Nine Lives. The World War II saga of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian who spent more than a month in open snow escaping the Nazis, is related with reverence, intelligence and clear subtitles.
The Doctor's Dilemma. A careful, rather too conventional interpretation of a strange and sometimes brilliant play that sheds less light on its subject than it does on the mind of Playwright Bernard Shaw, who sometimes dates but never sedates.
A Night to Remember. The R.M.S. Titanic's voyage to disaster, with all the triumphs and hysterics reported in Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller.
tom thumb. The familiar tall story and its tiny hero, tastefully refurbished by Hollywood.
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. Rosalind Russell is terrific as the world's most celebrated auntique, but as far as the script is concerned, it's a bit of a shame about Mame.
He Who Must Die (French). A powerful Jules (Rififi) 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. Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Hiller and Gladys Cooper sit down to eat crow, served up by Playwright Terence Rattigan.
TELEVISION
Wed., Jan. 21 The Lost Class of '59 (CBS, 8-9 p.m.).
The effect of Virginia's "massive resist ance" to school integration on the 13,000 Norfolk students who now have no schooling at all, as seen through the camera eye of Edward R. Murrow.
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A good forgery's beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, and the villain of this slicked-up true story dazzles hundreds of shopkeepers before the T-men catch up.
Thurs., Jan. 22 The Real McCoys (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.).
The McCoys, daguerreotypes of life on the farm, outrageously violate all soil-bank restrictions on hokum but provide some homely fun while they are at it.
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).
TV Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling, who has often brooded about the problems of money and success in the business world, broods about the problems of money and success in the writing trade. With Art Carney, Katharine Bard, Jack Klugman, Bonita Granville.
Fri., Jan. 23 Pontiac Special (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). An animated and skillfully illustrated lecture in original musical comedy by Phil Silvers, a magna cum laude graduate of the old school; with songs by Broadway's Ronny Graham.
Sat., Jan. 24
Young People's Concerts (CBS, 12-1 p.m.). Second in a series of orchestral recitals for the lemonade set, with Leonard Bernstein running the New York Philharmonic through selections from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven.
Sun., Jan. 25
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 a.m.). Fourth of a six-part series about the half dozen men who have had the greatest influence, at least as Johns Hopkins University sees it, in shaping modern society. Subject this time: Philosopher John Locke, whose works inspired the framers of the American Constitution.
The Bob Hope Show (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). For those who wonder what a ski nose looks like with snow on it but missed the first showing, a re-run of Hope's visit to Moscow last March; with Violinist David Oistrakh, Ballerina Galina Ulanova.
Kaleidoscope (NBC 5-6 p.m.). The title--The Wonderful Atom-- is open to argument, but a filmed trip through the nuclear-research facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory does much to justify the adjective.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The concluding segment of a two-part documentary on juvenile delinquency takes a close, informative look at Highfields, New Jersey's experimental rehabilitation center for J.D.s.
Mon., Jan. 26
Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Film footage on a lofty plain: the highlands of Peru, which support not only Inca fortresses but also the world's highest navigable lake (Titicaca) and a beast, once notorious in Washington, the vicuna.
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). "Verdi Night," with Roberta Peters, Blanche Thebom, Cesare Valletti and Cesare Siepi.
THEATER
On Broadway
J.B. Poet Archibald MacLeish modernizes the Book of Job with theatrical eloquence. A tale of anguish, anxiety and eventual affirmation, told with scarifying effects inside a night-lit circus tent while a disaster-ridden banker, symbolizing modern man, wrestles with his soul. With Christopher Plummer, Raymond Massey.
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 is as long-winded as ever, but it's a powerful wind that blows a lot of good in this tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling illusions. With Eric Portman, Kim Stanley, Helen Hayes.
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.
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 by London's Old Vic Company, in PHILADELPHIA.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Into this skillfully woven basket of short stories, the author tenderly places seven "twisted apples"--the maimed, the infantile, the impotent--that have fallen from the tree of life.
Lady L., by Romain Gary. Those who love ideals so much that they have no room in their hearts for people are mercilessly but urbanely ribbed by the versatile French novelist and diplomat.
Manuel the Mexican, by Carlo Coccioli. A 20th-century Passion play that vibrates with the piety of Indian Mexico.
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.
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. With world sales of at least 1,500,000 copies, the book without a country continues to race through the inner space of humanity's heart and conscience.
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. Exodus, Uris (6)
4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (5)
5. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (3)
6. From the Terrace, O'Hara (4)
7. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (7)
8. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (8)
9. The Mountain Is Young, Han Suyin
10. The King Must Die, Renault (10)
NONFICTION
1. Only in America, Golden (1)
2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2)
3. Wedemeyer Reports! (4)
4. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery (3)
5. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (5) 6. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Boyington (8)
7. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen (6)
8. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger
9. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (9)
10. The New Testament in Modern English, translated by Phillips
*All times E.S.T.
* Position on last week's list.
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