CINEMA

Look Back in Anger. The angry young hero (Richard Burton) boils over with indiscriminate rage at religion, the Sunday Times, his mother-in-law. Somehow the John Osborne play seemed saner on the stage than it does on the screen--but with Claire Bloom and Gary Raymond to help, the movie has its moments.

The Blue Angel. This Hollywood remake of the 29-year-old German movie classic--about a cabaret siren who destroys a respectable professor--may appeal to anyone who did not see the original. For all her charms, sultry Swedish May Britt cannot fill Marlene Dietrich's silk stockings.

The Magician (Swedish). The latest witches' brew--mesmerism, symbolism and sex--concocted by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, one of the most intriguing moviemakers now at work.

The Man Upstairs. A topnotch thriller about a demented scientist who tries to defy the world.

North by Northwest. The master's Hitchcockiest yarn in years gives a picture of the CIA that would make any real-life operative laugh his head off; nevertheless, suspense guaranteed. With Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.

TELEVISION

Wed., Sept. 30

The World Series (NBC, 12:30 p.m.)* Regular programs will be pre-empted for every game of the baseball classic. Color, when the network can swing it.

Men into Space (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). As up-to-date as tomorrow's astronauts--or yesterday's comic strip. On the first "Moonprobe," an Air Force colonel (William Lundigan) comes close to being left all alone out in the Stardust.

Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Perry Como is back, just as tuneful and as artfully tired as before he began his vacation. Guests include Walter Brennan and the "discharged" G.I.s of Sergeant Bilko's disbanded platoon. Color.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The troubles of a ten-year-old girl who cannot speak because she cannot hear make a poignant case history in Zone of Silence. Ten-year-old Patty Duke ought to have no more trouble with the leading role than she does with the part of the young Helen Keller in the Broadway-bound play, The Miracle Worker.

Thurs., Oct. 1

Bat Masterson (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Gene Barry as Bat begins the new season in To the Manner Born, saving a rich widow and swinging his silver-headed cane as if he really were to the manor born.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A South American dictator is the Target for Three--three young idealists, that is, who are not averse to a little well-meant murder.

Fri., Oct. 2

The Art Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The variety format is familiar, but the guest list (including Hermione Gingold, Edie Adams, Miyoshi Umeki, Hans Conried) promises to make this one something special. Color.

The Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling, temporarily forsaking highfalutin' specials, turns out a new action-adventure series dealing with fantasy and the occult.

Sat., Oct. 3

Five Fingers (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Another action-adventure series, this one based on the World War II spy tale, Operation Cicero. Luscious Luciana Paluzzi, who plays a latter-day Mata Hari, ought to make it worth watching.

Sun., Oct. 4

Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Part II of Budd Schulberg's deft dissection of a Hollywood heel on the make. Color.

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The All-American girl is back with a couple of world champions from widely varied weight classes--Ingemar Johansson and Gwen Verdon. Color.

Mon., Oct. 5

The Danny Thomas Show (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). One of the more literate of the family-style comedies.

Philip Marlowe (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Writer Raymond Chandler's durable private eye seems tough enough to survive even the indignities of television. Smoothly done a la Peter Gunn, far-out jazz and all.

Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). The first of a highly touted series of specials, The Wonderful World of Entertainment weighs in with Rosalind Russell, Maurice Chevalier, Polly Bergen, Eddy Foy Jr., Jack Paar, Kate Smith and Eddie Hodges.

THEATER

On Broadway

Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare's play is a bore in everything except its prickly-pear love story, and this becomes a total delight as played by Sir John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton.

A Raisin in the Sun. There is no sun in this Chicago Negro tenement, but the characters who live there light up Lorraine Hansberry's first play with love, humor and dreams of escape.

J.B. Archibald MacLeish's anguished reappraisal of God's way with man, in a slambang staging by Elia Kazan.

La Plume de Ma Tante. This French revue is as funny, and almost as silent, as a Keystone Cops movie.

My Fair Lady still leads the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up), followed by Flower Drum Song, just about rounding the box-office turn.

BOOKS

Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. A challenging study of what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, notably, the lack of a clear American public philosophy.

Act One, by Moss Hart. One of the most entertaining autobiographies of this or any other theatrical generation.

This Is My God, by Herman Wouk. The bestselling novelist (Caine Mutiny) presents a simple, admirably clear guide to Judaism.

Men Die, by H. L. Humes. Fate rings its intricate coils around some white officers and Negro enlisted men tunneling a Caribbean ammunition dump. In their common doom, Novelist Humes finds some timeless observations about the human condition.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov. Early Nabokov (circa 1941) is better than Late Almost Anybody Else,.and in this novel his paradoxical mind plays trenchantly over the nature of reality, identity, and the artist's task.

The Siege at Peking, by Peter Fleming. A vivid re-creation of the Boxer Rebellion.

The Restlessness of Shanti Andia, by Pio Baroja, translated by Anthony Kerrigan. A tale of high 19th century adventure (duels, mutiny, piracy) along the Basque seacoast told in a dry, direct style full of stoic understatement.

John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison. From boudoir to quarterdeck, John Paul Jones was a storybook figure, and no one has told the story better than able Sea Scribe Morison.

The Mermaid Madonna, by Stratis Myrivilis. Life is harsh, but the living of it sweet, in this island idyl of the wine-dark sea by one of Greece's finest novelists,

Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Many an established author might envy this new writer these 15 expertly crafted stories about Negroes in a small Southern town.

On a Balcony, by David Stacton. The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism, if Author Stacton is right in this astringent, superior historical novel.

More Than Meets the Eye, by Carl Mydans. A crack photographer shelves his camera and relies on the language of the heart to describe his Ulyssean voyages over the battlefronts of the last 2 1/2 decades.

Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. This 616-page novel yawns for an editor's blue pencil, but New York Timesman Drury knows Washington from the inside.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1 . Advise and Consent, Drury ( 1 )* 2. Exodus, Uris (2) 3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 4. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (4) 5. The Cave, Warren (5) 6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6) 7. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner (7) 8. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (8) 9. New Face in the Mirror, Dayan 10. The Town House, Lofts NONFICTION 1. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (1) 2. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 3. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (3) 4. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (5) 5. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4) 6. The Years with Ross, Thurber (6) 7. The Great Impostor, Crichton (10) 8. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (7) 9. Richard Nixon, Mazo (8) 10. More Than Meets the Eye, Mydans

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