The Parent Trap. A story about cute, goldenhaired identical twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying ought to be thoroughly emetic, but thanks to Hayley Mills, who plays both leads, this children's comedy is delightful.
The Guns of Navarone. Director Carl Foreman leaves out no gunpowder cliche in a World War II dash-and-basher, but tells his absurd tale with great skill, and Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn pull off their caper in rousing style.
The Young Savages. The plot, involving Burt Lancaster as an assistant D.A. assigned to prosecute teen-age gangsters, is straight out of Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the camerawork in Manhattan's rat-run slums is cruelly authentic.
La Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's brilliant, flawed examination--part sermon, part satire--of Rome's cafe society.
Eve Wants to Sleep (in Polish). The solemn may see political protest in this wacky knockabout in a Polish nighttown, but most viewers will view it as the goofiest farce since the Keystone Kops.
TELEVISION
Thurs., July 13
The Secret Life of Danny Kaye (CBS, 10-11 p.m.)* A rebroadcast of a brilliant program the TV industry waves aloft when it needs to prove TV's occasional quality. It records the trip Kaye made for UNICEF five years ago to visit the children of the world, in a dozen countries of Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Sat., July 15
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-7 p.m.).
The British Open golf championship, at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, Lancashire. Commentator: Participant Arnold Palmer.
The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas gives his unilateral views on "Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad." Miss Universe Beauty Pageant (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). This year's contest in Miami Beach decides who in the world has the best outer space.
Sun, July 16
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). A short play satirizing totalitarianism, by Polish Writer Slawomir Mrozek.
First produced three years ago in Warsaw, where it received mixed-up reviews.
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.).
Guest: Mohammed Ayub Khan, president of Pakistan.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). La Guardia -- a petal-by-petal re creation of New York City's Little Flower.
Repeat.
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Budd Schulberg's The Legend That Walks like a Man, an inside Hollywood story, with Ernest Borgnine. Repeat.
Tues., July 18
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).
Richard Boone and Kim Stanley in William Faulkner's Tomorrow. Repeat.
THEATER
Straw Hat
Skowhegan, Me., Lakewood Theatre: Under the Yum-Yum Tree with Darren McGavin.
Ogunquit, Me., Playhouse: The Marriage-Go-Round twirls on, this time with Myrna Loy and Claude Dauphin.
Fitchburg, Mass., Lake Whalom Playhouse: Ginger Rogers witching about in Bell, Book and Candle.
Newport, R.I., Playhouse: Rain, weather permitting.
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It and Macbeth continue in rotation.
East Hampton, N.Y., John Drew Theater: A new musical called All Kinds of Giants.
Westbury, N.Y., Music Fair: Julia Meade playing the Pajama Game.
Mountainhome, Pa., Pocono Playhouse: Five Finger Exercise starring Signe Hasso and Dennis King.
New Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: Ann Harding in Two Queens of Love and Beauty, a new play by Bill Hoffman.
Philadelphia, Playhouse in the Park: All the Way Home with Marsha Hunt.
Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: Blue Chips, a new play by John Daniels Jr.
Warren, O., Packard Music Hall: Pal Joey with Andy Williams and Julie Wilson.
Indianapolis, Avondale Playhouse: Margaret Truman in The Time of the Cuckoo.
Traverse City, Mich., Cherry County Playhouse: Laura, starring Gloria Grahame.
Chicago, Melody Top Theater: William Bendix in Take Me Along.
Milwaukee, Fred Miller Theater: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, this time with Peggy Ann Garner.
La Jolla, Calif., Playhouse: John Kerr in Five Finger Exercise.
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Festival: Coriolanus, Henry VII, Love's Labour's Lost, plus Pirates of Penzance by two other bards, Gilbert & Sullivan.
BOOKS
Best Reading
For summer catching-up with the season to date:
A spate of animal books is available for grownups as well as children, including Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell, and A Zoo in My Luggage, by Gerald Durrell, and those who are really taking summer seriously can dust off their copies of Winnie Ille Pu (there is a boom on 50-c-' Latin pocket dictionaries).
It is also a good season for history: The French Revolution, by Georges Per-noud and Sabine Flaissier, The Spanish Civil War, by Hugh Thomas, and Russia and the West, by George Kennan--are all excellent. My Father, Lloyd George is a fine study of Britain's World War I Prime Minister by his son, but generally, autobiography was better served than biography. Frank O'Connor's An Only Child tells of his childhood in Cork slums and is written as gracefully as any book this year. In Nobody Knows My Name, Negro
Author James Baldwin describes the end of his self-imposed European exile and return to the U.S., and discusses some prevailing delusions on the color question.
Theater buffs who find Broadway stale, flat, and unprofitable may discover reasons for their discontent in George Steiner's critical analysis of The Death of Tragedy. Poet Robert Lowell serves the cause of one classic tragedy with his masterful translation of Racine's Phaedra, in accompaniment with a lively version of Beaumarchais's Marriage of Figaro, by Jacques Barzun.
Humor has not fared well. Two usually reliable sources, James Thurber and Peter De Vries, both turned out disappointing books. The new P. G. Wodehouse, The Ice in the Bedroom, will delight his claque. The reader who wants real wit may prefer G. B. Shaw's Letters to a Young Actress, in which the crotchety master tried without success to turn out a real-life Galatea from unpromising material.
The best novel comes from a reliable master of suspense and self-searching, Graham Greene. His brilliant book, A Burnt-Out Case, is one of an ever increasing number of fine novels focusing on Africa. Others: The Brothers M, by Tom Stacey; At Fever Pitch, by David Caute; and Shadows in the Grass, in which Isak Dinesen looks back on her pioneer life in the Kenya bush. Two fine first novels come, as usual, from the South: The Movie-Goer, by Walker Percy, and The Morning and the Evening, by Joan Williams. Robert McLaughlin provides an absorbing study of a troubled Middle Eastern country, The Walls of Heaven.
There are at least three good adventure books, which cover a wide range: Fate Is the Hunter, by Ernest Gann, on flying; The White Nile, by Alan Moorehead, on exploring the upper Nile; and Abandoned, by A. L. Todd, about an early trip to the perilous Arctic.
Best Sellers ( previously included in TIME'S choice of Best Reading)
FICTION
1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)*
2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2)
3. Mila 18, Uris (3) 4. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (6)
5. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (7)
6. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor
7. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (4)
8. The Winter of Our Discontent Steinbeck
9. Hawaii, Michener (5)
10. Advise and Consent, Drury
NONFICTION
1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)
2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2)
3. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4)
4. The New English Bible (3)
5. Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (5)
6. Sketches from Life, Acheson (7)
7. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Hauser (8)
8. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (6)
9. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann 10. Firsthand Report, Adams (9)
10. Firsthand Report, Adams (9)
* All times E.D.T.
*Position on last week's list.
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