Psycho. Perhaps overly gruesome, and directed with an unusually heavy hand, this Hitchcock thriller nevertheless adds up to an expertly gothic nightmare.
The Story of Ruth. The Old Testament's four brief chapters are souped up, padded out, and somehow made into a movie that is commendably unepic.
Man in a Cocked Hat. Benumbingly British Comic Terry-Thomas comes uproariously into his own as an English foreign service officer who, determinedly misassisted by Peter Sellers, hurls a barrage of satire on the subject of statecraft.
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). The acknowledged New Wave masterpiece plunges two lovers into the charred acres of bombed Hiroshima, reminds the world that love and life go on even in the nightmare of death.
I'm All Right, Jack. Looking like a fanatical potato, ubiquitous Peter Sellers plays a union shop steward, who dreams of a worker's paradise, with enormous sadness and brilliant humor.
The Apartment. Producer-Director Billy (Some Like It Hot) Wilder's pointed tale of a junior executive (Jack Lemmon) who permits his licentious bosses to use his Manhattan pad like a midtown motel. With Shirley MacLaine.
Bells Are Ringing. Judy Holliday's effervescent comic talents accomplish what Hollywood's $3,000,000 alone could not --they turn this mediocre musical into a solid success.
Dreams. Director Ingmar Bergman's bright satire pits cunning, confident women against despondent, demoralized men; the outcome is hardly surprising.
TELEVISION ,
Wed., July 13
Today (NBC, 7-9 a.m.). *Dave Garroway is in Los Angeles covering the Democratic Convention, joined by such assorted pundits as Martin Agronsky and Kukla and Ollie. Film clips of highlights from the floor.
All-Star Baseball Game (NBC, 12:45 p.m.). From Yankee Stadium. Color.
Democratic National Convention (CBS, NBC and ABC from 6:00 p.m.). /- Nominating speeches. By counting every last electrician, each network can claim that its own delegation to Los Angeles, between 300 and 350 strong, outnumbers the delegation from any state in the union. Led by Chet Huntley and Dave Brinkley, the NBC forces are pledged to use all sorts of cameras, right down to hand-held "creepie-peepies." Battling them every step of the way for nomination as the TViewers' choice will be the CBS group led by Walter Cronkite and Ed Murrow, and the ABC unit under John Daly.
Thurs., July 14
Today (NBC, 7-9 a.m.). The owlish Garroway continues to watch over the Democrats.
Democratic National Convention (CBS and NBC, from 6 p.m., ABC from 8 p.m.). Barring a stalemate in presidential balloting, nominating speeches and balloting for vice-presidential nominee.
Fri., July 15
Today (NBC, 7-9 a.m.).
Democratic National Convention (NBC from 9 p.m., CBS and ABC from 10 p.m.). Acceptance speeches by presidential and vice-presidential nominees.
Sat., July 16
College News Conference (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Guest: Nelson A. Rockefeller.
Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). The panel discusses "The Christian's Role in Integration."
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The story of radar. Repeat.
THEATER
On Broadway
Bye Bye Birdie. Director Gower Champion's fresh and frantic musical about an Elvis-type crooner (Dick Gautier) swings through the evening like a pendulum gone wild.
Fiorello! The early, whirly career of New York's colorful Mayor La Guardia (Tom Bosley) makes delightful musical theater.
The Miracle Worker. Memorable acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft transforms a somewhat disorganized script into a touching, eloquent chronicle of Helen Keller's childish groping for courage and skill to face a sightless life.
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 ever seen around the sidewalks of New York.
The Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky's sensitive allegory explores ancient Jewish mysticism for guidance in solving the spiritual problem of a highly modern couple.
Toys in the Attic. Three women struggle to keep their lap dog--an engaging but spineless ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.) --whose sudden change of fortune gives him strength to slip the leash.
Off Broadway
Henry V. A touch of Harry in the night, provided by Joseph Papp's fine, open-air production in Manhattan's Central Park.
The Prodigal. Playwright Jack Richardson boldly appropriates the grim material of Greek tragedy, skillfully turns Orestes into a mocking modern man.
The Balcony. The newest offering of France's Jean Genet depicts brothel-frequenting milquetoasts who bizarrely take over the state, embody in the new regime their orgy-spawned delusions of grandeur.
Little Mary Sunshine. The most successful off-Broadway musical in years is a Western-accented parody of vintage operetta, a kind of Die Rockymaus telling Tales of the Boulder Woods.
The Connection. Jack Gelber's highly charged beatodrama about junkies in their pad acquires faint religious overtones as the characters wait for a godlike figure called the Big Connection.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Thomas Wolfe, by Elizabeth Nowell. The first full-length biography of the great white whale of modern U.S. fiction. Au thor Nowell spares the harpoon of criticism, and her book is awash with Wolfean rhetoric.
Dictionary of American Slang, compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. Not always as hip as it might be, this is still a handy compendium of berserk English, from Abe's cabe to zooly.
Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence, by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. U.S. poetry's tart sage speaks in the pages of a kind of family album of letters, poems, conversations and even Christmas cards.
Merry Monarch, by Hesketh Pearson. Biographer Pearson insists that, for all his debauchery, Madcap Monarch Charles II was also the witty, wily architect of a prosperous England.
Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. A perky, semi-autobiographical study of Britain's Mitford sisters, who, like a sextet of disenchanted princesses, haunted the '30s by marrying various men and ideologies.
Memoir of the Bobotes, by Joyce Gary. Where are the little Balkan wars of yesteryear? Here is one preserved in amber when the late great novelist and the century were young.
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, tape-recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phil lips. The law's happiest hot dog sizzles with lively recollections of fellow greats on the American scene.
Art and Argyrol, by William Shack. An entertaining account of the maverick millionaire who hated stuffed noses and shirts, delighted in being the one-man audience of a great art collection.
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. Modern flight's literary Daedalus soars again, though the hot, worshipful prose tends to melt this biography in mid-journey.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Advise and Consent, Drury (2)*
2. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (1)
3. Hawaii, Michener (3)
4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (5)
5. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (7)
6. The Affair, Snow (4)
7. The Constant Image, Davenport (6)
8. A Distant Trumpet, Horgan (10)
9. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (9)
10. The Inspector, De Hartog
NONFICTION 1. Born Free, Adamson (2)
2. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1)
3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4)
4. I Kid You Not, Paar (3)
5. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (7)
6. The Conscience of a Conservative, Goldwater
7. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (5)
8. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (8)
9. Mr. Citizen, Truman (6)
10. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (10)
* All times E.D.T.
/- On any night that recess is declared early, regularly scheduled programs will be resumed.
* Position on last week's list.
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