CINEMA

West Side Story. Broadway's long-running choreoperetta, despite some sick-sick-sick pseudo sociology, makes a big, fast, exciting cinemusical.

Loss of Innocence. The mood and melodrama of bittersweet 16 are evoked with irony and charm in this British adaptation of Rumer Godden's thriller of sensibility, The Greengage Summer.

Breakfast at Tiffany's. Holly Golightly, a prominent expense accountess of Manhattan's lower mobility, came off Truman Capote's pages as a sextravert; she comes off the screen, in Audrey Hepburn's performance, as a sintrovert; but the film is fairly funny anyway.

Macario. A gifted Mexican director and cameraman make a touching ceremony out of B. Traven's profound little fable of the woodcutter who sups with Death.

The Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon.

The Mark. A serious and compassionate examination of an uncomfortably sensational theme: the rehabilitation of a man convicted of molesting a small girl.

The Man Who Wagged His Tail. Peter Ustinov plays the villain, and a four-footed Italian actor named Caligola plays Peter Ustinov in this comic allegory about a Brooklyn slumlord who is magically changed into a dog.

The Devil's Eye. Sweden's Director Ingmar Bergman brings Don Juan up from Hell on a mission of seduction, and an average 20th century girl sends him back more melancholy than ever for having learned what love is.

[TELEVISION

Wed., Oct. 25

The Bob Newhart Show (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.).* Sometimes Newhart's writers have trouble catching the subtle touch of the master of American understatement, but when they do, it is some of the best comedy on TV. Color

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Drama about refugees trying to escape from East Berlin.

David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Tonight's topics: Cambodia, and civil defense in the Soviet Union.

Fri., Oct. 27

Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Walter Cronkite discussing the major news event of the week.

Sat., Oct. 28

NCAA Football (ABC, from 3:15). Ohio State v. Wisconsin, at Madison.

Sun., Oct. 29

Adlai Stevenson Reports (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). Guest: Burma's U Thant.

Wisdom (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Conversation with Astronomer Harlow Shapley.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The first of this excellent program's fall shows deals with "Hungary Today"--filmed in Hungary and including interviews with farmers, a journalist, a young Communist et al.

Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Chairman Glenn Seaborg of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

The World of Bob Hope (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A retracing of the comedian's career and the evolution of U.S. humor that it reflects.

The Power and the Glory (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The most highly anticipated event of the fall, this two-hour version of Graham Greene's story stars Laurence Olivier and features Julie Harris, Roddy McDowall, Frank Conroy, Keenan Wynn, Patty Duke and Mildred Dunnock.

Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A TV biography of Broadway's Florenz Ziegfeld, with Joan Crawford narrating.

Mon., Oct. 30

Ben Casey (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). TV's larger-than-life neurosurgeon picks the brain of an ailing industrial czar who has entered the hospital under a phony name because he fears his company's stock will drop if investors hear that the great man is shaky.

THEATER

On Broadway

The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. In a junk-filled London room, two odd brothers and a tramp, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, illuminate the perennial questions of man's isolation from, his need for, and his quirky rejection of, his fellow man.

Milk and Honey adds a pioneering Israeli tempo to the musicomedy roster. Comedienne Molly Picon and Songsters Robert Weede and Mimi Benzell star with distinction when they are not bogged down in soap operatics.

From the Second City. Eight saucy Chicagoans apply intellectual hotfoots to beatniks, Great Bookworms, and the movies of Ingmar Bergman. More often than not, this informal revue is a mirthquake.

Among the holdovers from the past season, Mary, Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr. In Camelot, a new King Arthur (William Squire) presides over the Round Table. Irma La Douce is still the most delectable way to tour the Parisian underworld. Broadway's Carnival! yields nothing to its Hollywood model Lili in poignance and charm--and there is always the grande dame of Manhattan's musicals, My Fair Lady.

Off Broadway

Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. A happy tour de farce, written in 1910, in which G.B.S. changes his ideas every quarter hour, and the ideas seem scarcely older, even after a half century.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Coming Fury, by Bruce Catton. There is still gold in the hallowed ground, and the author clearly has made another strike with this able, popular history of the causes and early struggles of the Civil War.

Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author piles up details with the enthusiasm of a squirrel in autumn and almost succeeds in burying a fascinating biography of the scourge of Babbittry, who, throughout his years of self-exile, never really left Gopher Prairie.

A New Life, by Bernard Malamud. Without the allegorical overtones of the author's previous books (The Natural, The Assistant), this novel of an Eastern intellectual's losing battle with the muscular positivism of a Western land college sometimes trips on its own realism, is nevertheless notable for its tender, Chekhovian quality.

The Adams Papers, edited by L. H. Butterfield. In the first four volumes of a projected 100-volume collection of memorabilia from the U.S.'s most noted diplomatic family, the nation's second President delivers forceful opinions on matters ranging from French jokes (shameful) to British agriculture (U.S. manure is better).

The Children of Sanchez, by Oscar Lewis. A powerful and moving documentary, mostly tape-recorded, in which each of five members of a Mexico City slum family tells of his fight for self-respect and love.

Selected Tales, by Nikolai Leskov. The brilliance of this 19th century Russian author is still to be discovered by most Western readers; this collection shows him to be a taleteller of eloquence and subtle power.

Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame. A novel about life in a mental institution written with skill and sympathy.

Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The guru of The New Yorker abstracts the two stories from his cycle-in-progress on the Glass family; the result is a masterly double novella, strongly flavored with both eccentricity and genius, of a girl's brush with religious obsession.

Best Sellers ( SQRT previously included in TIME'S choice of Best Reading)

FICTION 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)*

SQRT 2. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (2)

SQRT 3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (3)

4. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (4)

5. Mila 18, Uris (7)

6. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (5)

7. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (9)

8. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (8)

9. Clock Without Hands, McCullers (6)

10. The Blue of Capricorn, Burdick

NONFICTION

1. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (1)

SQRT 2. The Making of the President 1960, White (2)

SQRT 3. The Rise and FaH of the Third Reich, Shirer (3)

4. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (4)

5. Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (6)

SQRT 6. The New English Bible (7)

SQRT 7. The Age of Reason Begins, Will and Ariel Durant (5)

SQRT 8. Kidnap, Waller

SQRT 9. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan

10. The Sheppard Murder Case, Holmes (8)

*All times E.D.T. through Oct. 28; E.S.T. thereafter.

*Position on last week's list.

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