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From the ashes of Hiroshima and the revivifying love of a French actress and a Japanese architect, Director Alain Resnais has woven the acknowledged masterpiece of the New Wave in French cinema—a film that is part elegy, part spring song. Flame Over India. An ingenious scriptwriter tricks out a trek through the rebellious India of 1905 with such assorted jaws of death, nicks of time, and ours-not-to-reason-why, that the eastern may become as popular as the western. PoHyanna. Walt Disney’s best live-actor movie to date sticks to the original lachrymose plot like warm icing to a sugar bun, tells the simpering story of the horrid little prig (intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills) whose armor of cheerfulness and joy remains impenetrable to the sniffly end. The Battle of the Sexes. Thurber’s The Catbird Seat, wondrously transmogrified by a queer breed of cat: Actor Peter Sellers, as a timorous Edinburgh clerk, is determined to murder an American efficiency expert (Constance Cummings) who threatens his inky way of life. I’m AH Right, Jack. Sellers again, looking like a fanatical potato as he plays a zealous shop steward in a satire whose edges nick both capital and labor. Conspiracy of Hearts. In a film that uses every known device to strap its audience with suspense, Lilli Palmer is the mother superior of an Italian convent where Jewish children—escapees from a Nazi concentration camp—are sheltered. TELEVISION Wed., May 18 Presidential Mission (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.)\* John Daly and his ABC team at the summit conference. Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). Rod Serling’s In the Presence of Mine Enemies takes place in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. With Charles Laughton, Arthur Kennedy and Sam Jaffe. Thurs., May 19 Presidential Mission (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Summit. Buick Electra Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The series dramatizing the works of Ernest Hemingway continues with The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio. The 1933 story of a wounded man in a Montana hospital, in which Hemingway makes one of his rare philosophical observations: “Bread is the opium of the people.” With Richard Conte, Eleanor Parker. Journey to Understanding (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Frank McGee, Joseph C. Harsch, Edwin Newman at the summit. Fri., May 20 Eyewitness to History (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). David Schoenbrun, Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith and others at the summit too. Sat., May 21 The Preakness (CBS, 5:30-6 p.m.). From Maryland’s Pimlico comes the second of the Triple Crown horse races. John Gunther’s High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Back inside Africa. Journey to Understanding (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Summit. Sun., May 22 College News Conference (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Guest: G. Mennen Williams. The Catholic Hour (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). American morality is under scrutiny. World Championship Golf (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gary Middlecoff and Jim Ferree at Harder Hall, Sebring, Fla. Presidential Mission (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Summit. Time Present: Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). More summitry. The George Gobel Show (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Guest: Lola Albright. Mon., May 23 The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Walter Slezak and Siobhan McKenna in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White. Tues., May 24 The Garry Moore Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Carol Haney, Alan King. THEATER Bye Bye Birdie. A rampageous musical about a pelvoid crooner (Dick Gautier) and the howling but engaging pack of teen-agers who pursue him. As staged by Gower Champion, the show is fresh, playful, lustily breezy. With Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Kay Medford. Duel of Angels. The last of Jean Giraudoux’s plays (adapted by Christopher Fry) is an ironic toast of farewell; cold champagne served by a cold, elegant hand. As an errant lady who convinces a too-pure Lucrece that she has been raped, Vivien Leigh is at her best. The Best Man. In a hectic political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with dexterity, but since no issue is ever mentioned, they could just as well be competing for the presidency of a cement company. Toys in the Attic. A ne’er-do-well comes into money, distressing the women who have fed him—and fed on his weakness. Playwright Lillian Hellman writes with all her old astringency, and the actors—Jason Robards Jr., Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth, Anne Revere—are excellent. The Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky’s thoroughly original exercise in exorcism. The Miracle Worker. William Gibson’s dramatization of Helen Keller’s childhood is memorable theater, largely because of the rousing performances of Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft. Off Broadway Henry IV, Part 2\. The Phoenix Theater proves that the adventures of Falstaff, Prince Hal and Mistress Quickly deserve more attention than they generally get. The Prodigal. In one of the season’s most original works, Playwright Jack Richardson turns the Orestes legend into a mocking, modern statement. The Balcony. To France’s Jean Genet, the world is a great, squamous bordello, and his play argues with convincing irony in support of this notion. BOOKS Best Reading The Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth novel in the author’s projected eleven-volume cycle on Britain’s New Men uses a scientific scandal to set off a typically reflective, genteel — and slow-moving — discussion of one of the dilemmas of power: how to judge not, yet still do justice. Venetian Red, by P. M. Pasinetti. The canals of Venice are mocking mirrors of human folly in this wry first novel, whose author weaves his comments on Italy into a tale of two fascinating families. Food for Centaurs, by Robert Graves. In a remarkably varied collection of poems, essays and stories, joyfully cantankerous Author Graves goatfoots it, in his words, at “full-speed in the wilder regions of my own, some say crazy, head.” The Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield. A curious novel in which the astrological notions of an old Polish countess are mixed with exuberant descriptions of Mexico’s sights and sounds; the result, happily, is a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics. The War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle: Vol. Ill, Salvation 1944-1946\. Written in bold, eloquent prose that serves as an admirable carriage for the author’s honesty and sense of destiny, this third and last volume of memoirs is a revealing testament to the man and his country. The Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. An ironic, moving, melancholy elegy to the last century’s aristocratic life — a major fictional creation. A Distant Trumpet, by Paul Horgan. The author sounds the charge across a well-described, wide-screen landscape as the U.S. cavalry once again pursues the Apache guerrilla Geronimo. The Roguish World of Dr. Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. A sparkling biography of the quack who became a millionaire with his radio-advertised promise that old men, through goat-gland implants, could become potent old menaces. The Kremlin, by David Douglas Duncan. A superb photographic study. Best Sellers FICTION 1\. Hawaii, Michener (1)\*Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3\. The Constant Image, Davenport (7) 4\. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (4) 5\. Ourselves to Know, O’Hara (6) 6\. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (3) 7\. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa 8\. Clea, Durrell (5) 9\. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to New York, Gallico 10\. Two Weeks in Another Town, Shaw (9) NONFICTION 1\. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1) 2\. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3\. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (3) 4\. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (4) 5\. Act One, Hart (7) 6\. I Kid You Not, Paar 7\. Grant Moves South, Catton (6) 8\. Born Free, Adamson (8) 9\. The Joy of Music, Bernstein 10\. 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