On Broadway

CINEMA

Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's impressive courtroom drama involving murder, rape and outspoken language about both. James Stewart as a deceptively easygoing lawyer and Lee Remick as an accident-prone tart are excellent, but famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch steals the show as the judge.

Wild Strawberries (Swedish). For art-movie fans, the Bergman to reckon with is not Ingrid but Ingmar, a prolific writerdirector; in this haunting movie, he explores the spiritually empty space behind the busy life of an eminent old doctor.

The Nun's Story. Audrey Hepburn in a gloriously photographed but religiously shallow study of a Roman Catholic nun who finds that she can keep only two of her vows--obedience is her undoing.

Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen.

Ask Any Girl. Charming Shirley Mac-Laine inspires David Niven, a motivational researcher, to do a little impulse buying himself.

TELEVISION

This is the week to go to the movies. The TV schedule is full of reruns and summer-limp musical variety programs. But the dedicated televiewer might try these shows:

Wed., Aug. 5

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Rerun of Prescription: Hypnosis, which shows how an often-abused medical technique can be useful.

Thurs., Aug. 6

Who Pays? (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A chance to look at the latest and possibly the last of a dying breed: the quiz show. Mike Wallace is M.C.; Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Celeste Holm and Gene Klavan serve as panelists.

Sat., Aug. 8

Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A rollicking rerun of one western kidding another. George Montgomery has a high old time playing the hard-eyed hero of Have Sword, Will Duel.

Sun., Aug. 9

The Catholic Hour (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). An ecclesiastic fantasy--the trial of a cloistered nun accused of "deserting the world."

Conquest (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). After a season full of soaring space shots, Air Force Major David Simons' record-breaking 1957 balloon ascent (20 miles up) may seem minor stuff. But even in a rerun, it is an exciting adventure.

Mon., Aug. 10

Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Cooling fare for a summer evening--the ascent of Mt. McKinley, highest peak in North America (20,270 ft.), by Brad Washburn's twelve-man, one-woman expedition.

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The 500th hour of Westing-house-sponsored drama. Two Counts of Murder gives Raymond Massey and David Janssen a chance to tangle with politics, nepotism, young love, and just enough mayhem to keep the plot boiling.

THEATER

A Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier in Lorraine Hansberry's electric first play about a South Side Chicago Negro family bargaining for happiness.

J.B. Archibald MacLeish's Job, though grey-flanneled and smartly modern, has real old-fashioned theatrical excitement.

My Fair Lady holds the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up) followed by Flower Drum Song just about rounding the box-office turn.

Off Broadway

Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, ages, rages and charms as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the 70-year-old humorist.

Straw Hat

Skowhegan, Me., Lake wood Theater: Gloria Swanson and Buddy Rogers in Red Letter Day, dramatic comedy by Andrew Rosenthal.

Ogonquit, Me., Playhouse: Celeste Holm in What a Day!, a new musical, with Ronnie Graham.

Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Lloyd Bridges rolls the Runyon dice as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls.

Bayville, L.I., North Shore Playhouse: Lady Gregory's translation of Mirando-lina, by Carlo Goldoni.

East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: Shirley Booth in a bedroom farce, Nina.

Nyack, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: Margaret Truman stars (but does not sing) in The Happy Time.

Jutland, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: Joan Bennett and Donald Cook in Anniversary Waltz.

Oxon Hill, Md., Rosecroft Music Circus: Brigadoon, starring Doretta Morrow.

Evergreen Park, Ill., Drury Lane Theater: Remains to Be Seen, with Denise Darcel.

Highland Park, Ill., Tenthouse Theater: Last season's Broadway hit, Rashomon, with last season's Broadway star, Sessue Hayakawa.

Kansas City, Mo., Starlight Theater: Gordon MacRae and his leading lady-wife Sheila in Bells Are Ringing.

Dallas, State Fair Music Hall: Bob Crosby and Janis Paige make music in High Button Shoes.

Santa Fe, N.M., Summer Theater: The original Fair Lady, Shaw's Pygmalion.

Laguna Beach, Calif., Playhouse: The Diary of Anne Frank, with Jenny Hecht, Playwright Ben Hecht's 15-year-old actress daughter, who is almost as seasoned as Pop.

Seattle, Showboat Theater: Euripides' The Trojan Women, produced by the University of Washington's School of Drama.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. Beauty's dark power to paralyze the will is merely one among many meanings in this sensuously symbolic novel about the burning of a 14th century Buddhist temple.

For 2-c- Plain, by Harry Golden. The twice-bestselling pickle-barrel philosopher (Only in America) may work too hard at being a Jewish Will Rogers, but he rambles on entertainingly about Southern foibles and the good old poorboy days.

The Satyricon of Petronius. A bawdy belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all and translated with unexpurgated wit by Classicist William Arrowsmith.

The Tents of Wickedness, by Peter De Vries. The plot and the people may be familiar in this sequel to Comfort Me with Apples, but the parodies offer a punoramic view of modern fiction.

Image of America, by R. L. Bruckberger. A literate, levelheaded French priest gives a lambent account of how the American Revolution turned dream into reality, while the Russian Revolution turned mirage into nightmare.

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

Senator Joe McCarthy, by Richard Rovere. A 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. The 17th century wit, courtier, soldier and cynic pressed the tart juices of aphorism out of the sweet and sour grapes of his varied social experience.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Intellectual reminiscences of the days when the future queen of existentialism was only a restless student princess.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Exodus, Uris (1)*

2. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (2)

3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3)

4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5)

5. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (4)

6. The Tents of Wickedness, De Vries

7. Celia Garth, Bristow (6)

8. Lolita, Nabokov (9)

9. California Street, Busch 10. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris,

Gallico (7)

NONFICTION

1. The Status Seekers, Packard (2)

2. The Years with Ross, Thurber (1)

3. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (3)

4. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (9)

5. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (4)

6. Richard Nixon. Mazo

7. Senator Joe McCarthy, Rovere

8. Only in America, Golden (6)

9. My Brother Was an Only Child, Douglas (7)

10. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (8)

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