On Broadway
CINEMA
Dreams (Swedish). In the second installment of Director Ingmar Bergman's lewdly hilarious trilogy (the others: A Lesson in Love, Smiles of a Summer Night), the war between the sexes rages in full fury, with the female proving, to Bergman's obvious delight, the far more cunning and vigorous specimen.
The Apartment. This funniest Hollywood comedy since Some Like It Hot (made by the same duet: Producer-Director Billy Wilder and Writer I.A.L. Diamond) packs a sharp moral without stooping to moralizing, as it traces the rise of an organization man (Jack Lemmon) who turns his Manhattan apartment into a walk-up tourist cabin for his lecherous bosses. With Shirley MacLaine as delightful as ever.
The Savage Eye. Plunging into the garbage-choked stream of neurotic consciousness, the camera eye follows a Los Angeles divorcee's futile quest for love, savagely exposes her mind's myths but forgets to respond to her heart.
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). Love redeems even the horror of acres of charred and moaning humanity in this New Wave that rises with atomic power and breaks with poetic beauty.
The Battle of the Sexes. Thurber's The Catbird Seat is transposed into a grand piece of sustained nonsense, with Funnyman Peter Sellers as the bookkeeper with a double-entry personality.
I'm All Right, Jack. Sellers again, this time as a union shop steward who will make a speech at the drop of an aitch, in a film that takes a cracking good satirical look at labor-management relations in England.
TELEVISION
Wed., June 15
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* In The Impostor, a woman has hoped for six years for the return of a missing husband; a bearded hospital outpatient comes along and convinces her that he is her man. With Ann Sheridan and Jean Pierre Aumont.
Thurs., June 16
Spring Music Festival (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A program of American folk songs from colonial times to the '30s includes a thorough anthology of the blues: talkin', big-city, and barrelhouse.
Fri., June 17
Journey to Understanding (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ike in Asia.
CBS Reports (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Berlin: End of the Line is a title worthy of the program's narrator, Edward Roscoe Murrow. Including interviews with West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, Murrow examines the 15-year history of West Berlin.
The Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Rod Serling's The Mighty Casey tries hard not to strike out, features a mechanical robot who pitches for the Hoboken Zephyrs.
Sat., June 18
National Open Golf Championship
(NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). From Denver's Cherry Hills Country Club, NBC's cameras watch over the 16th, 17th and 18th holes during the climactic (fourth) round.
Sun., June 19
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12 12:30 p.m.). A dramatic re-creation of the Trial of Socrates.
Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). Panel discussion: Have the Churches a Duty to Censor?
Johansson-Patterson Prefight Program (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Fight Fan James Cagney interviews the two heavyweights on the eve of their return bout; films of Johansson's earlier victory over Patterson are technically analyzed by Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney.
Mon., June 20
Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Shelley Berman is seen again in the episode about a nightclub comic who hires Gunn to protect him from his wife.
The Emmy Awards (NBC, 10-11:30 p.m.). The TV cousins of Hollywood's Oscars are presented in a package that salves both losers and viewers with guest entertainment by Comedians Bob Newhart, Elaine May and Mike Nichols.
Tues., June 21
Journey to Understanding (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ike in Asia.
THEATER
The Grand Kabuki. For the first time in history, Japan's classical, all-male acting company is performing in the U.S., providing a rich--if necessarily academic--experience for American audiences.
Off Broadway
The Connection. Playwright Jack Gelber makes a devastating assault on theatrical illusion, presents a pad full of junkies in a formless, utterly naturalistic play that has sporadic distinction.
The Prodigal. A 25-year-old playwright named Jack Richardson has written one of the best plays seen in Manhattan in many seasons, reaching with temerity into the house of Atreus for his central figures: Orestes, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Aegisthus. The dress is Argive; the address is modern.
The Balcony. French Playwright Jean Genet sets this monument of dramatic mockery in a brothel, almost proves his point that there are two main classes of people on earth: whores and their clients.
Ernest in Love. Lee Pockriss' engaging music grafts smoothly onto Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, in an adaptation that is careful not to shatter the original's cut-glass dialogue.
Little Mary Sunshine. Despite a title that would embarrass Oscar Hammerstein, the most phenomenal off-Broadway success since The Threepenny Opera is a reminiscent farce that parodies the sugar-glazed operettas of yesteryear's Kerns and Frimls.
The American Savoyards. A different, excellently done Gilbert & Sullivan operetta each week. This week: lolanthe.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. The flamboyant French airman who wrote Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince is worth reading about in this biography by an old flying comrade, even though the book is flawed by grandiloquence.
Born Free, by Joy Adamson. The author, drawing on her own experience as the wife of a Kenya gamekeeper, gives a detailed and fascinating solution to one of the least urgent problems of the century --how to bring up a lion as a pet.
The Saviors of God, by Nikos Kazantzakis. This book of aphorisms shows the intense spiritual longing of modern Greece's most noted writer; for Humanist Kazantzakis, God was, essentially, the search for God.
Three Circles of Light, by Pietro di Donate. A Saroyanesque merry-go-round, spinning to music not always merry, about Italian immigrants in West Hoboken--the scene of the author's famed first novel, Christ in Concrete.
Homage to Clio, by W. H. Auden. There may be nothing very new in this collection of Auden's recent poems, but at 53 the poet is still shrewd, amusing, and prodigiously talented.
Through Streets Broad and Narrow, by Gabriel Fielding. With torrents of prose, marvelously antic characters and more than enough plot, the author follows the capricious hero of two earlier novels (Brotherly Love, In the Time of Greenbloom) on a calamitous expedition to Ireland.
The Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author later found it advisable to become a docile party-liner, but in the 1920s, when he wrote the short fiction pieces in this paperback collection, he was one of Communism's most caustic satirists.
Food for Centaurs, by Robert Graves. Although his form ranges from essay to lecture to story, the poet's wryly cantankerous wit and charm remain the same.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)* 2. Hawaii, Michener (2) 3. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (3) 4. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (6) 5. The Constant Image, Davenport (4) 6. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (7) 7. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (5) 8. A Distant Trumpet, Horgan (8) 9. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (9) 10. The Affair, Snow
NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (5) 4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 5. Born Free, Adamson (9) 6. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (3) 7. Act One, Hart (6) 8. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (8) 9. Grant Moves South, Catton (7) 10. Hollywood Rajah, Crowther -- Position on last week's list
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