Ask Any Girl. Shirley MacLaine is wonderful in a soso story about motivational research and its application to love.
The Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor, in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists. Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini.
Room at the Top. A Tenzing among social climbers ice-picks his way to the top of a grim British industrial town.
Compulsion. A tight, suspenseful film about the heinous crime and the court trial of Leopold and Loeb.
The Diary of Anne Frank. An enthralling masterpiece by Producer-Director George Stevens.
Some Like It Hot. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, dressed in skirts, pant madly after Marilyn Monroe.
The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel, disinfected but still getting the best movie treatment of any of his works.
Aparajito (Indian). Part two, following Father Panchali, of Director Satyajit Ray's brilliantly illuminating trilogy on a poverty-stricken Indian family.
TELEVISION
Wed., June 10
The Dave King Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A British young man who is not angry about anything at all, merely perplexed, original and funny.
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m. )." A semidocumentary about dope addiction.
Thurs., June 11
The Real McCoys (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). The whimsy gets overpowering at times, but there is still a good deal of fun down on the farm.
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb in a play, by Loring Mandel, about a scientist's effort to construct an electronic replica of the human brain.
Fri., June 12
The Thin Man (NBC. 9:30-10 p.m.). Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk tangle in their debonair fashion with a character who claims to be the last of the West's badmen.
Sat., June 13 The National Open Golf Championship (NBC, 4:30-6 p.m.). Live coverage of the last few holes of the tournament.
Sun., June 14
Open Hearing (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). The first of two live broadcasts of war games at Fort Bragg, N.C., including a massive air drop of heavy equipment and paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A worthy rerun of a topnotch documentary on D-day and the breakthrough on the western front.
The Jack Benny Program (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). One of the classic TV shows, now nearly nine years old, in which Jack invites himself to dinner at the home of the late Ronald Colman.
Mon., June 15 Kodak Presents Disneyland '59 (ABC,
7:30-9 p.m.). A tour of Walt's kiddie wonderland that will take in his model of the Matterhorn. a bobsled ride, a ride on a monorail, and the park's newest gimmick: a "Submarine Voyage Beneath the Seven Seas."
Peter Gunn (NBC. 9-9:30 p.m.). Pete, who covers more ground than an antelope, here finds himself involved in political blackmail: with Craig Stevens as the intrepid hero.
Tues., June 16
The Garry Moore Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Creeping good-guyism, with help from Anna Maria Alberghetti, Carol Haney, Morey Amsterdam.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family lives in a tenement that is rarely touched by the sun, but the glow of passion, humor, fear and stirring dreams lights up each character.
Redhead. Gwen Verdon spends talent wildly in a musical that needs all the jazz she has.
J.B. Out of the verse of Poet Archibald Macleish and the theatrical verve of Director Elia Kazan, a businessman's Job comes excitingly alive.
La Plume de Ma Tante. If the producers of this madcap French revue chance to do a sequel, the late Wallace Stevens provided a title: Le Monocle de Mon Oncle.
The Flower Drum Song. An adult East-meets-Western about two generations of Sino-Americans, with second-best R. & H. book and lyrics.
The Pleasure of His Company. In the only well-appointed drawing room on Broadway, a lion (Cyril Ritchard) of the vanishing playboy breed scares off his daughter's mousy fiance.
Superiority breeds content with My Fair Lady, West Side Story and The Music Man, the most delightful trio of musicals on Broadway.
Off Broadway
Mark Twain Tonight! Premature old age descends nightly on Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the great humorist as a platform lecturer of 70.
Once Upon a Mattress. A feather-light funfest that updates the famed nursery fable about the princess and the pea. Comedienne Carol Burnett could scarcely be improved upon.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Day Before Yesterday, by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. An impressive if understandably partisan biography of T.R.'s son, who lacked his father's greatness, but found a niche in history by fighting bravely in both world wars.
The Godstone and the Blackymor, by T. H. White. The quirky scholar who wrote The Once and Future King offers a slim but strong-flavored book on his wanderings in western Ireland.
Kenneth Grahame, by Peter Green. A sympathetic, well-written biography of the eccentric British banker who never grew up, wrote a classic children's book, The Wind in the Willows.
The Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. A lively discourse on the changing fashions in man's view of the universe, from Ptolemy's epicycles to the post-Newtonian continuum.
War Memoirs, by Charles de Gaulle. The author himself is the predestined hero of the second volume (1942-44) of his war memoirs.
Du Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the last and most appealing of Louis XV's "lefthanded queens" of France.
The Straw Man, by Jean Giono. The hero is manipulated, puppetlike, in this sardonic tale of 19th century revolt, but sometimes the strings pull both ways.
Time Walked, by Vera Panova; A Russian novelist's warm account of the commonplace wonders in the life of a six-year-old boy.
King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan! The slam-bang biography of an elephant-sized royal gnat named Mithradates who buzzed around Rome's flanks for years.
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. Urbane conversation about Goethe, a swami, an archbishop and assorted other people and problems.
Endurance, by Alfred Lansing. A grimly moving account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1915 Antarctic expedition.
The Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. The grueling World War II adventures of Merrill's Marauders.
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. A rousing novel of Red herring-do in the back alleys of Alexandria.
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An eccentric New Zealand woman whose high passion is teaching appears as the heroine of a warm and well-told novel.
Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. Short stories about Jews, with a cutting edge of humor that can nick both Jew and Gentile.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Exodus, Uris (1)*
2. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4)
3. Doctor Zhivago,Pasternak (2)
4. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (3)
5. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6)
6. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (7)
7. Lolita, Nabokov (5)
8. Nine Coaches Waiting, Stewart
9. Celia Garth, Bristow
10. The Chinese Box, Eyre
NONFICTION
1. The Status Seekers, Packard (1)
2. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (2)
3. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (4)
4. Only in America, Golden (3)
5. Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins (6)
6. My Brother Was an Only Child, Douglas (8)
7. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (5)
8. The Years with Ross, Thurber
9. Folk Medicine, Jarvis
10. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (10)
*All times E.D.T. *Position on last week's list.
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