CINEMA

A Summer to Remember. The Soviet film industry, which has recently been testing products of high entertainment yield and low propaganda fallout (Ballad of a Soldier, Fate of a Man), now releases a warm and wonderfully funny story of a little boy's life with father in contemporary Russia.

The Kitchen. Too many cooks cannot spoil this spluttering slumgullion of socialism and melodrama, heated to a rolling boil by British Playwright Arnold Wesker.

Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the Skye terrier who, a century ago, won for himself the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.

West Side Story. Despite some sick-sick-sick pseudosociology, Broadway's long-running choreoperetta makes a big, fast, exciting cinemusical.

Loss of Innocence. A thriller of sensibility, based on Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer, celebrates a sophisticated rite of puberty in a French chateau.

Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignee expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with both 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 and discovers the inevitable consequences.

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. 22 Bell & Howell Close-Up! (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.).*Interviews and film clips, made in West Berlin and West Germany, sampling German attitudes about the German crisis.

The Bob Newhart Show (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). A master comic in a not always masterly show.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Dramatized study of the North American Air Defense Command.

David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Tonight's subjects are modern poetry and rock 'n' roll as practiced abroad.

Thurs., Nov. 23

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC, 10 a.m. to noon). A program of circus acts is thrown in.

Thanksgiving Parade Jubilee (CBS, 10:30-11:55 a.m.). Curb-siding at the big parades in three cities: Detroit, Philadelphia and New York.

CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The second program drawn from Dwight D. Eisenhower's informal taped comments on the U.S. presidency and his Administration.

Fri., Nov. 24

U. S. Grant, an Improbable Hero (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A special NBC portrait of Grant, using old still pictures, some live acting, and new footage of battle locations.

Crossing the Threshold (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Step-by-step analysis of a manned orbital flight, including films of the trips of the Russian astronauts, Gagarin and Titov, released for the first time.

Sat., Nov. 25

Update (NBC, noon to 12:30 p.m.). Robert Abernethy's news program for teenagers.

Sun., Nov. 26

Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). First of a two-part documentary about how the people of Denmark saved almost all of the 8,000 Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in World War II.

Wisdom (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). A conversation with Bertrand Russell. Repeat.

THEATER

On Broadway Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky. A lustrous morality play about the simple farmer chosen by the Lord to lead the Israelites to victory over the Midianites. Fredric March as the Lord and Douglas Campbell as Gideon are, to put it mildly, magnificent. Chayefsky's vocabulary spirals off into rhetoric and his reasoning is sometimes flawed, but his theme is enduring--man's relationship to God.

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. An ingratiating cast headed by Michael Redgrave skates elegantly over patches 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 (Dial "M" for Murder), marks the Broadway spot where a superior mystery thriller may be found.

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 ployboy in the history of officemanship.

A Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. 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.

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 an 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. Spirit Lake, Kantor (7)

6. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter (6)

7. Mila 18, Uris (10)

8. Clock Without Hands, McCullers

9. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (5)

10. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (9)

NONFICTION

1. The Making of the President 1960, White (1)

2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2)

3. Citizen Hearst, Swanberg (3)

4. Living Free, Adamson

5. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (4)

6. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (9)

7. I Should Have Kissed Her More, King (10)

8. The Age of Reason Begins, Will and Ariel Durant (6)

9. Promise at Dawn, Gary (8)

10. Kidnap, Waller

*All times E.S.T.

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