Cinema: Sep. 8, 1961

Blood and Roses. Filmed at the Emperor Hadrian’s villa outside Rome under the direction of Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman), this eerie tale of a lady vampire is the most subtle, careful and beautiful of the current crop of chillers. With Mel Ferrer.

Homicidal. Made in imitation of Hitchcock’s Psycho, it surpasses its model in structure, suspense and sheer nervous drive.

The Honeymoon Machine. It is really the Hollywood machine, in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out the slick, quick, funny film for which it was designed—in this case about three young people who use a computer to assault the casino in Venice.

Fate of a Man. Among the best of the Soviet films seen in the U.S. during the current three-year-old cultural exchange, this one tells the agonizing story of a village carpenter whose life is shattered by war. Based on a story by Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov.

The Parent Trap. The delightful story of teen-age twins who try to kid their divorced parents into remarrying—both twins played by Hayley Mills, biggest child star since Temple and a better actress than Shirley was.

The Sand Castle. In a charming but not overly cute story, a little boy builds a castle of sand so stunning that it merits inclusion in Sir Bannister Fletcher’s His tory of Architecture, while the camera roams in satiric asides among the flesh castles strewn on the beach.

TELEVISIOri

Thurs., Sept. 7

Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-Climaxing a nine-day tournament at Normandale Stadium, Portland, Ore.: the women’s softball world series.

Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). One of the last of the all-silent films, 1928’s Garden of Eden.

Fri., Sept. 8

Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The show visits Actress Mamie van Doren at her home in Hollywood, French Hairdresser Antoine at his apartment in Paris.

Sat., Sept. 9

Wide World of Sports (ABC, 4-7 p.m.). Dallas Texans v. San Diego Chargers in a preseason American Football League game, during which the coaches, defensive captains and offensive quarterbacks will be bugged with transistor microphones so that viewers can hear all the strategic grunts.

National Singles Tennis Championships (NBC, 5:30-7 p.m.). Semifinals, from Forest Hills, N.Y. Color.

Miss America Pageant (CBS, 9:30 p.m.-12 midnight). The breathless finale of the annual contest, from Atlantic City, N.J.

Sun., Sept. 10

American Football League (ABC, 3:30 p.m. to finish). San Diego Chargers v. Dallas Texans in Dallas, unbugged this time and in regular league play. (In the Mountain Standard Time Zone, ABC substitutes the game between the Denver Broncos and the Buffalo Bills.)

National Singles Tennis Championships (NBC, 5:30-7 p.m.). The finals, from Forest Hills, N.Y. Color.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). From his aviation experiences in World War I to his suicide at Nurnberg in 1946, the program traces the career of No. 2 Nazi Hermann Goring. Repeat.

Accent (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). A tour of the ruins of the Roman seaport Ostia Antica, with Yale Archaeologist-Classicist Dr. Frank Brown.

Candid Camera (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Dorothy Collins poses as a motorist in distress, waving down passing suckers to help her change a flat, asking each one to please work quietly to avoid disturbing her husband, who is asleep in the back seat. Repeat.

Tues., Sept. 12

Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Battling against forest fires in Southern California.

Purex Special (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). An excellent Project 20 treatment, using film clips and still pictures, of the life of Will Rogers. Repeat.

The Uncommitted (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A special report on the neutral nations’ conference at Belgrade.

THEATER

On Broadway While the new shows are already trying out in the sticks, some of the better old ones have managed to stick through the summer. Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr’s Mary, Mary continues to sail along with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney’s raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York’s Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers and Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady.

BOOKS

Best Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard, and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants, and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto, but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself.

The Children of Sanchez, by Oscar Lewis. A tape-recorded documentary in which each of five members of a slum-dwelling Mexico City family tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality. Far from the dusty aridities of social science, the book offers a powerful, touching and intimate view of the long, and far from simple, annals of the poor.

An End to Glory, by Pierre-Henri Simon. Writing an eloquent antiwar tract, in the form of a novel, the author tells the agony of a French professional soldier who, in Algeria, comes to believe that his is an ignoble role in a shameful war.

The Road Past Mandalay, by John Masters. Another face of war—the pride and nobility of fighting men at their best—is the concern of the author, who tells, more convincingly than in any of his novels, of his World War II service with the Indian army in the East.

Men and Women, by Erskine Caldwell. A collection of the best short stories of an author whose touch with humor and horror is superb, and who deserves better than his reputation as a drugstore patent-fiction merchant.

Collected Poems, by Robert Graves. The bent-nosed Jove of Majorca has sometimes used prose as a pot in which to boil bestselling historicals (/, Claudius), but poetry is his sacred urn. On it, he engraves the moods and passions of love, childhood, and the classic past.

A Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this author has a Chaplinesque flair for comic mischief. In her latest novel, an aging 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier’s ivory tower.

An American Visitor, by Joyce Gary. Countless African novels draw their blacks and whites from paper-thin headlines. Gary, who fought in Africa in World War 1 and served there as a magistrate, brilliantly drew his characters from life. This early novel (1933) is topped only by his own memorable Mister Johnson.

The Way to Colonos, by Kay Cicellis. A young Greek writer has borrowed characters and situations loosely from Sophocles, and the result is a trio of remarkably good short stories, each touched by tragedy.

Best Sellers ( / previously included in TIME’S choice of Best Reading)

FICTION 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy,

Stone (1)-f 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2)

3. Mila 18, Uris (3)

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

5. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (7)

6. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (5)

7. The Edge of Sadness, O’Connor (6)

8. Rembrandt, Schmitt (8)

9. A Man in a Mirror, Llewellyn 10. Mothers and Daughters,

Hunter (9)

NONFICTION / 1. The Making of the President 1960, White (1) 2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (3) 3. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (4) / 4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (2) / 5. The New English Bible (5) / 6. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (6) / 7. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (7) 8. America — Too Young to Die! DeSeversky »—’ 9. The Spanish Civil War, Thomas (8) »-‘ 10. Nobody Knows My Name, Baldwin

-A11 times E.D.T. -Position on last week’s list.