CINEMA Psycho. Perhaps overly gruesome and directed with an unusually heavy hand, this Hitchcock thriller nevertheless adds up to an expertly Gothic nightmare.
The Story of Ruth. The Old Testament's four brief chapters are souped up, padded out and somehow made into a movie that is commendably unepic.
Man in a Cocked Hat. Gap-toothed, numbingly British Comic Terry-Thomas, aided by Peter Sellers and Thorley Walters, launches a satirical spitball at the British Foreign Office in this hilarious spoof of the lost art of statecraft.
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). What could have been a conventional Brief Encounter sort of romance is turned into an intensely moving, if occasionally slow, cinematic poem, largely thanks to its Hiroshima setting, where yesterday's nightmare mingles with the irresistible charms of newly growing life.
I'm AH Right, Jack. Peter Sellers with a crew of top comic accomplices romps through England's "farewell state" satirically rapping both labor and mangement.
The Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot) scores again in this rousingly funny, pointed tale of a junior executive (Jack Lemmon) who permits his licentious bosses to use his Manhattan pad like a midtown motel. With Shirley MacLaine.
Bells Are Ringing. Judy Holliday's extraordinary, effervescent comic talents accomplish what Hollywood's $3,000,000 alone could not--they turn this mediocre musical into a solid success.
Dreams. Director Ingmar Bergman's bright satire pits cunning, confident women against despondent, demoralized men; the outcome is hardly surprising.
TELEVISION
Wed., July 6
Reckoning (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Rerun of Calculated Risk, starring John Cassavetes and E. G. Marshall. A pair of federal tax agents find their investigation of a business firm complicated by its devious president (Conrad Nagel), a chief executive (Warner Anderson) and his pretty daughter (Mona Freeman).
Thurs., July 7
CBS Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Pundit Walter Lippmann makes his first television appearance in a broad, blunt discussion, with Interviewer Howard K. Smith, of Presidents, politics and peeves.
Wrangler (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Ernie Ford's summer replacement is a nomadic cowpoke named Pitcairn (Jason Evers).
Adventure Theater (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Thomas Mitchell plays a henpecked bank teller who embezzles his wife's grocery budget to finance his flight to a palm-studded Pacific paradise. First of a new summer series.
Fri., July 8
Moment of Fear (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In Conjure Wife, first installment of a live suspense series, three overly ambitious wives resort to the supernatural to further their husbands' lagging careers.
Sat., July 9
Miss Universe Pageant (CBS, 10:30 p.m. to midnight). Legs, legs, legs in Miami Beach, watched by Arthur Godfrey.
Sun., July 10
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). In "The Desert World," Robert Neathery, director of Philadelphia's Franklin Museum, discusses life on Mars.
Music on Ice (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Singer Johnny Desmond and f figure-skating friends in a low-temperature variety show.
Mon., July 11
All-Star Baseball Game (NBC, 2:45 p.m.). From Kansas City.
Democratic National Convention. All three networks report the opening ceremonies and Senator Frank Church's keynote speech. CBS, 8 p.m. to midnight; NBC, 8:30-11:15 p.m.; ABC, on occasion.
Tues., July 12
Convention (Contd.). Business session, including a platform-committee report. CBS, 7 p.m.1 a.m.; NBC, 7:30-11:15 p.m.; ABC, on occasion.
THEATER
On Broadway
Bye Bye Birdie. Rock 'n' rollers of the unsilent generation turn this musical about a pompadoured, gold-jacketed crooner into one of the season's best, least pretentious musicals.
Fiorello! Director George Abbott keeps this affectionate, musical memoir as lively as the comic strips the Little Flower used to read over the radio.
West Side Story. In this bustling revival, the dances by Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins and the score by Leonard Bernstein still add up to the fanciest rumble ever seen around the sidewalks of New York.
The Miracle Worker. Memorable acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft transform a somewhat disorganized script into a touching, eloquent chronicle of Helen Keller's childish groping for courage and skill to face a sightless life.
The Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky's engaging allegory explores ancient Jewish mysticism for guidance in solving a spiritual problem of the present.
Toys in the Attic. Three women struggle to keep their lap dog--an engaging but spineless ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.) whose sudden change of fortune gives him strength to slip the leash.
Off Broadway
The Prodigal. Youthful Playwright Jack Richardson turns the Orestes legend into a brilliantly mocking and modern fable.
The Balcony. With acidulous understatement, Playwright Jean Genet divides the world's population into whores and their clients as he tries to prove in this ironic comedy that a house is not only a home but the whole world.
Little Mary Sunshine. The most successful off-Broadway production in years is a Western-accented parody of vintage operetta, a kind of Die Rockymaus telling Tales of the Boulder Woods.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence.
by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. A scrapbook of the poet's life--letters, poems, reviews, Christmas cards and conversation --painstakingly collected by an old friend.
Merry Monarch, by Hesketh Pearson. In a highly entertaining study, Biographer Pearson (Oscar Wilde) insists that, for all the debauchery in the life of Charles II, the madcap monarch was also a witty, wily, effective politician and a determined architect of a prosperous England.
Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. A lively, partly autobiographical study of the Mitford sisters who, like a sextet of disenchanted princesses, haunted the '30s by marrying various men and ideologies, and showing Britain's aristocracy in conflict with history and with itself.
Memoir of the Bobotes, by Joyce Gary. Written when the future novelist was a young man and still three decades away from literary greatness, this unpretentious collection of notes about a half-forgotten Balkan war is nevertheless rich with ob served truth about arms and the man.
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. A great jurist's informal recollections make for a stimulating source of Americana.
Art and Argyrol, by William Schack. The entertaining biography of Albert Barnes, self-made millionaire and self-made ogre, who bought paintings by the boatload but found his greatest joy in thumbing his nose at the world.
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. In a too-worshipful biography, the reader meets the aristocrat, daredevil pilot and eloquent writer who was probably the century's first true poet of the air.
Born Free, by Joy Adamson. Even readers who do not dig cats should enjoy this remarkable, engaging account of how the author--rivaling Androcles--managed to turn a lioness into a household tabby.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (3)*
2. Advise and Consent, Drury (2)
3. Hawaii, Michener (1)
4. The Affair, Snow (4)
5. The Chapman Report, Wallace (8)
6. The Constant Image, Davenport (7)
7. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White
8. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (5)
9. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (6)
10. A Distant Trumpet, Morgan (9)
NONFICTION
1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1)
2. Born Free, Adamson (4)
3. I Kid You Not, Paar (3)
4. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2)
5. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (7)
6. Mr. Citizen, Truman (9)
7. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (8)
8. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (6)
9. The Good Years, Lord
10. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (5)
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