CINEMA Under Ten Flags. The German Navy's Van Heflin v. British Admiral Charles Laughton in a better than fair sea-fight thriller, based on one of the more curious naval footnotes to World War II.
The End of Innocence. Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, a Swedish-descended Argentine, shows his debt to Sweden's Ingmar Bergman in a shadowed study of purity, sin--and degeneracy.
Ocean's 11. Frank Sinatra's off-screen clansters (Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr.) as their usual tough-talking, gamboling selves ham up a Las Vegas robbery with enough foolishness to make it look like fun.
Jungle Cat. Another of Walt Disney's magnificently photographed, though sometimes badly edited and narrated, True-Life Adventures, this time about jaguars in the Amazon jungles.
It Started in Naples. A Neapolitan holiday that is pleasurable enough, with Clark Gable, Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica, becomes occasionally hilarious, thanks to a scene-thieving nine-year-old called Marietto.
Sons and Lovers. D. H. Lawrence's searing novel is brilliantly translated to film by Director Jack Cardiff and a fine cast headed by Wendy Hiller and Trevor Howard--whose performances are, respectively, good and great.
Elmer Gantry. Burt Lancaster turns in one of the best performances of his career as Sinclair Lewis' Bible-banging, skirt-chasing evangelist.
Bells Are Ringing. Judy Holliday singing some Comden-Green lyrics is all that this comedy about an answering-service Nightingale offers, but Judy is enough.
TELEVISION
Wed., Sept. 7 The 1960 Summer Olympics from Rome (CBS, 7:30-8:30 and 11:15-11:45 p.m.).-Thurs., Sept. 8 Olympic Games (CBS, 8-8:30 and 11:15-11:45 p.m.).
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).
The Keystone Cops come a-slapsticking out of The Fun Factory of Mack Sennett, as this episode traces the development of the producer genius who, on the side, discovered Charlie Chaplin.
Fri., Sept. 9 Olympic Games (CBS, 9-9:30 and 11:15-11:45 p.m.).
Sat., Sept. 10 Olympic Games (CBS, 1-2:15, 7-7:30 and 9-9:30 p.m.).
National Singles Tennis Championships (NBC, from end of the baseball game to 6:30 p.m.). From the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. Color.
The Tall Man (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.).
First episode in a new series about New Mexico Sheriff Pat Garrett (Barry Sullivan) and his difficulties in getting along with Billy the Kid (Clu Gulager).
World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Immense Design traces the history of scientific theories on the creation of the universe. Color. Repeat.
The 40th Annual Miss America Pageant
(CBS, 10-12 midnight). M.C. Bert Parks
ogles the talent, CBS News Correspondent
Douglas Edwards adds the tone of destiny.
Sun., Sept. 11
American Football League (ABC, 1:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time). The Houston Oilers v. the Oakland Raiders, at Oakland, Calif, (the game will be seen only in the western half of the U.S.).
American Football League (ABC, 2 p.m.). The Buffalo Bills v. the New York Titans, at New York City (to be seen only in the eastern half of the U.S.).
Olympic Games (CBS, 5-6:30 p.m.).
Mon., Sept. 12
Project 20 (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Bob Hope narrates a synopsis of the five years from World War II to 1950. Repeat.
Presidential Countdown (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The first of nine weekly prime-time programs on the political campaign.
Tues., Sept. 13
Thriller (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). First of a new mystery and suspense series narrated by onetime Monster Boris Karloff.
THEATER
On Broadway
When the 1960-61 season opens next week, the new shows will have to go some to match these favorites, which have come through the summer without getting half baked: Toys in the Attic, the latest play by Lillian Hellman, deftly explores the character of a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.): Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, set in a Mineola, I.I. synagogue, brilliantly and with high humor admixes ancient rite with modern psychology; The Miracle Worker owes its excellence to the superb performances of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, as they re-create the early childhood of blind deaf-mute Helen Keller; The Best Man sketches characters who are a mile wide and an inch deep, but nonetheless offers swift, glib and enjoyable theatrical journalism about campaigning politicians in action. Three musicals stand out: the good-as-ever revival of West Side Story, with many of the original cast; the light, reminiscent story of New York's greatest mayor, Fiorello!; and a winsome Broadway analysis of Elvis Presley called Bye Bye Birdie.
Off Broadway
Air-conditioning has helped the better offerings in the little theaters to survive as well. Among them: The Balcony, French Playwright Jean Genet's dramatic thesis that the world is a brothel and vice versa; The Connection, an awesomely naturalistic study of junkies in their pad; Krapp's Last Tape, a single-actor tour de force about youth and age, on a double bill with The Zoo Story, wherein Playwright Edward Albee creates a critical mass by clanging together a beat with a square; A Country Scandal, an early play of Anton Chekhov, produced professionally in the U.S. for the first time, providing ample and comic proof that minor Chekhov is equal to the major efforts of most others; and Little Mary Sunshine, off-Broadway's phenomenal, sellout musical that spoofs the candy-coated operettas of the '20s.
BOOKS
Best Reading The Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The grief of a 59-year-old plumber over the sudden death of his wife is the unlikely subject of this remarkably skillful first novel. With telling economy, Author Wallant suggests the climate of a marriage, the texture of sorrow without sentimentality and the twisting agony of an agnostic Job who cannot tame his rage with resignation.
The Sot-Weed Factor, by John Barth. This comedy of picaresque errors and escapades, set in colonial Maryland, is as deadly serious as it is wildly funny. Its sobering thesis: since man cannot penetrate the multiple masks of reality, he can never really know himself.
Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. The father of soap operas, schoolgirl complexions and singing commercials is given his zestful due in this lively, anecdoteladen biography of the late Albert Lasker, the most formidable ad anthropos in Madison Avenue history.
Decision at Trafalgar, by Dudley Pope. Memorably above the call of routine historical duty, this is a definitive chronicle of the greatest battle of the age of sail and its ageless hero, Lord Nelson.
The Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The late great Greek writer saw God as the search for God. Temptation is his soaring, shocking final vision of that search.
The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. In 1927 the slithiest tove in the Soviet literary propaganda corps aimed this sizzling satirical poker at the Russian Revolution. Ehrenburg recently denounced its publication in the West, something the non-hero of this kosher Candide would have relished.
The Ballad of Peckham Rye, by Muriel Spark. Peckham Rye is a London suburb where the people are too average to sin grandly and too average not to sin. The result is often hilarious.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*
2. Hawaii, Michener (3)
3. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (2)
4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (4)
5. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (5)
6. Before You Go, Weidman (9)
7. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (7)
8. Water of Life, Robinson (6)
9. Diamond Head, Oilman (10) 10. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
NONFICTION 1 Born Free, Adamson ( 1 ) 2. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas (2) 3. The Conscience of a Conservative, Goldwater (3) 4. Enjoy! Enjoy! Golden (8) 5. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (6) 6. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (4) 7. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (5) 8. I Kid You Not, Paar (9) 9. The Good Years, Lord (7) 10. The Liberal Hour, Galbraith
*A11 times E.D.T. except as noted.
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