A Night to Remember. The R.M.S.

Titanic's voyage to disaster, with all the heroism and hysteria reported in Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller. Done in stark, documentary style, with skillful collaboration from Scriptwriter Eric Ambler and Actor Kenneth More.

torn thumb. The familiar tall story and its tiny hero, tastefully refurbished by Hollywood. The Grimms would never recognize its goofy love plot or its gay puppets, but the kids may like it better than the grim original.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. An uneven but generally appealing picture, in which Ingrid Bergman, as a gentle Englishwoman bent on converting China's millions, covers more ground than Marco Polo and seems in no hurry (2 hr. 37 min.) to get the job done.

Auntie Mame. A fierce, frenetic bout between a rather ridiculous script and a superb Rosalind Russell. In the end, Mame is the winner on a split decision.

He Who Must Die (French). A powerful Jules (Riftft) Dassin version of The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis' attempt to show how the life of Christ coincides with the lives of all men in a condition of continuous Calvary.

Separate Tables. A piece of superb showmanship by Playwright Terence Rattigan, the Barnum of the inner life, who exhibits some arresting emotional specimens in a seaside boarding house. Excellently acted by Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper.

TELEVISION

Wed., Jan. 14 Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.)*

Uncle Miltie's starting team has been none too powerful, but his bench is as strong as any in the league; this week's player is Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson.

U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).

Viveca Lindfors as an English lady whose disquieting and perhaps murderous past catches up with her years later in Africa.

Thurs., Jan. 15 Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The voice is honey, the guest Ginger (Rogers).

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).

Playwright Allen Boretz has brought back an old acquaintance: the honest cop victimized by politics and the fickle citizenry; with Edmond O'Brien, Jack Warden.

Fri., Jan. 16 Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.).

The evolution of the elephant, from pre historic mastodons to Dumbo, with a side trip to Cambodia and a teary little documentary about an Indo-Chinese boy and his outsize pet.

The Bob Hope Buick Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Everybody wants to get into Hope's act, including Gina Lollobrigida, Jerry Colonna, Hedda Hopper. The show was filmed in Europe, during Hope's recent flying visit to U.S. military bases.

Sun., Jan. 18 The World of Ideas (CBS, 3:30-4 p.m.).

Premiere of an ambitious, if not downright cluttered, series of seminars exploring, in Socratic fashion, the fundamental principles and assumptions of the Western world; each week there will be 48 thinkers on hand, or about 40 more than Socrates was able to handle at a time.

Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). S. Ji Perelman, a long-toothed pixie who has never been able to believe his eyes, gathers together three of his stories about Hollywood's screaming Mimis under the collective title Malice in Wonderland.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Part 1 of a smooth and calm two-section documentary on juvenile delinquency. Narrated by Walter Cronkite.

Ten Little Indians (NBC, 7-8 p.m.). Nina Foch and Barry Jones in Agatha Christie's stern and rockbound murder classic.

Mon., Jan. 19

Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Pete's Ivy League lapels and button-down eyelids are put to work defending Timothy, a trained seal with enemies.

High Adventure with Lowell Thomas (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A tiny South Pacific island with a name like Puka Puka is just too much for a man with a name like Lowell Thomas to pass up, especially when there are IGY scientists all over the place, firing rockets and sighting in on a solar eclipse.

Tues., Jan. 20

Alcoa Presents (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). A new series dramatizing more-or-less documented cases of supernatural seizures, e.g., extrasensory perception, possession of one mind by another.

THEATER

On Broadway

J.B. A search for the meaning behind modern man's agony, conducted by Archibald MacLeish in a 20th century restatement of the Book of Job. Despite dramatic shortcomings, the verse play is an impressive and moving effort. With Christopher Plummer, Raymond Massey, Pat Hingle.

Flower Drum Song. A routine but opulent and attractive tour of San Francisco's Chinatown. The expert guides: Rodgers and Hammerstein. The sights most worth seeing: Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki.

The Pleasure of His Company. Cyril Ritchard plays a hilariously prodigal father who insists on being an altogether too cozy member of his daughter's wedding.

A Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's Early American alcoholic innkeeper may be more gabby than necessary, but an evening with the doomed dreamer (Eric Portman) adds up to fine theater. With Helen Hayes and Kim Stanley.

The Music Man. A bandstand musical about some wonderfully brassy lowans at the tuneful turn of the century.

My Fair Lady. Still an undiminished delight.

Two for the Seesaw. A kind of prose duet between a couple of Manhattan blues singers. Uneven but amusing and touching. With Anne Bancroft and Dana Andrews.

West Side Story. A bunch of slum kids in the best of all possible environments --dancing to Jerome Robbins' brilliant choreography and singing to Leonard Bernstein's razz-ma-jazz music.

On Tour

My Fair Lady and Two for the Seesaw in CHICAGO and The Music Man in DES

MOINES are satisfactory copies of the Broadway originals.

Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Henry V,

played with zestful art by London's Old Vic Company, are giving BOSTON a new slant on Shakespeare.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Lady L, by Remain Gary. A slim blade of a novel slicing surely at the solemn pretensions of those who love humanity more than they love their fellow men.

Manuel the Mexican, by Carlo Coccioli. A 20th century Passion play in which a young Mexican Indian takes the role not only of Christ but also of Tepozteco, the ancient Aztec deity, thus symbolizing the universality of God.

The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis. An epic arrow-flight of adventure, passion and soul-searching from the literary bow of Greece's late, famed man of letters.

The Prospects Are Pleasing, by Honor Tracy. A satiric jig danced on the thin skin of the Irish.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Holly Golightly gets stuck with a no-carat man every time.

Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. Among men who know field marshals best, Monty candidly picks Monty.

Leyte, by Samuel Eliot Morison. A matchless chronicle of one of history's unmatched naval engagements.

Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book without a country that honors all humanity, by the great Russian poet who won 1958's Nobel Prize but was forced by Big Brotherland to refuse it.

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. In the night sky of literary erotica, no falling starlet shines quite like Nabokov's Dolly.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Doctor Zhivago Pasternak (1)* 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (3) 4. From the Terrace, O'Hara (4) 5. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (5) 6. Exodus, Uris (6) 7. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (7) 8. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (9) 9. Victorine, Keyes (8) 10. The King Must Die, Renault

NONFICTION

1. Only in America, Golden (1) 2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 3. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery (3) 4. Wedemeyer Reports! (4) 5. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (5) 6. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen (8) 7. The Three Edwards, Costain 8. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Boyington 9. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (6) 10. Brave New World Revisited, Huxley (9)

*All times E.S.T.

*Position Position on last week's list.

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