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The Nun’s Story. Audrey Hepburn, as a Roman Catholic nun who decides that it is love of self rather than love of God that has driven her to—and from—her calling, is too antiseptic in her performance, but the story is a natural and the camera work almost dazingly beautiful.
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera but nothing can prevent the show’s songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey.
Middle of the Night. Paddy Chayefsky’s highly effective saga about a lonely September widower (Fredric March) and a neurotic May girl (Kim Novak).
Street of Shame (Japanese). A moving study of prostitution in Japan.
The Rabbit Trap. A fable about a plodding father’s effort to hold his son’s respect, starring Ernie (Marty) Borgnine, who stands in as much danger as maple syrup of being typecast as lovable sap.
Pork Chop Hill. Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), working from S. L. A. Marshall’s Korean battle report, tells the heart-racking story of a latter-day Thermopylae.
Gideon of Scotland Yard. Cinemactor Jack Hawkins as a henpecked inspector in a fresh and frantic thriller.
Ask Any Girl. David Niven tries some motivational research on Shirley Mac Laine, a Raggedy Antic charmer.
The Roof (Italian). Sociology plus romance: how a housing shortage affects the love life of the Roman poor, shown with gentle realism.
The Diary of Anne Frank. One of Hollywood’s masterpieces.
Some Like It Hot. The falls are strictly prat as Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dress up like girls; luckily enough, so does Marilyn Monroe.
Room at the Top. A tragicomedy of Angry Young Manners about a Julien Sorel of the welfare state. Sometimes embarrassingly close to caricature, it remains one of the best British pictures in years.
Compulsion. Leopold and Loeb’s brutal “crime of the century” re-created in a tight, suspenseful film.
TELEVISION
Wed., July 8
The Dave King Show (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Britain’s ambassador of amiability peering brightly at a muddy world (color).
Thurs., July 9
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of Seven Against the Wall, a dramatization of how Al Capone spent one of his St. Valentine’s Days.
Who Pays? (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Mike Wallace, a onetime tiger whose teeth have been removed one by one during frequent trips to the bank, turns up as M.C. of a new panel show. With Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Celeste Holm and Gene Klavan.
Sat., July 11
Reckoning (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Perry Mason’s summer replacement has to do with the tribulations of an off-duty cop (Paul Douglas) who has arrested an influential playboy for speeding.
Sun., July 12
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Rebroadcast of Trial at Nürnberg, narrated by Walter Cronkite.
Alfred Hitchco*ck Presents (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Claude Rains as a bibulous actor who turns to blackmail when the local saloon cuts off his credit.
Mon., July 13
Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Pete’s heart should be in this, since it is a girl friend of his girl friend who seems to be finding all the trouble.
The Alcoa Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Comedian Jack Carson, as a brash wildcatter, struggles with an even wilder urchin.
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Drama set in the prizefight ring, with Rory Calhoun as a manager betrayed by the protégé he brought to the big time.
Tues., July 14
The Andy Williams Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Among the guests: Flower Drum Singer Miyoshi Umeki.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun. An impressive first play about a South Side Chicago Negro family.
J.B. Job in modern dress and stress.
My Fair Lady and The Music Man are the class of the musicomedy field, with Flower Drum Song a few lengths off the pace.
Off Broadway
Mark Twain Tonight! Hal Holbrook, 34, portraying Mark Twain, 70, in a brilliant solo.
Once Upon a Mattress. Fun and frolic with the princess and the pea.
Straw Hat
Brunswick, Me., Summer Playhouse: Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon’s Broadway blended with the best of Tin Pan Alley.
Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: Hilary (new play), with Joan Fontaine.
Jones Beach, L.I., Marine Theater: Song of Norway, Edvard Grieg’s music; the park commission’s fireworks.
Westbury, L.I., Music Fair: Say, Darling, a musical about a musical, with Wally Cox.
Highland Park, Ill., Tenthouse Theater: Born Yesterday, with Peggy Cass.
St. Louis, Mo., Municipal Opera: Rio Rita, over-the-border banditry still bouncy with the music of the ’20s.
Denver, Colo., Red Rocks Music Festival: The Girl of the Golden West, with Eleanor Steber. At the City Auditorium: West Side Story, with the original cast. At the Central City Opera Festival: Die Fledermaus alternates with The Ballad of Baby Doe.
Sacramento, Calif., Music Circus: Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate.
Portland, Ore., Portland State College Auditorium: a dramatization of James Thurber’s and E. B. White’s Is Sex Necessary?
BOOKS
Best Reading
Fire at Sea, by Thomas Gallagher. Was the flaming death of the cruise ship Morro Castle a horrendous case of arson? Reporter Gallagher files a fascinating, if circ*mstantial, brief against the ship’s chief radio operator.
The Great Impostor, by Robert Crichton. The incredible biography of multi-phrenic Fred Demara Jr., who has been a Navy surgeon, teacher, prison warden, and a member of half a dozen religious orders.
Robert Rogers of the Rangers, by John R. Cuneo. An able account of the deadly bushfighter who made his commandolike Rangers the most feared unit in the French and Indian War.
The Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric. An elegiac novel by a fine Yugoslav writer distills 300 years of his land’s history.
The Way It Was, by Harold Loeb. The original of Robert Cohn in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises tells why Pamplona in 1925 was a fiesta to remember.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. An all-but-Proustian remembrance of things past, when the future queen of existentialism was a proper, fretful and insomniac student princess.
The Cool World, by Warren Miller. A gripping tale of a teen-age hoodlum from Harlem.
The Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. One of Merrill’s Marauders dusts off the saga of that legendary fighting crew.
The Zulu and the Zeide, by Dan Jacobson. First-rate short stories, most of them set in South Africa, in which the failings of whites are shown mercilessly against a black background.
Day Before Yesterday, by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. A warm biography of T.R.’s son, who failed to live up to his father’s greatness, but added honor to the Roosevelt name in two world wars.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (1)*
2. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lawrence (3)
3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (2)
4. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (4)
5. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5)
6. Lolita, Nabokov (6)
7. Celia Garth, Bristow (9)
8. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (7)
9. Command the Morning, Buck 10. The Lion, Kessel
NONFICTION
1. The Status Seekers, Packard (1)
2. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (2)
3. The Years with Ross, Thurber (5)
4. Only in America, Golden (3)
5. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (4)
6. My Brother Was an Only Child, Douglas (6)
7. The House of Intellect, Barzun (7)
8. Senator Joe McCarthy, Rovere
9. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (9)
10. Folk Medicine, Jarvis
* Position on last week’s list
