viewers through ancient religious rituals.

Tues., July 28

The Andy Williams Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Singers Cab Galloway and Julie London, Comedian Jack Durant, Singer-Pianist Norma Douglas.

THEATER

A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry's prizewinning, flavorful first play about a Chicago Negro family that yearns to leave the black South Side jungle for a place in the white suburban sun.

J.B. Archibald MacLeish's Job in modern dress and stress.

The Pleasure of His Company. Cyril Ritchard and Co-Author Cornelia Otis Skinner in the first suavely managed drawing-room comedy in several seasons.

Redhead. One-gal-gang Gwen Verdon is great in a musical that demands all the jazz she has.

My Fair Lady and The Music Man hold first place in the musicomedy race, with Flower Drum Song a few lengths off the pace.

Off Broadway

Mark Twain Tonight! Hal Holbrook, 34, brilliantly portrays the great writer for his modern fans.

Straw Hat

Skowhegan, Me., Lakewood Theater: Biography, with Faye Emerson.

Brighton, Mass., Boston Arts Center Theater: a slick, frothy production of Twelfth Night, with Siobhan McKenna, Zachary Scott, Fritz Weaver and Tammy Grimes.

Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet alternating with The Merry Wives of Windsor and All's Well That Ends Well.

Westport, Conn., Country Playhouse: Red Letter Day, a bright new play with some oldtimers, namely Gloria Swanson and Buddy Rogers.

Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Spa Summer Theater: What a Day!, new revue with Celeste Holm.

Nyack, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: A Adventure, new play with Helen Hayes.

Westbury, L.I., Music Fair: a modernized version of Rodgers and Hart's Babes in Arms, with Julie Wilson.

East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: The Dragon Slayer, new play with Orson Bean.

Owings Mills, Md., New Hilltop Theater: French Postcards, new play.

Myrtle Beach, S.C., Playhouse: Come Back, Little Sheba, with the comeback girl herself, Lillian Roth.

Chicago, Edgewater Beach Playhouse: Groucho Marx takes Time for Elizabeth.

Clio, Mich., Musical Tent: Silk Stockings, with Don Ameche.

Dallas, State Fair Music Hall: that tireless old trouper, Maurice Chevalier, in a one-man show.

Seattle, Cirque Playhouse: Julie Haydon revives Anita Loos's Happy Birthday.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Tents of Wickedness, by Peter De Vries. The New Yorker's Peter Pun parodies the Symbol Simons of modern literature, concludes that they are juvenile, if not really delinquent.

Image of America, by R. L. Bruckberger. A French priest's moving, trenchant essay on why America, not Russia, is the century's really revolutionary force and the world's best hope.

Richard Nixon, by Earl Mazo. A generally friendly but fair account of a fascinating political career.

Senator Joe McCarthy, by Richard Rovere. A well-balanced portrait by an able Washington reporter who convincingly presents Joe as a reckless political hipster.

The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. Tail feathers from man's selfesteem, neatly plucked by the 17th century cynic who observed that "we all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."

Fire at Sea, by Thomas Gallagher. A suspenseful, factual whodunit about the burning of the cruise ship Morro Castle.

The Great Impostor, by Robert Crichton. Fred Demara Jr., the blubbery elf who changes identities as other men change shirts, sketched in an amusing biography.

Robert Rogers of the Rangers, by John R. Cuneo. An able biography of the New Hampshire farmer who became the backwoods scourge of the French and Indian War, later planned a fruitless search for the Northwest Passage.

The Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo An-dric. A talented Yugoslav writer evokes 300 years of his land's history in the tramp of traders across an old bridge.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Before Sartre and art, it was prunes and prisms, recalls the unmarried queen mother of France's intellectuals in her absorbing memoirs.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (1)* 2. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (2) 3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 4. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (3) 5. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5) 6. The Light Infantry Ball, Basso (7) 7. Celia Garth, Bristow (9) 8. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (6) 9. Lolita, Nabokov (8) 10. The Lion, Kessel NONFICTION 1. The Status Seekers, Packard (1) 2. The Years with Ross, Thurber (2) 3. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (3) 4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (5) 5. Only in America, Golden (4) 6. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (6) 7. The House of Intellect, Barzun (8) 8. Richard Nixon, Mazo 9. Senator Joe McCarthy, Rovere (10) 10. My Brother Was an Only Child, Douglas (7)

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*Position on last week's list.

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