Monday, Aug. 17, 1959

Last Train from Gun Hill. Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn fight it out in a western shot full of sociology, child psychology and Greek tragedy, while Carolyn Jones makes the best of it all as the funny, freaky heroine.

Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's effective courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. James Stewart is the lawyer and Lee Remick the defendant's inviting wife in a court whose memorable presiding judge is famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch.

Wild Strawberries (Swedish). In his 18th film, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman examines one day in the life of a very old, eminent doctor, employing the language of dream and symbol to achieve a moving end.

The Nun's Story. Audrey Hepburn in a gloriously photographed but religiously shallow study of a Roman Catholic nun who finds that she can keep only two of her vows--obedience is her undoing.

Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen.

Ask Any Girl. Charming Shirley MacLaine inspires David Niven, a motivational researcher, to do a little impulse buying himself.

Middle of the Night. Paddy Chayefsky's highly effective saga about a lonely September widower (Fredric March) and a neurotic May girl (Kim Novak).

TELEVISION

Wed., Aug. 12

United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Seed of Guilt plants Actress Gloria Vanderbilt in a family full of high-style snobbery, lets her harvest the inevitable conflict between a class-conscious grandmother and a candid little granddaughter who does not believe that anybody's blood runs blue.

Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.) Archie Moore, tireless tribute to his own gerontological genius, takes on Yvon Durelle for the light-heavyweight championship of the world.

Thurs., Aug. 13

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of one of the brisker shows of last fall. Melvyn Douglas plays a political war-horse returning from retirement to become a special assistant to the President.

Fri., Aug. 14 1959 College All-Star Football Game (ABC, 9:30 p.m.). Out of season but welcome as usual, last year's campus heroes tangle with last year's pro champs, the Baltimore Colts. Red Grange will talk it up at every whistle.

Sun., Aug. 16

Conquest (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). For those who missed it last year, a rerun of Open Heart Surgery, the first network coverage of a major operation. Minnesota's Dr. C. Walton Lillehei puts his heart-lung machine to work to save the life of a five-year-old girl.

The Ransom of Red Chief (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Abetted by the network, Scriptwriter Phil Reisman Jr. has tampered inexcusably with O. Henry's hilarious tale of the kidnaping of a young hellion. With William Bendix, Hans Conried, and Mickey Rooney's nine-year-old son Teddy.

THEATER

On Broadway

A Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier in Lorraine Hansberry's electric first play about a South Side Chicago Negro family bargaining for happiness.

J.B. Archibald MacLeish's Job, though grey-flanneled and smartly modern, has real, old-fashioned theatrical excitement.

My Fair Lady holds the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up) followed by Flower Drum Song just about rounding the box-office turn.

Off Broadway

Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, ages, rages and charms as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the humorist at 70.

Straw Hat

Provincetown, Mass., Playhouse: Lovers in Midstream, a new play by William D. Roberts.

Wellesley, Mass., Theater on the Green: Eric Portman doubles as Mr. Darling and Captain Hook, while Rosemary Harris as Peter has trouble with both in Peter Pan.

Warwick, R.I., Musical Theater: Martha Wright and Don Cornell belt it out in The Pajama Game.

East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: The Clostin Case, a new play by Raymond Bowers.

Latham, N.Y., Colonie Musical Theater: Mimi Benzell as The Merry Widow.

Nyack, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: The Teahouse of the August Moon with Burgess Meredith.

Hinsdale, Ill., Summer Theater: Linda Darnell in the Kaufmann-Ferber comedy, The Royal Family.

Detroit, Northland Playhouse: Comedian Menasha Skulnik in a new comedy, The Law and Mr. Simon.

St. Louis, Municipal Opera Company: Penny (Blondie) Singleton and Russell Nype in Call Me Madam.

La Jolla, Calif., Playhouse: Fernando Lamas in Once More, with Feeling.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. A witty portrait of the lumbering spinster who was Louis XIV's cousin, against a backdrop of her brilliant and squalid age.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilon, by Yukio Mishima. Beauty's dark power to paralyze the will is merely one among many meanings in this sensuously symbolic novel about the burning of a 14th century Buddhist temple.

For 2-c- Plain, by Harry Golden. More potshots, most of them in the bull, in the Carolina Israelite's blintzkrieg of sentiment about old New York, satire about the new South.

The Satyricon of Petronius. A belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all.

The Tents of Wickedness, by Peter De Vries. The plot and the people may be familiar in this sequel to Comfort Me with Apples, but the parodies offer a fine panoramic view of modern fiction.

Image of America, by R. L. Bruckberger. A literate, levelheaded French priest gives a lambent account of how the American Revolution turned dream into reality, while the Russian Revolution turned mirage into nightmare.

Senator Joe McCarthy, by Richard Rovere. A well-balanced account of the man whom Reporter Rovere regards as the Dead End kid of U.S. politics.

Richard Nixon, by Earl Mazo. An expert biography, flattering but far from a campaign puff-piece.

The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The 17th century wit, courtier, soldier and cynic pressed the tart juices of aphorism out of the sweet and sour grapes of his varied social experience.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. Intellectual reminiscences of the days when the future queen of existentialism was only a restless student princess.

The Great Impostor, by Robert Crichton. Fred Demara Jr., the blubbery elf who changes identities as other men change shirts, sketched in an amusing biography.

Robert Rogers of the Rangers, by John R. Cuneo. An able biography of the New Hampshire farmer who became the backwoods scourge of the French and Indian War, later planned a fruitless search for the Northwest Passage.

Fire at Sea, by Thomas Gallagher. A suspenseful, factual whodunit about the burning of the cruise ship Morro Castle.

The Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric. A Yugoslav author's history-haunted elegy to his native land.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (1)*

2. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (2)

3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3)

4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (4)

5. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (5)

6. The Tents of Wickedness, De Vries (6)

7. Celia Garth, Bristow (7)

8. Lolita, Nabokov (8)

9. Wake Up, Stupid, Harris

10. The Light Infantry Ball, Basso

NONFICTION 1. The Status Seekers, Packard (1)

2. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (4)

3. The Years with Ross, Thurber (2)

4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (5)

5. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (3)

6. Richard Nixon, Mazo (6)

7. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (10)

8. The House of Intellect, Barzun

9. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White

10. Only in America, Golden (8)

* All times E.D.T.

*Position on last week's list.

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