CINEMA

The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Genu, Cyclopes and a floppy dragon conspiring against a few human types (Kathryn Grant Crosby, Kerwin Mathews), in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy set.

tom thumb. Another junior epic: the familiar Grimm tale, tastefully refurbished.

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 intelligence.

The Doctor's Dilemma. A careful, perhaps too conventional interpretation of a 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.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. An uneven but appealing picture in which Ingrid Bergman, as a gentle Englishwoman bent on converting China's millions, covers more ground than Marco Polo.

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

TELEVISION

Wed., Jan. 28

Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).* If the makeup man can make Siobhan McKenna look dowdy, nothing at this late date should get in the way of J. M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, a well-thumbed treatise on giving a career-climbing hubby a homely leg-up; with James Donald, Martita Hunt.

Thurs., Jan. 29

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Insisting that its famed herd of playwrights has not deserted TV, CBS resuscitates Reginald (Twelve Angry Men) Rose, after two years' absence from TV, in a script about a poker game that gets out of hand. Among the inside straight shooters: Barry Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Gary Merrill.

Pat Boone Show (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Bing's youngest, at five months, still lacks the necessary laryngeal nodes, but the first shift (Gary, Dennis, Philip and Lindsay) groan as only the Crosby clan can.

Fri., Jan. 30

Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Cartoon characters join a few selected actors, singers and musicians in a sidelong glance at Tchaikovsky. For the benefit of amateur electronic engineers, the program will be broadcast in stereophonic sound, utilizing AM and FM radio as well as TV.

-All times E.S.T.

Sun., Feb. 1

Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Another in the series of dissertations on the greatest minds. Subject: Albert Einstein, author of the plot (E = mc2) that was the most dramatic of them all.

Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A condensation of James Agee's prizewinning 21/2-hr. "Lincoln Series," first telecast in 1952.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Cohesive film clips of De Gaulle in an earlier triumphal hour, entering liberated Paris in 1944.

The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). A rerun of last year's show featuring Russia's brilliant Moiseyev Dancers.

The Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Shirley MacLaine, Louis Jourdan and five Japanese entertainment groups, including one that makes rice cakes on-camera.

Mon., Feb. 2 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS,

10-11 p.m.). Ernie Kovacs as a humanity-minded hospital patient who becomes so fascinated with medical mystique that he buys a secondhand stethoscope for $3 and sends Hippocrates diving for cover.

THEATER

J.B. A 20th century morality play by Poet Archibald MacLeish, with overtones of both Everyman and Faust, in which God and the Devil contend for the afflicted soul of a modern Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a hollowly humanistic ending, it makes for an arresting evening in the theater and repeats some eternal questions about the meaning of man's suffering. Brilliantly directed by Elia Kazan.

Flower Drum Song. Chop suey (in the words of one of the show's tunes), routinely but expertly prepared by Chefs Rodgers & Hammerstein. With two admirable fortune cookies named Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki.

The Pleasure of His Company. Cyril Ritchard as an overprivileged, middle-aged delinquent who plays havoc with his daughter's behavior patterns.

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. Those 76 trombones keep right on blowing, to everyone's satisfaction.

My Fair Lady. As Eliza would say, just loverly.

Two for the Seesaw. A couple of emotional straphangers on a Manhattan shuttle train, rattling back and forth between love and neurotic despair. Uneven, but touching and amusing.

West Side Story. Romeo and Juliet (more or less) in New York's slums. Music by Leonard Bernstein, brilliant choreography by Jerome Robbins.

On Tour

Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Henry V,

played by London's Old Vic Company, in PHILADELPHIA.

My Fair Lady and Two for the Seesaw in CHICAGO and The Music Man in CINCINNATI are reasonable facsimiles of the Broadway originals.

Look Back in Anger. Playwright John Osborne's fairly arresting snarl at all the world. In CHICAGO.

Best Reading

The Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late famed British novelist put his last hurrah for life in the mouth of a miracle-working faith healer whose untidy life suggests that the road to God need not be paved with good conventions.

The Haunted Palace, by Frances Win-war. A fine biography of Edgar Allan Poe, evoking a life of drink, drugs, and near madness redeemed solely by the unsinkable spar of his sometime genius.

The Waist-High Culture, by Thomas Griffith. A wide-ranging appraisal of the pretensions and performance of U.S. cultural life at midcentury.

The Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Seven short stories about the maimed, the infantile, the impotent, who fall like "twisted apples" from the tree of life.

Lady L., by Romain Gary. An urbane ribbing of those who swallow ideals but cannot stomach people.

Manuel the Mexican, by Carlo Coccioli. A 20th century Passion play.

The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic of adventure, passion and soul-search.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Willful, wistful Holly Golightly is waiting for true love's call, but the men who ring are all wrong numbers.

Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. 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 (3)

4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4)

5. Around the World with Auntie Manie, Dennis (5)

6. From the Terrace, O'Hara (6)

7. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (7)

8. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (8)

9. The King Must Die, Renault (10) 10. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote

NONFICTION

1. Only in America, Golden (1)

2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2)

3. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery (4)

4. Wedemeyer Reports! (3)

5. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger (8)

6. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Boyington (6)

7. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (9)

8. The New Testament in Modern English, translated by Phillips (10)

9. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (5)

10. Chicago: A Pictorial History, Kogan and Wendt

* All times E.S.T.

* Position on last week's list.

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