The Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker's socialist shocker clatters, boils and roars its way through a day in the help's half of a big London restaurant. As dialectic it may be flimsy, but as theater it is a feast.
Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.
West Side Story. Broadway's long-running choreoperetta, despite some sick-sick-sick pseudosociology, makes a big, fast, exciting cinemusical.
Loss of Innocence. A careful adaptation of Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer evokes with irony and passion all the charm of a young girl's growing up.
Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignee expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with grace and fluent wit.
Macario. The black-and-white magic of the motion-picture camera is artfully employed in this Mexican adaptation of B. Traven's profound little fable about the woodcutter who sups with Death.
The Hustler. Director Robert Rossen racks up an impressive total score in this tale of a young pool paladin (Paul Newman) who learns that character, meaning Old Champ Gleason, is more important than talent.
TELEVISION
Wed., Nov. 15
The Bob Newhart Show (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.).* The young master comic in skits and monologues. Color.
The United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Cliff Robertson, Paul McGrath and Salome Jens in a play by Robert Alan Aurthur about a onetime child prodigy who has become a recluse.
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Deadeye Dave draws a bead on credit buying in the U.S. and TV commercials abroad.
Thurs., Nov. 16
At the Source (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Hugh Gaitskell, head of the British Labor Party, is interviewed in his office in London.
Fri., Nov. 17
Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait
(NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Using the artist's drawings and paintings, film clips of the backgrounds of his life, and his own words, the program has Martin Gabel as narrator and Lee J. Cobb speaking the lines of Van Gogh. Color.
Sat., Nov. 18
Update (NBC, noon to 12:30 p.m.). Robert Abernethy's news show for teen agers.
Sun., Nov. 19
The Nation's Future (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Harrison S. Brown, professor of geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, thinks that the U.S. could not survive an all-out nuclear attack. He debates the subject with Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Second of two parts on guerrilla warfare as taught by the U.S. Army.
Theater 62 (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Second in a series of live dramas adapted from bygone screenplays. This one is Intermezzo, with Ingrid Thulin, Jean Pierre Aumont and Teresa Wright.
Mon., Nov. 20
Expedition (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). An Austro-German exploring team goes into a secluded valley in the kingdom of Hunza in the Himalayas.
Ben Casey (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The Paul Bunyan of neurosurgery is up to his lobes in excitement as he does professional battle with a female pediatrician over the treatment of a patient.
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Charlton Heston, Eddie Foy Jr., Dick Button, Betty Johnson, Richard Kiley, Comedians Bob and Ray, and Gene Barry in a musical special with gobble gobble gobble as the leitmotiv.
THEATER
On Broadway
The Complaisant Lover, by Graham Greene. A frothily amusing triangle play about a dentist, his wife, and the other man she picks to balance her emotional diet. A fine, ingratiating cast headed by Michael Redgrave skates elegantly over occasional stretches of thin ice in the writing.
An Evening with Yves Montand flows as naturally and attractively through the singer's Paris as the Seine. Montand has a bedroom voice, but he can also mimic, clown, and act with a barometric sensitivity of mood.
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott, marks the Broadway spot where a superior mystery thriller may be found. In the course of a suspenseful evening, Playwright Knott (Dial "M" for Murder) shows that it takes almost as much skill to write the perfect crime as to commit it.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is put together as precisely as a fine watch by the jeweler of U.S. musicomedy jokesmiths, Abe Burrows. As the up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse is the funniest ploy-boy in the history of officemanship.
A Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'ldiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. Between them, Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau keep the winy wit at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature, and pour it to a farce connoisseur's taste.
Milk and Honey flows, in exuberant song and dance, out of a fresh ethnic locale, Israel. Comedienne Molly Picon and Singers Robert Weede and Mimi Benzell star with elan, but the plot is strictly matzo-ball soup opera.
From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik boy.
The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. One of Britain's most gifted young playwrights plants two brothers and a scurvy, aging tramp in a junk-cluttered room, where they become entwined in an ambiguous relationship of spite, pride, dependence and rejection that richly epitomizes the wayward condition of man.
Off Broadway
Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. A jam session of ideas recorded by that master improviser, G.B.S., back in 1910. With a knowledgeable band of actors handling the lines, the bounce is still there.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Complete Ronald Firbank. The collected fiction--all clockwork nightingales and silver cobwebs--of an ineffable British fantast whose stories have delighted a small set of admirers for some 40 years.
The Great Forgery, by Edith Simon. The hero of this ironical novel, a scruffy old painter who forges a Holbein to show the art experts up as Philistines, is a fine, randy character who bears a strong resemblance to Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. No biography could replace Boswell's, but this one, written four years before Bozzy's and then chased out of print by literary feudists, is well worth the time of Johnson fans.
The Coming Fury, by Bruce Catton. Writing with felicity, the author has another go at the Civil War--this time providing a praiseworthy popular history of the issues and leaders at the war's outset.
Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. An overdetailed biography that is saved by its subject.
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. These two related novellas about the prodigious Glass family tell beautifully the story of Franny Glass's retreat from the dancing egos of the academic world to the frightening calm of religious obsession.
The Children of Sanchez, by Oscar Lewis. An extraordinary and moving documentary, in which each of five members of a Mexico City slum family tells of his fight for self-respect and love.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week)
2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (2)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (3)
4. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (4)
5. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (6)
6. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (10)
7. Spirit Lake, Kantor
8. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (9)
9. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (8)
10. Mila 18, Uris (5)
NONFICTION
1. The Making of the President 1960, White (1)
2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2)
3. Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (5)
4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (3)
5. The New English Bible (4)
6. The Age of Reason Begins, Will and Ariel Durant
7. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell
8. Promise at Dawn, Gary
9. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (6)
10. I Should Have Kissed Her More, King
* All times E.S.T.
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