Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. A brilliant newcomer, Albert Finney, in a fine British film: a loud, hilarious belch of protest from Britain's working class.
A Raisin in the Sun. A rhetorical but affecting film translation of Lorraine Hansberry's play about Negro life in a Northern ghetto.
Shadows. John Cassavetes' improvised film about Negroes, whites and others in Manhattan is a flawed but significant piece of folk art.
Love and the Frenchwoman (in French). The Old Wave--sophisticated samplings of sex--returns with a cinemanthology of the seven ages of woman.
The Hoodlum Priest. A crude but telling Christian cops-and-robbers story that ends with the robber condemned to the gas chamber, and guilt assigned to all.
The Absent-Minded Professor. Walt Disney, who went delightfully to the dogs with 101 Dalmatians, scores again with a wacky science-fiction farce about Neddie the Nut and his fabulous flubber.
Breathless (in French). A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk.
The League of Gentlemen. Ex-Colonel Jack Hawkins leads a proper platoon of the Queen's Own Down-and-Outers against the outmanned forces of law and order.
Question 7. A quietly frightening portrayal of Christianity under Communism.
Other notable current movies: Ballad of a Soldier, Make Mine Mink, Circle of Deception.
TELEVISION
Thurs., April 6
Tennessee Ernie Ford (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.).* Guest: Charles Laughton.
Face the Nation (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Topic: "Should Private and Parochial Schools Receive Federal Aid?"
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Lon Chaney Sr. stars in the 1923 film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Sun., April 9
The Eagle Stirred (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). World premiere of a dramatic oratorio that seeks modern meaning in the Biblical Exodus. Composed by Ezra Laderman.
New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert (CBS, 3-4 p.m.). "Folk Music in the Concert Hall," Leonard Bernstein conducting.
Masters Golf Tournament (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). Arnold Palmer will seek his third Masters championship.
Trial of Adolf Eichmann (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.) and Israel and Eichmann (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.). On-the-scene reports from Israel, where the trial begins April 11.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Sweden: Trouble in Paradise." First of a two-part report.
Shirley Temple Show (NBC, 7-8 p.m.). Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans, starring Imogene Coca as governess to a dozen moppets.
Winston Churchill--The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Chapter 17, "The Die Is Cast": final preparations for Dday.
Tues., April 11
J.F.K. Report #2 (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A documentary look at the Administration's first 82 days.
THEATER
On Broadway
Big Fish, Little Fish. Despite a good many faults, this story of a minor editor who is the life force for a group of skimpy has-beens and pallid never-weres is well worth seeing.
Mary, Mary. A thoroughly engaging comedy by Jean Kerr, author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, who offers an obvious marriage-divorce plot, but has decorated it with splendid wit.
Come Blow Your Horn. Some fresh and funny lines come in a Jewish family battle.
Irma La Douce. England's Elizabeth Seal as a tender tart.
Advise and Consent. Allen Drury's best-selling novel about Washington makes an engrossing political melodrama. While somewhat superficial and oversimplified, at least it treats the theatrically neglected subject of power without cant.
Rhinoceros. Eugene lonesco's limited but exhilarating allegory about the pressure of conformity.
Camelot. Although less than the sum of its attractive parts, the Lerner and Loewe musical does provide dazzling sets, engaging music and Richard Burton.
All the Way Home. The poignant contrast of childhood and death makes for one of the season's best plays.
A Taste of Honey. An episodic but effective English look at love and humor precariously alive in a shabby world.
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Probably the funniest people on Broadway.
Off Broadway
Among the better evenings: Call Me By My Rightful Name, an interracial-triangle drama; The Connection, Jack Gelber's graphic re-creation of a junkie's pad; The American Dream, Edward Albee's surrealistic situation comedy; The Zoo Story, Albee's famed mono a mono between Natural and Ivy League man, running on a double bill with Samuel Beckett's lucid monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; Hedda Gabler, another excellent production in the Fourth Street Theater's Ibsen series; The Balcony, French Playwright Jean Genet's superb argument that the world is a mammoth cat house.
| BOOKS
Best Reading
An Only Child, by Frank O'Connor. Father was broody and given to drink, Mother was innocent and fey, and forded the gutter of a Cork slum unsullied. Frank O'Connor, born Michael O'Donovan, was his mother's child, and he has written of his pitiable boyhood not as a foul autopsy on his dead life but as a gay ballad at his own wake.
The S-Man, by Mark Caine. In the diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, this British book aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success.
Odyssey of the Self-Centered Self, by Robert Elliot Fitch. The self-pitier commands stage center in modern fiction, drama and even life, argues the author, the irony being that self is also the false god the self-pitier worships. The breast beaters have been beaten before by better critics but rarely with such all-inclusive gusto.
Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell. More resourceful than most current fictional heroes, Mijbil the Otter could turn on a water tap, unzip a zipper and chew razor blades. As a pet, he was hilarious and heartwarming, and so is the book Author Maxwell has fashioned about him.
Seven Plays, by Bertolt Brecht. A splendid sampling from the complex and remarkable German playwright whose works are posthumously sweeping the world's stages.
A Burnt-Out Case, by Graham Greene. The spiritual deformity of the desiccated soul--symbolized by the ultimate horror of man's physical being, leprosy--is the central theme of Greene's latest and greatest novel.
The Gouffe Case, by Joachim Maass. The clip-clop of hansoms and the sighs of lovelorn dandies provide mood music for this period murder tale.
The Watchman, by Davis Grubb. A marrow-chilling tale that rages against man's cruelty and sings the praises of physical love.
Midcentury, by John Dos Passos. This novel is a kind of documentary film of the times, done with all the skill, though less of the startling freshness that marked the author's famed U.S.A.
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, by Albert Camus. Sometimes called "the conscience of the age," the late great Frenchman lives up to that title in these lucid and luminous essays.
In Pursuit of the English, by Doris Lessing. Jaunty candid-camera shots of London's lower depths.
If Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Heinrich Schirmbeck. With the verve of early Huxley, the novelist asks if science is the mote in the eye of 20th century man.
Best Sellers
( SQRT previously included in TIME'S choice of Best Reading)
FICTION
1. Hawaii, Michener (1)*
2. Advise and Consent, Drury (2)
SQRT 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (3)
SQRT 4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5)
SQRT 5. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (4)
6. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone
SQRT 7. Midcentury, Dos Passos
SQRT 8. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (7)
9. China Court, Godden (9)
SQRT 10. Winnie Ille Pu, Milne (6)
NONFICTION
SQRT 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)
SQRT 2. The New English Bible (5)
3. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (2)
4. Who Killed Society? Amory (3)
SQRT 5. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4)
6. The Waste Makers, Packard (8)
SQRT 7. Skyline, Fowler (6)
8. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (9)
9. The Frog Pond, Maclver
10. Stay Young and Vital, Cummings
* All times E.S.T.
*Position on last week's list.
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