The Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker's socialist shocker clatters, boils and roars its way through a day in the help's half of a big London restaurant. As dialectic it may be flimsy, but as theater it is a feast.

Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.

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

Loss of Innocence. A careful adaptation of Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer evokes with irony and passion all the charm of a young girl's growing up.

Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignee expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with grace and fluent wit.

Macario. The black-and-white magic of the motion-picture camera is artfully employed in this Mexican adaptation of B. Traven's profound little fable about the woodcutter who sups with Death.

The Hustler. Director Robert Rossen racks up an impressive total score in this tale of a young pool paladin (Paul Newman) who learns that character, meaning Old Champ Gleason, is more important than talent.

TELEVISION

Wed., Nov. 8

The Bob Newhart Show (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.).* One of the comic masters of American understatement. Color.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Dramatized study of phony fund raisers who annually bilk the U.S. public out of millions of dollars.

David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). This installment of Brinkmanship deals with Russian spies and children's toys. Color.

Fri., Nov. 10

International Showtime (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The famed Circus Krone of Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Ray Bolger, Dolores Gray, Martha Wright, Howard Keel, Helen Gallagher and "Music of Richard Rodgers." Color.

Sat., Nov. 11

Update (NBC, noon to 12:30 p.m.). Robert Abernethy's news program for teenagers.

Sun., Nov. 12

Adlai Stevenson Reports (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). Guest: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). First of two programs on guerrilla warfare, as taught by the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C., and on Okinawa.

The Jack Benny Program (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Guests: James Stewart and wife.

Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Harpo Marx and "The Wonderful World of Toys."

Tues., Nov. 14

Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Dramatization of the everyday life of the average, run-of-the-mill astronaut.

THEATER

On Broadway

An Evening with Yves Montand flows as naturally and attractively through the singer's Paris as the Seine. Montand has a bedroom voice, but he can also mimic, clown, and act with a barometric sensitivity of mood.

Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott, marks the Broadway spot where a superior mystery thriller may be found. In the course of a suspenseful evening, Playwright Knott (Dial "M" for Murder) shows that it takes almost as much skill to write the perfect crime as to commit it.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a bright musicomedy spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mount Rushmore's stone faces.

A Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, artfully blends bedroom farce and murder mystery. Julie Harris brings her gamin charm to the role of a chambermaid who wakes up in beds she never made.

From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik boy.

The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. One of England's most gifted young playwrights plants two brothers and a scurvy, aging tramp in a junk-cluttered room, where they become entwined in an ambiguous relationship of spite, pride, dependence and rejection that richly epitomizes the wayward condition of man.

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 musicals, My Fair Lady.

Off Broadway

Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. A jam session of ideas recorded by that master improviser, G.B.S., back in 1910. With a knowledgeable band of actors handling the lines, the bounce is still there.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Tell Me a Riddle, by Tillie Olsen. In these four short stories, the author writes with skill and compassionate knowledge of the radicals and working stiffs who fought the battles of U.S. labor when labor was still a movement.

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller. Though it is not always under the writer's full control, this apocalyptic burlesque of war (World, II, European Theater) is written with brilliance and echoes with mad laughter.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. Well worth the time of Johnson fans, this full-length biography of the lexicographer was written four years before Boswell's, by a man who knew him considerably longer. The book became a victim of literary feuding, and this is the first printing since the 1780s.

The Coming Fury, by Bruce Catton. There is still gold in the hallowed ground, and the author has clearly 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 provides a fascinating but at times over-detailed biography of the satirist who turned U.S. Babbitts against Babbittry.

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 Children of Sanchez, by Oscar Lewis. An extraordinary 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.

Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. Two novellas by the U.S.'s most gifted short-storyist, printed two years apart in The New Yorker, gain strength from union in hard covers. The result, despite a mid-stream change in style, is a masterly, glowing work about a girl's brush with religious obsession.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week) 2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (2) 3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (3) 4. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (4) 5. Mila 18, Uris (7) 6. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (8) 7. Clock Without Hands, McCullers (9) 8. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (5) 9. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (6) 10. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (10)

NON FICTION

1. The Making of the President 1960, White (1) 2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2) 3. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (3) 4. The New English Bible (6) 5. Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (4) 6. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (5) 7. The Age of Reason Begins, Will and Ariel Durant 8. A Matter of Life and Death, Peterson (8) 9. Living Free, Adamson 10. Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan

* All times E.S.T.

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