From Hollywood
CINEMA
Home Before Dark. A soapy but intelligently done story about a wife (Jean Simmons) returning home after a year in a mental hospital; with a brilliant job by Dan O'Herlihy as her husband.
The Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy, who can also be seen fishing in cinematically troubled waters in The Old Man and the Sea, is far more at home playing a curly-haired, Curley-like Irish politician.
Damn Yankees. The musical that played hell with the national game on Broadway gets a helluva good deal itself from Hollywood.
Me and the Colonel. A comic and often touching study in the art of survival, demonstrated by Danny Kaye as a Polish refugee who keeps one jump ahead of the invading Nazi armies in France.
The Defiant Ones. A length of chain ties a couple of escaped convicts (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier) together with a well-forged lesson about brotherhood.
From Abroad
The Seventh Seal (Swedish). A beautifully photographed attempt to "express the modern dilemma" in terms of the medieval morality play--not everyone's cup of mead, but a powerful brew.
Pather Panchali (Indian). Director Savajit Ray has produced the first cinematic masterpiece ever made in India: a stirring vision of life in Mother Asia.
TELEVISION Wed., Nov. 12
Shirley Temple's Storybook (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Ali Baba, after all these generations, still has a fine time wresting the treasure from the Forty Thieves.
The Milton Berle Show (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Uncle Miltie has been a bit wilty, but Guest Jimmy Durante might be just the backbone specialist he needs. Color.
Thurs., Nov. 13
The Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A ho-ho-down, partly because Ernie Ford has chosen to dance with Cliff Arquette, the rustic, marble-mouthed caller of many a Jack Paar square dance.
Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). If it appeared in the daytime, The Winslow Boy might look like a soap opera, but Terence Rattigan's old school tie has a habit of glowing in the dark; with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Siobhan McKenna, Rex Thompson, Denholm Elliott.
Fri., Nov. 14
Your Hit Parade (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A tribute to Tunesmiths Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe and their Fair Lady.
Sun., Nov. 16
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Charles Van Doren, in his first big chore since he reached his TV majority (over Twenty One), does the narration for a documentary on the American Indian.
Conquest (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). Waves, both cranial and oceanic. Half the program consists of film clips from a six-hour job of brain surgery by a team of Johns Hopkins doctors that cured a patient of grand mal epilepsy; the other half describes the toll that the pounding ocean has taken from men, ships and seacoasts.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A stirring reconstruction, with the help of film clips, of the 1939 Russo-Finnish war.
The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). France Nuyen, who is part French, part Chinese, part Broadway (The World of Suzie Wong), in a special production number worked up for her by Director Joshua Logan.
The Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Sid Caesar fans must be fast afoot and nimble in the dialing finger if they are to catch him these days, but he can be seen briefly here. Color.
Mon., Nov. 17
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Lucille Ball ventures away from home and the apartment of Lucy Ricardo for the first time in seven years to play a dance teacher who finds herself managing a prizefighter; with Aldo Ray, William Lundigan.
THEATER
On Broadway
The Pleasure of His Company. Suave drawing-room comedy with Cyril Ritchard as a playboy prodigal father who turns up for his daughter's wedding and turns everything around him upside down. With Cornelia Otis Skinner.
A Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's giant strength and giant sprawl, in a long-ago tale of a boozing, illusion-ridden innkeeper--well played by Eric Portman--and his shattered pose as a fine gentleman. With Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley.
The Music Man. Robert Preston in a musicomedy that has all the jubilant old-time energy of a small-town jamboree.
My Fair Lady. Broadway has grown ; accustomed to her face--still one of the most attractive in sight.
The Visit. The Lunts enhancing a fascinating continental theater piece concerned with a rich woman's vengeful hate and a community that succumbs to greed.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's 19201sh family chronicle, alternating parlor comedy with dark tensions; sometimes vivid, sometimes merely facile.
Two for the Seesaw. Uneven but amusing and touching two-character tale of a split-level, ghost-ridden love affair.
On Tour
My Fair Lady. CHICAGO could easily dance all night with the incomparable 'enry 'iggins and his Liza.
Look Back in Anger. An evening-long snarl at mankind--and particularly womankind--makes for uneven but fairly arresting theater. In PHILADELPHIA.
The Music Man. High-grade corn and shining brass. In SAN FRANCISCO.
Two for the Seesaw. Two castaways in Manhattan (Ruth Roman, Jeffrey Lynn) keep shuttling in and out of each other's apartments, dreams and lives. In MONTREAL.
Auntie Mame. Constance Bennett is fracturing CHICAGO as the Madwoman of Beekman Place after marking a milestone: at the end of one year on the road, her company has grossed more than $1,700,000.
* All times E.S.T.
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