CINEMA

Days of Wine and Roses. Drunks are bores, but Jack Lemmon, wry on the rocks, is one of the most entertaining fellows who ever said cheers when he meant booze, and this is the best picture about alcoholism since The Lost Weekend (1945).

The Bad Sleep Well. Japan's Akira Kurosawa, probing relentlessly into a big corporate scandal, accomplishes a grisly biopsy of a cancer on the Japanese social body: bribery.

Night Is My Future. Sweden's Ingmar Bergman seldom warms the heart, but in 1947, when he made this burningly romantic little picture, he still had akvavit in his veins.

Who's Got the Action? Lana Turner, that's who. She plays a bride who makes book for her horseplaying husband, Dean Martin, in this modest attempt to improve an unpromising breed: the formula farce.

Eclipse. In this film, Director Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura) perfects his subtle and expressive language of film, but unfortunately he employs it to say the same hopeless things he always says about the human condition.

David and Lisa. In his first movie, made for less than $200,000, Director Frank Perry tells a heartrending, heartwarming tale of two psychotic adolescents (Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin) who find love at the bottom of the snake pit.

Lawrence of Arabia. Blood, sand and stars (Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy), with the help of a top director (David Lean) and a $10 million budget, make this the best superspectacle since Ben Hur.

TELEVISION

Wednesday, February 6 CBS Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer talks about his life from early days in Cologne to the present.

Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (the source play of My Fair Lady), with Julie Harris, James Donald and Gladys Cooper.

Friday, February 8

The Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Among the guests: Oscar Levant.

Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The week's top news event.

Saturday, February 9 Reading Room (CBS. 12:30-1 p.m.). Author-Editor Harry Golden talks about Carl Sandburg's Abe Lincoln Grows Up.

The Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tonight's theme: libel.

Sunday, February 10 Camera Three (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.).

A discussion of Alexander Pope.

Washington Report (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). With David Schoenbrun.

Directions '63 (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). A presentation of material excerpted from the diary of a Roman Catholic priest executed by the Nazis for treason in 1945.

Issues and Answers (ABC, 2:30-3 p.m.). Under Secretary of State George Ball talks about the internal difficulties of the Communist bloc and strains in the Western alliance.

Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Walter Heller, chairman of the President's economic advisers.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of the landings on the beachhead at Anzio, 1944. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who was there, comments.

The Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Highlights from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, with Roberta Peters, Nicolai Gedda, William Walker.

Monday, February 11 Eisenhower on Lincoln (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). In his Gettysburg study, Ike talks to Bruce Catton about Lincoln as a military commander in chief.

Tuesday, February 12 Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Huntley talks to the four satirical young Englishmen who constitute the cast of Beyond the Fringe.

THEATER

On Broadway The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is an iridescently enchanting, contagiously amusing evening in an 18th century drawing room. John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson top a superlative cast, and bring to the Broadway stage the unfamiliar glory of literate English spoken with wit, clarity and precision.

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams. A rich old clownish woman rages desperately against the good-night of death, until a Christ figure comforts her tormented soul. Hermione Baddeley plays the dying woman with blinding, blistering brilliance.

Little Me wears its high-polish frivolities with a sophisticated air. The chief fun-master of this musical is Sid Caesar, who clowns his way through seven roles with imperial abandon.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, detonates a shattering three-act marital explosion that, for savage wit and skill, is unparalleled in the recent annals of the U.S. stage.

Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people with satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery.

Tchin-Tchin. A man and a woman whose respective marriages have broken up want to stop the world and get off, and in their sad-amusing, absurdly unworldly way, they do. Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn are effulgent.

Off Broadway

The Establishment. Britain's Angry Young Men seem to have ceded the spitball concession to a younger lot of Mocking Young Men. It's mock mock mock all night long in this revue as a bouncy, agreeable quintet jives like carbon-copycats from Beyond the Fringe.

Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill. The arena stage is not a very intense setting for this lacerating drama of greed, incest and infanticide on a New

England farm, but Actors George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst pour the molten lava of passion over it.

The Dumbwaiter and The Collection are two one-acters by Britain's Harold Pinter, a playwriting terrorist who can conjure up menace with the easy authority of a Hitchcock, and pose Pirandellphic conundrums about the nature of truth and reality.

A Man's a Man. Is it right to brainwash a man if it makes him happy? Is the individual an anachronism in the 20th century? These are some of the questions posed with inventive theatricality in this 1926 play by Bertolt Brecht.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Underdogs, by Mariano Azuela. Mexico's bestselling novel of all time, just reissued in English, is a searing story of what happens to bewildered peasants buffeted by the hurricane of revolution.

March to Calumny, by Albert Biderman. Examining the behavior of captured G.I.s in Korea, a sociologist corrects the widespread impression that they were more easily brainwashed than other troops.

Diary of an Early American Boy, by Eric Sloane. The journal of a 15-year-old boy in the 1800s is an absorbing how-to-do-it book about a time when charity (and everything else) still began at home.

A Girl in Winter, by Philip Larkin. One of England's finest poets makes one lonely girl's story an echo of human isolation.

The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem, by Myrick Land. Feuding authors have a way with rude remarks about one another that even fishwives would envy, and, according to this book, nearly all the noted writers from Dickens and Thackeray to Hemingway and Gertrude Stein were feuding.

The Sand Pebbles, by Richard McKenna. Publishing his first novel at 49, an ex-Navy enlisted man tells how a ship's crew degenerates behind a facade of spit and polish, then finds itself again.

Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. A brilliant guide to the nightmarish parables of a writer who saw individual man as a helpless insect lost in the mass world he has helped create.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (2, last week)

2. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (1) 3. A Shade of Difference, Drury (3)

4. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (6)

5. The Cape Cod Lighter, O'Hara (4) 6. Genius, Dennis (5)

7. $100 Misunderstanding, Cover (7)

8. Where Love Has Gone, Robbins

9. The Prize, Wallace (10)

10. The Thin Red Line, Jones (9)

NONFICTION

1. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (1)

2. Silent Spring, Carson (4)

3. My Life in Court, Nizer (8)

4. The Points of My Compass, White (3)

5. Final Verdict, St. Johns (6)

6. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (2)

7. Letters from the Earth, Twain (9)

8. The Pyramid Climbers, Packard (10)

9. Renoir, My Father, Renoir

10. Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Schulz (5)

* All times E.S.T.

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