CINEMA

Ocean's 11. Frank Sinatra's off-screen clansters (Dean Martin, Peter Lawford Sammy Davis Jr. et al), as their usual tough-talking, gamboling selves, ham up a Las Vegas robbery with enough foolishness to make it look like fun.

Sons and Lovers. D. H. Lawrence's fine novel about a young artist's fight to break free of the doting women in his life makes an equally exceptional movie in the expert hands of Director Jack Cardiff and Stars Wendy Hiller, Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard.

Elmer Gantry. Burt Lancaster brings Sinclair Lewis' 1927 hero to exuberant lite in Hollywood's gaudy, graphic look at tent-show religion.

Bells Are Ringing. The combined skills of Comedienne Judy Holliday and Director Vincente Minnelli manage to jog and jazz a middling book and some forgettable tunes into one of the year's liveliest musicals

The Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder's comedy about the rise of an organizational rogue (Jack Lemmon) who lends his apartment to his trysting bosses is both deftly funny and occasionally--ironically--solemn.

TELEVISION

Wed., Aug. 31

The 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome (CBS). A half-hour wrap-up will be broadcast some time between 11 n m and 12 midnight.*

Thurs., Sept. 1

Olympic Games (CBS, 7:30-8 pm) Followed by the usual synopsis some time between 11 p.m. and 12 midnight

Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 pm) Excerpts from the films of Cowboy William S. Hart, including the famous land-rush sequence from Tumbleweeds.

Fri., Sept. 2

Olympic Games (CBS, 8:30-9 pm) Recap follows between 11 p.m. and 12 midnight.

Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.) Charles Collingwood calls on Eddie Albert and Theatre Guild Director Lawrence Langner.

Sat., Sept. 3

Olympic Games (CBS, 1-2:15 p.m. and 8:30-9 p.m.). Plus summary some time between 11 p.m. and 12 midnight

Gunsmoke (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m ) In the season's premiere, Matt Dillon shoots his way into his sixth year on TV.

Sun., Sept. 4

Olympic Games (CBS, 1-2 p.m.) Plus recap some time between 11:15 pm and 12 midnight.

Mon., Sept. 5

The Jan Murray Show (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). A new word game, carefully unrigged, begins under the guidance of Comedian Jan Murray.

Olympic Games (CBS, 5-6 p.m.) Plus summary some time between ll pm and 12 midnight.

Tues., Sept. 6

Miss America Parade (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). CBS News studies the imported scenery in Atlantic City.

Olympic Games (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Plus summary some time between ll pm and 12 midnight.

THEATER

On Broadway

New titles are going up on Broadway billboards, but the new shows are still weeks away. Until they arrive, last season's survivors will have to serve. Among the best are Bye Bye Birdie, which takes some of the curl out of a rock-'n'-roll idol's pompadour; Fiorello!, a sunny salute to New York City's late Mayor La Guardia; and West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet in jazz time. Among the straight dramas still pulling customers from the hot pavements are Toys in the Attic, in which Lillian Hellman pits poor Jason

Robards Jr. against three women two old maid sisters and a wife--who need him to need them; The Tenth Man, Alchemist Paddy Chayefsky's murky but potent mixture of out-of-date mysticism and up-to-date neurosis; The Miracle Worker, a tour de force of acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft as the young Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan; and The Best Man, Gore Vidal's cutting caricature of coldblooded politics.

Off Broadway

Still fresh and unwilted by the heat are Little Mary Sunshine, a crisp, straight-faced spoof of the Grand Old Operettas; The Balcony, Jean Genet's surrealist universe ensconced in a brothel; The Connection, a pad full of Pirandelloish characters waiting, not for Godot, but the heroin fix; and a neat double dose of disenchantment-Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a defeated, Proust-like writer plays back his own past, on the same bill with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, which stars a lonely beatnik trying to communicate with an awful square. Up in Central Park: The Taming of the Shrew.

Straw Hat

Stockbridge, Mass., Berkshire Playhouse: Dear Miss Phoebe, a musical play adapted from James M. Barrie's Quality

Street.

Stratford, Conn.: Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and Antony and Cleopatra with Robert Ryan and Katharine Hepburn among the featured players.

Westport, Conn., Country Playhouse-Zachary Scott stars in a pre-Broadway production of The Captain and the Kings

East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: Rosemary Harris stars, on alternate nights, in The Sea Gull, Affairs of Anatol, Man and Superman.

Fishkill, N.Y., Cecilwood Theater: Playwright Lonny Chapman tackles a high school football coach and his rebellious young brother in his play, Cry of the Raindrop, with Pat Hingle.

Grand Ledge, Mich., Playhouse: Springtime for Henry, with ageless Edward Everett Horton.

Traverse City, Mich., Cherry County Playhouse: Eddie Bracken stars in Broadway's 1959 comedy, The Golden Fleecing

Ashland, Ore.: Duchess of Malfi and Shakespeare in rotation with Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Richard II and The Taming of the Shrew.

Stratford, Ont.: Romeo and Juliet, King John and Midsummer Night's Dream with a repertory company starring Julie Harris and Christopher Plummer.

BOOKS Best Reading

Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. A friend's excellent biography of the late Albert Lasker, the Madison Avenue pioneer who invented "That School Girl Complexion," dominated U.S. advertising, and cut the pattern for its grey-flannel suit

Decision at Trafalgar, by Dudley Pope. The greatest battle of the age of sail, recreated by a sure hand, includes a 'fine portrait of Lord Nelson.

The Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A searching, scandalizing novel of Jesus by the late brilliant Greek poet-novelist-philosopher, who looked for God in man's lusting, tormented soul.

The Luck of Ginger Coffey, by Brian Moore. The latest hero of wry, Belfast-born Canadian Novelist Moore is a Dublin-born, status-seeking New Canadian immigrant, whose life hovers between sad farce and sorry truth.

The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. A previously untranslated 1927 satire of revolutionary Russia by the man who is now Communism's No. 1 journalistic Pooh-Bah. This kosher Candide reincarnates the nonhero of Jewish folklore: Peter Schlemiel, the enemy of commissar and cop.

The Ballad of Peckham Rye, by Muriel Spark. Peckham Rye is a London suburb where the people are too average to sin grandly but not too average to sin. The result is often hilarious.

Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough. Novelist Hough is a New England editor who skillfully explores the power and glory of small-town journalism.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*

2. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (2)

3. Hawaii, Michener (3)

4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (4) 5. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (7)

6. Water of Life, Robinson (5)

7. The View from the Fortieth Floor White (6)

8. The Affair, Snow

9. Before You Go, Weidman 10. Diamond Head, Oilman (10)

NONFICTION

1. Born Free, Adamson (1)

2. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas (3)

3. The Conscience of a Conservative, Gold water (4)

4. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (5)

5. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (7)

6. May This House Be Safe from Tigers King (2)

7. The Good Years, Lord (9)

8. Enjoy, Enjoy! Golden (8)

9. I Kid You Not, Paar (6) 10. The Operators, Gibney

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

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