Masters of the Congo Jungle. A camera roaming through densest Africa arrestingly catches the primordial behavior of man and beast.
The Savage Eye. The eye is the camera, and savage is the word for it as it views the pointless life and loveless love of a Los Angeles divorcee.
Jazz on a Summer's Day. During 85 woolly minutes at the Newport Jazz Festival, a novice director gives his audience some solid sound, and a way-in view of the way out: Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan and like that.
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). In a film artfully woven of languorous daydreams and short, jagged episodes of violence and death, a Japanese architect and a French actress find that love can grow in the atomic rubble of Hiroshima.
Flame Over India. In an Eastern version of the western, not even hordes of the fiercest Indians (Asian variety) can stop a trainload of assorted adventurers, including Lauren Bacall, from toting a threatened little rajah to safety.
PoIIyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie sticks to the original lachrymose plot like warm icing to a sugar bun. Intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills.
The Battle of the Sexes. Versatile Actor Peter Sellers as James Thurber's dull little clerk who finds unsuspected strength in his filing-cabinet mind when he battles a female efficiency expert.
I'm All Right, Jack. This time Sellers is a union shop steward--a ludicrous but often pathetic petty-bourgeois Marxist--in an uproarious satire of the featherbedded "farewell state."
TELEVISION
Wed., June 1
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-Four young unmarrieds--conveniently subdivided into two males and two females--have a go at the Is-this-the-real-thing? theme. With Jeff Donnell, Betsy Palmer.
Thurs., June 2
Variety--World of Show Biz (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). With his guests, Chita Rivera, and Gene Barry, Sid Caesar parodies Bat Masterson, silent films and nightclub poetry readings.
Fri., June 3
The Sacco-Vanzetti Story (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Presented on this and the following Friday, Reginald Rose's two-part play about Sacco and Vanzetti (Martin Balsam and Steven Hill) begins with the 1920 murder of a South Braintree, Mass, paymaster and payroll guard, traces the arrests and courtroom scenes that were played out before the attention of the world, as many felt that the immigrant defendants were more on trial for their anarchistic beliefs than for murder.
Sat., June 4 John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Huckleberry Jack is afloat on his raft of film clips, exploring the history of the Mississippi River.
Sun., June 5
Campaign Roundup (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.). Beginning today, ABC newsmen around the U.S. will report each Sunday on the attitudes of delegates and plain citizens in their regions. Subject this week: California and South Dakota primaries.
Tues., June 7
The George Burns Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guests: Jack Benny, Betty Grable, Bobby Darin, Polly Bergen. Color.
The Red Skelton Show (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Red's main skit is about a fellow who takes refuge in a fallout shelter when his wife prepares to take the role of Madame Butterfly in a women's club production.
THEATER
On Broadway
Bye Bye Birdie. A bodacious teen-rage crooner (Dick Gautier) emits a rousing rock-'n'-roll call, and among those who follow it in this rambunctious musical are a howling pack of teen-agers and leggy Dancer Chita Rivera.
Duel of Angels. The icy virtue of Mary Ure, as a self-righteous Lucrece, is soon broken by the vice of Vivien Leigh, in a glowing performance of Jean Giraudoux's last play.
Toys in the Attic. The women in a family discover an unpleasant fact of life in Lillian Hellman's taut drama: when their one man gets rich, he no longer needs their smothering care.
The Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky digs deep into Jewish mythology to find a cure for a girl with a very modern malady.
The Miracle Worker. In William Gibson's story of the dark life led by blind little Helen Keller, Patty Duke as Helen and Anne Bancroft as her teacher Anne Sullivan give radiant performances.
Fiorello! A bright musical sprays old New Yorkers with nostalgia, informs Cholly-come-latelies that La Guardia is more than an airport.
West Side Story. Back in town with essentially the same cast, this milestone dance-musical of 1957 follows its serious theme--gang warfare in Manhattan slums --as movingly as ever.
Off Broadway
Henry IV, Part I alternating with Part 11. As revived at the Phoenix Theater, Shakespeare's roustabouts have rarely been merrier or Falstaff such an effective blend of pretense and pathos.
The Prodigal. A brilliantly modern Orestes.
The Balcony. In Jean Genet's ironic comedy, a house is not only a home but the whole world, and the pleasures bought there are not only of the flesh but of the imagination.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Homage to Clio, by W. H. Auden. At 53, Poet Auden may long ago have said everything he had to say, but his talent remains prodigious, and in this collection of poems written during the last five years, his ruminative restatements are often effective.
The Big Ward, by Jacoba van Velde. The Dutch author writes without tricks or sentimentality about an ordinary old woman who accepts death with dignity.
Through Streets Broad and Narrow, by Gabriel Fielding. The author follows the hero of two earlier novels (Brotherly Love, In the Time of Greenbloom) to Ireland; there, amid torrents of brilliant but overplotted prose, he finds that shamrocks can be harder than granite.
The Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author is now a docile party-liner, but in 1927, when he wrote the short novel Envy, which heads this paperback collection, he was a satirist well able to see the terrors of the new robot society.
The Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth in a projected cycle of eleven novels about Britain's New Men--the scientists, bureaucrats and educators who form a new upper middle class--this book is an expert, ironic and somewhat sluggish examination of a scientific scandal at a major British university.
Venetian Red, by P. M. Pasinetti. A wry, old-fashioned novel of modern Venice, concerned with such formidable matters as love, death, courage and the Fascist corruption of Italy.
Food for Centaurs, by Robert Graves. Besides writing with wit and learning about the centaurs' food (aphrodisiac mushrooms), the author renders highly personal judgments on Judas and Benedict Arnold (no traitors), afterworlds (dull) and Ava Gardner (delightful).
The Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield. This quirky novel revolves with less than planetary steadiness around the zodiacal notions of a Polish countess who is stranded in Mexico; fortunately the author's astrologic chopping is relieved by fine descriptions of Mexican sights and sounds.
The Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. The story of the deterioration of Sicilian nobility in the 19th century becomes, in the author's wry, melancholy prose, a memorable elegy to the aristocratic spirit.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)-
2. Hawaii, Michener (2)
3. The Constant Image, Davenport (3)
4. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (6)
5. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (5)
6. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (7)
7. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (4)
8. Clea, Durrell (8)
9. A Distant Trumpet, Horgan
10. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York, Gallico
NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. I Kid You Not, Paar (5) 4. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (4) 5. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (3) 6. Born Free, Adamson (7) 7. Act One, Hart (6) 8. Hollywood Rajah, Crowther (8) 9. Grant Moves South, Catton (10) 10. The Conscience of a Conservative, Goldwater
* All times E.D.T. -Position on last week's list.
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