CINEMA Man in a Cocked Hat. Gap-toothed, numbingly British Comic Terry Thomas, aided by Peter Sellers and Thorley Walters, launches a satirical spitball at the British Foreign Office in this hilariously disrespectful spoof of the lost art of statecraft.

Bells Are Ringing. A so-so book and middling music do not keep Judy Holliday from turning this $3,000,000 Hollywood rerun of her 1956 Broadway hit into one of the year's liveliest, wittiest cinemusicals.

The Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder by turning his apartment into a glad pad for his bosses and their girls, in an excellent movie that mixes comedy, pathos and a tough sense of irony about life. With Shirley MacLaine as fetching as ever.

Dreams (Swedish). In the second installment of Director Ingmar Bergman's lewdly hilarious trilogy (the others: A Lesson in Love, Smiles of a Summer Night), the war between the sexes rages in full fury, with the female proving, to Bergman's obvious delight, the far more cunning and vigorous specimen.

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). What could have been a conventional Brief Encounter sort of romance is turned into an intensely moving, if occasionally slow, cinematic poem, largely thanks to its Hiroshima setting, where yesterday's nightmare mingles with the irresistible charms of newly growing life.

I'm AH Right, Jack. Peter Sellers with a crew of top comic accomplices, romps through England's "farewell state" satirically rapping the knuckles of both labor and management.

TELEVISION Wed., June 29

Reckoning (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A rerun of the 1958 Studio One drama, The Lonely Stage, starring Mary Astor as a grande dame of the theater who suddenly discovers herself desperately in need of the loved ones she discarded during her climb to fame.

United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Polly Bergen as a charming stranger whose presence in a small town drastically alters the lives of its inhabitants.

Thurs., June 30

Jeannie Carson Show (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). In the premiere of a new summer comedy series, Actress Carson, as a Scots immigrant, does a traffic-stopping dance in the middle of the Hudson River's George Washington Bridge.

Summer in New York (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In his third musical revue of the season, Comedian Phil Silvers plays a Manhattan man about town who decides to spend his summer vacation in the city. Guests include Carol Haney, Jules Munshin and Carol Lawrence.

Fri., July 1 Moment of Fear (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).

First in a new live drama series, the opening program tells of a stranger who saves a young couple's child from drowning, eventually grows into a sinister influence.

Sat., July 2

Olympic Trials (CBS, 5-7 p.m.). The Rev. Bob Richards, two-time Olympic gold-medal winner, helps report the finals of the 1960 U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Palo Alto, Calif.

John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The beauty, brutality and tenderness of the struggle for survival by animals and birds, as seen by famed Film Maker Arne Sucksdorff.

Sun., July 3

Convention Preview (ABC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Candidates discuss the 1960 political conventions, their chances for nomination and election.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Rerun of Freedom for the Philippines, produced by Burton Benjamin.

Tues., July 5

Diagnosis Unknown (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A new mystery series, summer replacement for The Garry Moore Show, with Patrick O'Neal as a hospital pathologist who finds crooks in his test tubes.

THEATER

On Broadway

Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's melodrama about the doomed conspiracy of three women to regain their control over an engaging leech, well acted by Jason Robards Jr.

The Miracle Worker. An occasionally makeshift, but unforgettable portrayal of Helen Keller's search for insight as a substitute for sight, with remarkable acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft.

The Tenth Man. Stumbling into sentimentality, Playwright Paddy Chayefsky nevertheless sensitively manages to sketch the story of a troubled young couple who employ the superstitions of the past as a help in facing the realities of the present.

Bye Bye Birdie. Rock 'n' rollers of the unsilent generation turn this musical about a pompadoured, gold-jacketed crooner into one of the season's best, least pretentious musicals.

Fiorello! Director George Abbott keeps this affectionate, musical memoir as lively as the comic strips the Little Flower used to read over the radio. West Side Story. Romeo and Juliet in the asphalt jungle. In this bustling revival, the dances by Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins and the score by Leonard Bernstein still add up to the fanciest rumble seen around the sidewalks of New York.

Off Broadway

The Prodigal. Youthful Playwright Jack Richardson turns the Orestes legend into a brilliantly mocking and modern fable.

The Balcony. With acidulous understatement, Playwright Jean Genet divides the world's population into whores and their clients as he tries to prove in this ironic comedy that a house is not only a home, but the whole world.

Little Mary Sunshine. The brightest off-Broadway success since The Threepenny Opera parodies the sugar-glazed operettas of yesteryear's Kerns and Frimls.

BOOKS Best Reading

Memoir of the Bobotes, by Joyce Gary. Written when the future novelist was a young man and still three decades away from literary greatness, this unpretentious and unfinished collection of notes about a half-forgotten Balkan war is nevertheless rich with observed truth about arms and the man.

Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. A great jurist's informal recollections make for a lively, teasing, stimulating source of Americana.

Art and Argyrol, by William Schack. The entertaining biography of Albert Barnes, self-made millionaire and self-made ogre, who bought paintings by the boatload but found his greatest joy in thumbing his nose at the world.

Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. This sprightly chronicle of the madcap Mitford family (one of the six daughters was generally regarded as Hitler's girl; the author herself married a leftist nephew of Winston Churchill) reads like an Evelyn Waugh novel, revealing a class in trouble with history and with itself.

Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. In a too-worshipful biography, the reader finds a character well worth meeting: the aristocrat, daredevil pilot and eloquent writer who was probably the century's first true poet of the air.

Born Free, by Joy Adamson. Even readers who do not dig cats should enjoy this remarkable, engaging account of how the author--rivaling Androcles--managed to turn a lioness into a household tabby.

Homage to Clio, by W. H. Auden. This collection of recent poems is the work of the self-revised, settled Auden, but there are glimpses of the poet's old, dazzling cleverness.

Food for Centaurs, by Robert Graves. The busy author's latest, thoroughly delightful collection of stories, poems and essays proves the urgent need for a Graves-of-the-Month Club.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (3)* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 3. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (2) 4. The Affair, Snow (8) 5. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (5) 6. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (7) 7. The Constant Image, Davenport (4) 8. The Chapman Report, Wallace 9. A Distant Trumpet, Horgan (6) 10. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (9)

NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 4. Born Free, Adamson (3) 5. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (6) 6. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (5) 7. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (7) 8. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips 9. Mr. Citizen, Truman (9) 10. That Certain Something, Francis (10)

*All times E.D.T. *Position on last week's list.

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