CINEMA

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield has such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A genie, Cyclops and a floppy dragon conspiring against human types in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy set.

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

Nine Lives. The well-told saga of a Norwegian fighting his way through a hell of ice and snow, escaping the Nazis.

The Doctor's Dilemma. Shaw's 52-year-old comedy-drama about the rights of genius and the wrongs of the medical profession makes a pertly entertaining piece of photographed theater.

A Night to Remember. A skillful recreation, based on Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller, of the sinking of the Titanic, which also serves as an ironic commentary on the blind and prideful optimism of the Victorian era.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. A sentimental, overlong but often moving film, not unlike a Cecil DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, with Ingrid Bergman as a missionary in China.

Auntie Mame. Rosalind Russell in a series of essentially lifeless skits saved by her incomparable Rozmatazz.

He Who Must Die (French). The story of a modern Calvary; one of the most powerful religious movies in years.

Separate Tables. A Chekhov situation, without the Chekhov truths, brings half a dozen warped and lonely characters together in an English seaside boardinghouse. The parts provided by Playwright Terence Rattigan, a master illusionist, are well acted by Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Hiller and Gladys Cooper.

TELEVISION

Wed., Feb. 4 Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*

Bette Davis, whose fortitude has yet to show its first sign of wear, makes her western debut.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A re-creation of last year's mine disaster at Springhill, Nova Scotia, in which, amazingly, twelve men were found alive a week after the cave-in, seven more two days after that.

Thurs., Feb. 5 Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Berkeley Square, John Balderston's sentimental compression of time past and time present, is a little old by now, but John Kerr, Jeannie Carson and Edna Best dress it up handsomely. Color.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). An adaptation of Michel del Castillo's poignant 1958 novel Child of Our Time (TIME, Oct. 20), about a rootless boy amid the death shadows of war-haunted Europe.

Sat., Feb. 7 Have Gun, Will Travel (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Dick (Medic) Boone, dark of coat and darker of mien, guns his man down as painlessly (to the viewer) as any of the Old West's virility boys.

Sun., Feb. 8

Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Return of a series for culture vultures; the first mind to be plucked belongs to Edith Hamilton, 91, who has made ancient Greece her own garden.

Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Arthur Kennedy as a newsman turned phony evangelist, in Ben Hecht's play The Third Commandment.

The Twentieth Century (CBS 6:30-7 p.m.). Documentary films of the weird war fought on Attu, Kiska and other Aleutian isles during World War II.

Tues., Feb. 10

The Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Music from left field, right field and deep short, with Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Martha Wright and Rise Stevens among the players. Color.

The Bob Hope Show (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Other, newer models have been added, but this is still the world's best buy in a talking machine.

THEATER

On Broadway

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.

Flower Drum Song. Chop suey (in the words of one of the show's tunes), routinely but expertly prepared by Chefs Rodgers & Hammerstein.

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 wonderful 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

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

Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Henry V, played by London's Old Vic Company, in WASHINGTON.

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

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's sometimes vivid, sometimes merely facile family chronicle, alternating domestic vaudeville with the revelation of each character's inner wounds. In UTICA, SCHENECTADY and ROCHESTER.

The Girls in 509. Peggy Wood plays a violently Republican battle-ax and Imogene Coca her wonderfully wacky niece in an intermittently amusing situation comedy. In CLEVELAND

BOOKS

Best Reading

Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. Love in Paris may sound trite but Author Marsh's novel burns with a passion, grace and honesty that consume all cliches.

Across Paris, by Marcel Ayme. Twelve superlative short stories by the gifted French novelist who puts all of life's ironies in the creative fire.

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

The Haunted Palace, by Frances Winwar. Drinks, drugs and near-madness were Poe's doom, as this fine biography shows, but genius was his destiny.

The Waist-High Culture, by Thomas Griffith. A look at the U.S. cultural ledger and some of its misplaced values.

The Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Tenderness vies with talent in seven tales of the maimed, the infantile and the impotent.

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

The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic.

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.

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. From the Terrace, O'Hara (6) 6. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (5) 7. The King Must Die, Renault (9) 8. Lady L., Gary 9. Victorine, Keyes 10. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico

NONFICTION 1. Only in America, Golden (1) 2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 3. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (7) 4. Wedemeyer Reports! (4) 5. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair 6. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger (5) 7. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery (3) 8. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (9) 9. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen 10. The Three Edwards, Costain

*All times E.S.T. *Position on last week's list.

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