CINEMA
Sunrise at Campobello. As in his stage version, Dore Schary worships rather than evaluates Franklin Roosevelt during the period when he conquers polio, setting the mold for the President-to-be. But for all this, the film offers rich, commercial entertainment, ranging from heroic drama to soap opera to political pleading.
The Entertainer. In a seedy music-hall performer, England's Angry Playwright-Scenarist John Osborne has a farfetched but arresting symbol of all that is wrong with England. But the vigor of Osborne's complaint and, above all, Laurence Olivier's relentless grotesqueries as the fatuous vaudevillian provide fascination on the screen.
The World of Apu. The third, last and most striking section in the trilogy of Indian life by Satyajit Ray brings its hero to marriage and deeper tragedy than either Father Panchali or Aparajito, the first two parts, making it the moving culmination of a naturalistic film masterpiece.
Let's Make Love. A trumped-up plot to bring Marilyn Monroe and France's rugged, gaunt-faced Yves Montand together takes the long way around to Marilyn's arms, since Montand is an unlikely billionaire who wants to be loved for himself alone. The game is forced but fun.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's careful insights into the problems of an Oklahoma harness salesman and his troubled family are well illuminated in the screen version, with Robert Preston setting the acting pace though occasionally running ahead of Inge's harness.
TELEVISION
Tues., Oct. 11
CBS Reports (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).* The Year of the Polaris tells the story of the successful development of the U.S.'s submarine-launched ballistic missile.
The Donald O'Connor Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A song-and-dance special, with O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor. Color.
Wed., Oct. 12
Peter Loves Mary (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). First of a new series in which Peter " Lind Hayes and Mary Healy more or less play themselves--a young married couple who divide their time between show-business careers and family life.
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Biography of Adolf Eichmann.
Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A dramatic series about cops in New York, with regular guest stars. Eli Wallach is one of the first.
Thurs., Oct. 13
Nixon-Kennedy Debate (NBC, CBS and ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Third in the series. This time Nixon is in Los Angeles and Kennedy is in New York, and the argument goes back and forth across a split screen.
The Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Robert Stack begins his second year as Government Agent Eliot Ness, battling with the oldtime Chicago mob in one of TV's most successful shows.
Closeup! (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Bell & Howell Co.'s excellent documentary series now turns to Haiti, the French-speaking Caribbean nation uncomfortably situated between Castro's Cuba and Trujillo's Dominican Republic.
Fri., Oct. 14
Purex Special for Women (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Premiere of a seven-part series, the first a study of sexual frigidity in the U.S.
Harridan & Son (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Pat O'Brien in a new series about a New York lawyer and his son.
The Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Patrice Munsel, Janet Blair, Gretchen Wyler, Earl Wrightson, presenting music by Vincent Youmans.
Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Top news story of the week.
Sat., Oct. 15
N.C.A.A. Football Game (ABC, afternoon). Depending on where you live, it is the Air Force Academy v. Navy, Arkansas at Texas, or Wisconsin at Iowa.
The Roaring Twenties (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A new series about two reporters on a New York tabloid, whose lives are entwined with events of the '20s, such as the Dempsey-Firpo fight, which is the background for the first episode.
The Campaign and the Candidates (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Chet Huntley and David Brinkley interview the Nixons.
Sun., Oct. 16
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Senator Kennedy.
National Automobile Show (CBS, 6-7 p.m.). The 1961 models of all makers.
See America with Ed Sullivan (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). This year Stony Ed will be traveling about, visiting U.S. cities and entertainers associated with them. First stop is San Francisco, with Johnny Mathis, Peggy Lee, Mort Sahl, Dave Brubeck, Dorothy Kirsten, the Limeliters.
The Jack Benny Program (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Jack's wife Mary Livingstone, retired from the show for three years, comes back as a guest.
THEATER
As the Broadway season gains momentum, Irma La Douce, a musical that is French to its very bedposts, provides a tingling mixture of sweetness and bite. As a prostitute who can make iniquity seem perfectly charming, Britain's Elizabeth Seal suggests that she really can do no wrong, despite Irma's vocation. Brendan Behan's The Hostage, which fills its characters with the wild humors of its bigger-than-life playwright, runs an exhilarating gamut from bawdiness and irreverence to keening Irish lyricism. The World of Carl Sandburg, capably peopled by Bette Davis and Leif Ericson, is a slightly patronizing domain at times, but one studded with the virtues of democratic faith.
Off Broadway, at the Phoenix, Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore keeps its sails at full tilt under the expert seamanship of Director Tyrone Guthrie. Still holding their own on Broadway against the tide of new shows are several holdovers, notably The Miracle Worker, Toys in the Attic, Bye Bye Birdie.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Child Buyer, by John Mersey. A first-rate satire, in the form of hearings before a state senate committee, of national vagaries in education and superpatriotism.
Rome for Ourselves, by Aubrey Menen. A fond, mocking assessment of Rome, ancient and modern, suggesting that even in imperial days, Romans were less interested in glory than in la dolce vita.
The Worlds of Chippy Patterson, by Arthur H. Lewis. A readable biography of the flamboyant Main Line lawyer who preferred broads to ladies, penniless--and crooked--clients to rich corporations.
The Trial Begins, by Abram Tertz. Pseudonymously signed and smuggled from Russia, this remarkable work of socialist surrealism bitterly mocks the monolithic state, suggesting among other things that under the Communist icecap, the Russian spirit still lives.
Victory in the Pacific, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The 14th and last book of narrative (a technical volume is to follow) in the author's masterly history of World War II naval operations.
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, by Anthony Powell. A witty novel about Britain in the thirties and that period's curious miscegenation between Society and Art.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Since it was written in 1936, this prose account of sharecroppers' lives, set down with the dark rage of a poet, has become a classic.
The Politics of Upheaval, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. In the third volume of his history, the author follows skillfully--and sometimes too admiringly--as the New Deal loses its first momentum and sets out in a different direction.
The Black Book, by Lawrence Durrell. A school piece by the author of the Alexandria novels, written when he was 24, and full of murk, gloom, glittering words and the beans of youth.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) *
2. Hawaii, Michener (2)
3. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (3)
4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (5)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (6)
6. The Last Temptation of Christ, Kazantzakis (7)
7. Diamond Head, Oilman
8. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (4)
9. Mistress of Mellyn, Holt 10. The House of Five Talents,
Auchincloss
NONFICTION
1. Born Free, Adamson (1)
2. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas (2)
3. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (3)
4. Taken at the Flood, Gunther (10)
5. Enjoy, Enjoy! Golden (6)
6. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (8)
7. The Liberal Hour, Galbraith
8. The Waste Makers, Packard (5)
9. The Politics of Upheaval, Schlesinger
10. The Good Years, Lord (4)
*All times E.D.T.
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