Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 11, 1961

CINEMA

The Honeymoon Machine. This is the Hollywood machine in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out a slick, quick, funny comedy about sailors, girls, a roulette table and a computing machine. With Steve McQueen and Paula Prentiss.

Fate of a Man (in Russian). Sergei Bondarchuk, a top Soviet film maker, directs his own powerful performance in this freely sentimental story of a soldier who is reduced to flotsam by war, then made whole again by the love of an orphan.

Misty. Good fun for the slingshot set; the story of two children who plot to buy a wild pony.

The Parent Trap. Cute, 13-year-old identical twins (Hayley Mills, in both cases), who have been separated since birth, connive to rehitch their divorced parents, with results that are surprisingly entertaining.

Secrets of Women (in Swedish). Ingmar Bergman’s first comedy; he sneers with mortal effect at the satisfied husbands of four dissatisfied wives.

TELEVISION

Wed., Aug. 9

The Jimmy Durante Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).*Tonight Schnozz studies “The Evolution of the American Husband.” Guests: Bob Hope, Garry Moore, Janice Rule.

Thurs., Aug. 10

Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Highlights in the racing career of Jockey Eddie Arcaro.

Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Episodes from the screen life of William S. Hart, first of the cowboy heroes.

Joint Appearance (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A new, live program that brings together persons with conflicting views tonight presents John Bailey, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and William E. Miller, Republican national chairman.

Fri., Aug. 11

Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The show visits the homes of Actor Efrem (77 Sunset Strip) Zimbalist Jr. and Actress Jane Fonda. Repeat.

Sat., Aug. 12

Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). Championship motorboat races, inboard and outboard, from Pitcon, Ont.

Sun., Aug. 13

Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). A monologue dramatization of the late Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus’ novel, The Fall.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The grapes of wrath are pressed again as Walter Cronkite & Co. revisit The Dust Bowl, interviewing farmers who stayed with the land and are still there.

Tues., Aug. 15

Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A visit to the Air Force’s engineering development center near Tullahoma, Tenn., and the giant wind tunnels that test rocket engines.

*All times E.D.T.

THEATER

Straw Hat

Skowhegan, Me., Lakewood Theater: Orson Bean and Julia Meade in Send Me No Flowers.

Boothbay, Me., Playhouse: Trial and Error, a new play by Kenneth Horne.

Kennebunkport, Me., Playhouse: Carousel.

Dennis, Mass., Cape Playhouse: Jane Wyatt and Billy Gray, who play mother and son in TV’s Father Knows Best, repeat the relationship in Terence Rattigan’s considerably less homespun O Mistress Mine.

Beverly, Mass., North Shore Music Theater: Met Soprano Mary Curtis-Verna in The Great Waltz.

Wallingford, Conn., Oakdale Musical Theater: Gisele MacKenzie in the Broadway hit The King and I.

Buffalo, Melody Fair Tent Theater: Old Stone Face Buster Keaton in Once Upon a Mattress.

Westbury, N.Y., Music Fair: On the Town, the Bernstein-Comden-Green hit musical based on Jerome Robbins’ ballet Fancy Free.

New Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: A Man Around the House, a new play by Joseph Julian.

Philadelphia, Playhouse in the Park: the première of Turn on the Night, a new play by Collaborators Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (also responsible for Inherit the Wind and Auntie Mame).

Moylan, Pa., Hedgerow Theater: Manhattan’s off-Broadway Circle in the Square group in Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real.

Eagles Mere, Pa., Playhouse: Edmond Rostand’s classic romance, Cyrano de Bergerac.

Ardentown, Del., Robin Hood Theater: Jean Anouilh’s Time Remembered.

Warren, Ohio, Packard Music Hall: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, with Hugh (one under Paar) Downs.

Mount Vernon, Ind., Indiana University Showboat Majestic: Anchored in the Ohio River, the showboat is presenting Don Marquis’ vintage comedy, The Old Soak.

Chicago, Drury Lane Theater: Charles Coburn in You Can’t Take It with You.

Dallas, State Fair Music Hall: Billion Dollar Baby, with Eileen Rodgers and Reginald Denny.

Monterey, Calif., Wharf Theater and Opera House: Zazu Pitts in The Curious Savage.

Stratford, Ont., Stratford Festival: In addition to playing Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry VIII, Coriolanus and The Pirates of Penzance, the festival presents The Canvas Barricade, a new comedy by Donald Lamont Jack.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Household Ghosts, by James Kennaway. An adulterous and neurotic triangle—young wife, indifferent husband, destructive and cynical lover—delineated with a superbly controlled mixture of humor and sadness.

Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. “Who clipped the lion’s wings?” asked T. S. Eliot. In this satirical novel about the decline of the British Empire in Africa, a former colonial official answers the question with a masterful spoof.

The Making of the President 1960, by Theodore H. White. An excellent journalistic re-creation of one of the most fascinating campaigns in history.

The Death of Tragedy, by George Steiner. A distinguished critic examines the question of why real tragedy seems impossible today, and how that condition came about.

The Spanish Civil War, by Hugh Thomas. The best, least-partisan history of the desperate conflict.

The Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtrooms by a novelist (The Legacy) and writer of extraordinary insight, who shows how, in various countries, man treats man in the grip of the law.

Nobody Knows My Name, by James Baldwin. The author, who describes himself as an “ambitious, abnormally intelligent, and hungry black cat,” rakes his stylish claws over some of his—and the white man’s—color problems.

Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. As a thinker, Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better.

The House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author’s effective, soft-focus style.

Memed My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal. An appealing Turkish first novel tells the story of an Anatolian village lad who grows up to be a modern Robin Hood.

Best Sellers

( √previously included in TIME’S

choice of Best Reading)

FICTION

1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)*

√ 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2)

3. Mila 18, Uris (4)

4. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (3)

5. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (5)

6. The Edge of Sadness, O’Connor (6)

7. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (7)

8. Rembrandt, Schmitt

9. Mothers and Daughters, Hunter (8)

10. A Talent for Loving, Condon

NONFICTION

√ 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)

2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2)

√ 3. The Making of the President 1960,White (3)

√4. The New English Bible (4)

√ 5. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (6)

6. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (9)

√ 7. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (5)

8. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (8)

9. Firsthand Report, Adams (7)

10. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Hauser

*Position on last week’s list.