On Broadway
CINEMA
They Came to Cordura. Hollywood's standard brand of horsemeat is dished up with a strong sauce of metaphysics in this Gary Cooper western about a coward who shows the meaning of courage.
Pillow Talk. A sometimes fluffy comedy with Supporting Player Tony Randall darning all the yoks, and Stars Doris Day and Rock Hudson on hand to supply scenery.
Career. In this soaper about show business, Sad Young Hero Anthony Franciosa performs ably, but the viewer may puzzle over why the theater so often presents itself as one of the bleeding arts.
The FBI Story. A fast-draw documentary of an upright Hoover man, which manages to click despite a cluttering subplot concerning the domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart.
Look Back in Anger. A glimpse through an attic window into a twilight society that looks forward to the past. With Richard Burton as the original Angry Young Man.
The Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's latest brilliant brew of symbolism and sex.
North by Northwest. Director Hitchcock's compass points both to Gorky Street and Madison Avenue, with a smooth adman (Gary Grant) accidentally and entertainingly caught in the grasp of a sly spy (James Mason) and his secret weapon (Eva Marie Saint).
The Diary of Anne Frank. A tender, heartfelt masterpiece.
Television
Wed., Nov. 4 Another Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Music and dancing by the team that put the sparkle into last year's award-winning show: Astaire, Barrie Chase, the Jonah Jones Quartet, David Rose and his orchestra, and Producer-Director Bud Yorkin. Color.
Thurs., Nov. 5 The Betty Hutton Show (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). When an overimaginative governess (Betty Hutton) tries to teach her wealthy charges the value of money, the results are drastic: the kids' parents actually go to work.
Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). With Staccato (John Cassavetes) calling the shots, this musical Eye is tough enough this time to fight his way out of a dangerous doublecross.
Fri., Nov. 6 Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The ultimate in spectator sports, Perilous Assignment lets the arm chair adventurer sit in on a mountain-climbing class conducted by French Guide Gaston Rebuffat.
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A musical salute to the armed forces, starring Singers Johnny Desmond, John Raitt, Jaye P. Morgan, Ballerina Allegra Kent and the Coast Guard Glee Club. Color.
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Love, marriage and financial trouble in a tenement section of Brooklyn. With Marisa Pavan.
Sat., Nov. 7
ILS.-British Ryder Cup Golf (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The final holes of the final day of play at the Eldorado Country Club, Palm Desert, Calif.
Sun., Nov. 8
Opera (NBC, 4-6 p.m.). The network's opera company presents a new English version of Beethoven's Fidelia. Starring Irene Jordan, John Alexander and Lee Cass. Color.
Mon., Nov. 9
Woman! (CBS, 11-12 a.m.). The Marriage That Failed peers earnestly into the causes and available cures for marital failure in the U.S. Hostess: Margaret Truman Daniel.
Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). As a Western con man, the late Errol Flynn (on film) peddles his saloon just before the mines that support the town play out.
Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb plays both knight and servant in I, Don Quixote, a modern version of Cervantes' classic.
Tues., Nov. 10
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Sir Alec Guinness makes his U.S. TV debut in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks, as a bank teller who embezzled cash, not by dipping into the till, but by depositing money in other people's accounts.
THEATER
On Broadway
The Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and ten-year-old Patty Duke superbly enact famed Teacher Annie Sullivan's turbulent, triumphant struggle with the child Helen Keller. The play is sometimes clumsy, but the show as a whole is unforgettable theater.
Heartbreak House. An uneven but often brilliant production of Shaw's uneven but often brilliant portrayal of "cultured, leisured Europe" before World War I. With Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Sam Levene, Diana Wynyard.
Take Me Along. O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! set to music becomes a lilting period piece, bolstered by the vaudeville virtuosity of Jackie Gleason, brightened by the acting talents of Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse.
At the Drop of a Hat. Ranging between satire and whimsy, the educated "afterdinner farrago" of two English song-and-chatter specialists provides one of the gayest evenings on Broadway.
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still casts its warm, affectionate illumination on Negro life on Chicago's South Side; La Plume de Ma Tante remains a vintage French revue; My Fair Lady and The Music Man head the musical comedy division.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Mansion, by William Faulkner. Despite awkwardness, even sloppiness, in the writing, this last installment of the Snopes trilogy (earlier novels: The Hamlet, The Town) remains a smoldering personal testament to the worst in the American South and the worst in man. Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An able biography of the deaf, eccentric, agnostic genius who may not have been the world's greatest inventor, but who had no equal as an inventor-promoter.
The Armada, by Garrett M. Mattingly. A clear, exciting account of one of history's most crucial and inept naval campaigns, and of the stormy political climate in which it was fought.
The Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. Without sentiment or solemn artiness, the author describes the city that "invented" the Renaissance.
Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. Despite inevitable translation difficulties, the verse of Dr. Zhivago's author suggests genius.
The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The redoubtable dunce of the immigrant English class is back, just as funny as ever.
The Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. The 18th century's most dedicated amoralist tells tall tales of his libertine youth.
The Devil's Advocate, by Morris West. An effective, moving novel about a cancer-stricken priest who investigates the lives of a possible saint and of the sinners involved in his death.
A Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. A naturalist's engaging account of how nature survives in the asphalt jungle.
The Rack, by A. E. Ellis. The hero of this chilling novel fights to remain alive in a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium.
Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. The leader of Burma's jungle-fighting Chindits during World War II, portrayed in a well-done biography.
Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. What the U.S. needs, the author argues in a trenchant review of the nation's foreign policy, is a coherent public philosophy.
Act One, by Moss Hart. A playwright's fascinating, immensely entertaining account of his agitated life in the theater.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)* 2. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (2) 3. Exodus, Uris (3) 4. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain 5. The War Lover, Hersey (5) 6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (4) 7. The Thirteenth Apostle, Vale (7) 8. The Devil's Advocate, West 9. Station Wagon in Spain, Keyes (8) 10. I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf, Shulman NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. The Status Seekers, Packard (3) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 4. This Is My God, Wouk (6) 5. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (4) 6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (5) 7. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (7) 8. Groucho and Me, Marx (8) 9. A Natural History of New York City, Kieran 10. The Ape in Me, Skinner (9)
-*All times E.S.T. *Position on last week's list.
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