Cinema
Money, Money, Money. Jean Gabin and a clutch of French comedians demonstrate that money is funny when it is funny money.
The Best of Enemies. A comedy of military errors, starring David Niven and Alberto Sordi as World War II officers who do practically everything but fight.
A Matter of WHO. Britain's Terry-Thomas plays a dewlapped bloodhound from the World Health Organization who goes bugling after a migratory virus and turns up the trail of a swindler.
War Hunt. The story of a struggle, played out in Korea, between two U.S.
soldiers: for one of them killing is wrong, for the other it is rite.
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. The young man is Hemingway, as he saw himself in the Nick Adams stories, which are here assembled in a charming, rambling, romantically melancholy tale of a boy attempting to get away from mother and become a man. Paul Newman, in a minor role, adds several impressive new wrinkles to Hollywood's standard portrait of a cauliflower ear.
Strangers in the City. Life in Spanish Harlem is explicitly examined in this intelligent social shocker written and directed by Rick Carrier.
Bird Man of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster gives his finest performance as Robert F.
Stroud, a murderer who became an ornithologist while in solitary confinement.
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about men--Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott in Country, Kirk Douglas in Brave --who attempt to forget the gall of the world in following the call of the wild.
Boccaccio '70. Eros in Italy, interpreted by three top Italian directors (Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti) and three top-heavy international stars (Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider).
The Concrete Jungle. A saxophoney blues mocks and mourns the rise and fall of the criminal hero in this jagged, jazzy British crime thriller.
The Notorious Landlady is Kim Novak, and her tenant, Jack Lemmon, does not ask for anything more until Scotland Yard, aided by Diplomat Fred Astaire, prods him into some horribly funny discoveries.
Lolita. Any resemblance between this film and the novel is accidental and inconsequential. The partners in this esthetic crime include Author-Scripter Nabokov, Director Stanley Kubrick and Co-Leads James Mason and Sue Lyon. Peter Sellers saves some scenes, and might have saved the movie if only he had been cast as Humbert.
TELEVISION
Wed., Aug. 22 Money Talks (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).--Third of a five-day series on U.S. econom ic problems. Parts 4 and 5 will be shown Aug. 23 and 24, 10-10:30 p.m.
Focus on America (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.).
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The history of a destroyer escort, U.S.S.
Coates, from its commissioning toward the end of World War II through its mothballing and recommissioning to its recent departure for a North Atlantic training cruise.
Thurs., Aug. 23
The Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A fresh summer musical show.
Sat., Aug. 25 Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC,
9-11 p.m.). No Highway in the Sky, an engrossing comedy-melodrama about a metallurgist who decides that metal fatigue is causing plane crashes, with James Stewart, Glynis Johns and Marlene Dietrich.
Sun., Aug. 26
The Catholic Hour (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). "A Day in the Life of Pope John XXIII," filmed in the Vatican by the Italian television network.
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Eleanor Roosevelt and Assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson discuss "Equal Pay for Equal Work."
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Women's National A.A.U. swimming and diving championships in Chicago.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The day-to-day events of the week before World War II started, including recordings made 23 years ago by Eric Sevareid in Paris, Edward R. Murrow in London and William L. Shirer in Berlin.
Mon., Aug. 27
The Riddle of the Lusitania (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). John Chancellor narrates this recall of the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania.
THEATER
Straw Hat
Boothbay Harbor, Me., Boothbay Playhouse: the U.S. premiere of A Clean Kill, a murder mystery from England, whose whodunits have become a major export.
Tamworth, N.H., The Barnstormers: two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, The Browning Version and Harlequinade.
Cambridge, Mass., Loeb Drama Center: Richard Wilbur's verse translation of Moliere's The Misanthrope.
Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Gale Storm, one of the many Wildcatters bringing in gushers this season.
New York City, New York Shakespeare Festival: King Lear, the third and final production of free Bard in the Park.
Mountainhome, Pa., Pocono Playhouse: Claudia McNeil playing the role she created on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun.
Philadelphia, Pa., Playhouse in the Park: Oscar-Winner (West Side Story) Rita Moreno in The Miracle Worker.
Gaithersburg, Md., Shady Grove Music Fair: The Tender Trap, with Red Buttons.
Warren, Ohio, Packard Music Hall: Flower Drum Song, with Juanita (Bloody Mary) Hall and Old Timer Ramon (BenHur) Novarro.
Highland Park, III., Music Theater: West Side Story, with Dorothy Dandridge.
St. Louis, Mo., Municipal Opera: Meredith Willson's Music Man.
Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: A Touch of Spring, a new play by Madeline Davidson and Maurice Glucher.
Monterey, Calif., Wharf Theater: Beatrice Kay and Allen Jenkins in Gypsy.
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Christopher Plummer's acting turn this season includes both Macbeth and Cyrano; also in the Stratford repertory: The Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest.
On Broadway
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Initially conceived by Plautus and cunningly performed by Zero Mostel, his fellow clowns and six delectable houris, this zany burlesquerie is good for high, low, and furrowed brows.
A Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. This is nonconformism's funniest hour on the current Broadway stage. The entire cast, headed by Jason Robards Jr., deserves an award.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye.
The personal chronicle of an idealistic writer who kept finding that even an exceptional talent was not enough to do justice to his vision of the world.
The Inheritors, by William Golding. In a fascinating display of imagination, the author of Lord of the Flies delves into prehistory to tell how a pathetic band of apelike Neanderthals is exterminated by a terrifying new breed--man himself.
Rocking the Boat, by Gore Vidal. A onetime boy novelist, now become playwright and part-time politician, shies a few rocks at an assortment of U.S. ideas and institutions.
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. An overlong but powerful novel shows off a sharp eye for irony and a fine ear for dialogue but fails to make the goings-on of the youthful characters seem significant.
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swin-nerton. In this excellent novel by an author who has never had the recognition he deserves, an eminent man of letters relives a literary feud with a dead rival and decides that the man was not so much his enemy as his friend.
The Reivers, by William Faulkner. A funny, gentle, entirely delightful last work.
Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis.
The sweat, as well as the spiritual anguish, of a famous saintly lifetime.
Best Sellers FICTION 1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2) 3. The Reivers, Faulkner (4) 4. Uhuru, Ruark (5) 5. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (3) 6., The Prize, Wallace (7) 7. Another Country, Baldwin (6) 8. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (8) 9. Letting Go, Roth (10) 10. Portrait in Fownstone, Auchincloss NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. One Man's Freedom, Williams (3) 4. Men and Decisions, Strauss (4) 5. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (9) 6. The Guns of August, Tuchman (5) 7. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (6) 8. In the Clearing, Frost (7) 9. Veeck--as in Wreck, Veeck (8) 10. Calories Don't Count, Taller
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