CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 8, 1959

Ask Any Girl. Jokes about Madison Avenue and motivational research—in this case employed to catch a husband for a girl as charming as Shirley MacLaine—are pretty stale, but Shirley manages to make many of them look fresh as daisies.

The Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy’s most formidable neorealists, Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini.

Room at the Top. The novel by John Braine, one of England’s Angry Young Men, has a plot about a social climber which is centuries old, but all the same it comes out one of the real British movie triumphs.

Alias Jesse James. Bob Hope hitting his funniest trail since The Paleface.

Compulsion. A tight, suspenseful film about the heinous crime and court trial of Leopold and Loeb.

The Diary of Anne Frank. A massive, enthralling masterpiece lovingly mounted by Producer-Director George Stevens.

Some Like It Hot. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis panting madly after Marilyn Monroe, but since all three are dressed as girls, the fun belongs entirely to the audience.

The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner’s novel disinfected, but still given the best movie treatment yet of any of his works.

Aparajito (Indian). Part two, following Father Panchali, of Director Satyajit Ray’s brilliantly illuminating trilogy on the miserable yet hopeful condition of a poverty-stricken Indian family.

TELEVISION

Wed., June 3,

The Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-Dave King, a British pantomimist with style, wit, and a habit of breaking into agreeable song, has taken over for Milton Berle.

Holiday, U.S.A. (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Versatile Folk Singer-Actor Burl Ives sounds off on American song styles from 19th century tinkle-tankle to the latest Broadway specimens.

Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.-conclusion). Champion Joe Brown and Paoli Rossi for the lightweight title.

Thurs., June 4

I Take Thee (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A “news special” about love and marriage in the U.S. today.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Benito Mussolini did not quite make it to the Swiss border with the $60 million he plucked from the Italian treasury as the Allies advanced, but here is a dramatization of how close he came. Starring as // Duce: Nehemiah Persoff.

Fri., June 5

Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Excerpts from three of Old Master Walt’s Academy-Award-winning cartoons.

Sat., June 6

The Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Last of the season for the human

*All times E.D.T. tranquilizer; guests are Tony Bennett, Teresa Brewer, and the Four Lads, who will fill in for Como this summer.

Sun., June 7

The Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Baritone John Raitt and Songstress Janet Blair in a pleasant little sing-’em-up.

Mon., June 8

Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). James Thurber’s story Christabel, about a little girl whose dog eats all the heads off the asparagus in daddy’s suburban garden.

Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Lucy and Desi charge off to the north woods with Howard Duff and Ida Lupino.

THEATER

On Broadway

A Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family lives in a tenement that is rarely touched by the sun, but the glow of passion, humor, fear and stirring dreams lights up each character in this deeply felt, tautly crafted first play.

Redhead. A theatrical thoroughbred (Gwen Verdon) carries this plow-jockey musical into the winner’s circle.

J.B. Poet Archibald MacLeish introduces a modern grey flannel Job reduced to sackcloth.

La Plume de Ma Tante. A crew of madcap Frenchmen have built a better laughtrap, and theatergoers are beating a path to the box-office door.

The Flower Drum Song. R. & H. have skimped on the ingredients this time, but the entertainment is still flavorsome.

A Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O’Neill casting a theatrical illusion of life around the idea that life is illusion.

The P’easure of His Company. In the only well-appointed drawing room on Broadway, a lion (Cyril Ritchard) of the vanishing playboy breed scares off his daughter’s mousy fiance.

It is not only familiarity, but superiority, that breeds content with My Fair Lady, West Side Story and The Music Man, the most delightful trio of musicals on Broadway.

Off Broadway

Mark Twain Tonight! Premature old age descends nightly on Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the great humorist as a platform lecturer of 70.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Kenneth Grahame, by Peter Green. A sympathetic, well-written biography of the eccentric British banker who never grew up and wrote a classic children’s book, The Wind in the Willows.

The Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. A lively discourse on the changing fashions in man’s view of the universe, from Ptolemy’s epicycles to the post-Newtonian continuum.

Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth. Six stories about social D.P.s—Jews trying to belong in the Gentile world.

War Memoirs, by Charles de Gaulle. The author himself is the predestined hero of the second volume (1942-44) of his war memoirs.

Du Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the last and most appealing of Louis XV’s “lefthanded queens” of France.

The Straw Man, by Jean Giono. The hero is manipulated, puppetlike, in this sardonic tale of revolt in 19th century Italy, but sometimes the strings pull both ways.

Time Walked, by Vera Panova. A Russian novelist’s warm account of the commonplace wonders in the life of a six-year-old boy.

The House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. A tidal wave of artiness, scientism and wrong-headed egalitarianism, warns Columbia University’s Barzun, threatens to engulf the U.S.

King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. The slam-bang biography of an elephant-sized royal gnat named Mithradates, who buzzed about Rome’s flanks for years.

Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. Billed as the master talker’s last book; urbane conversation about Goethe, a swami, an archbishop, and assorted other people and problems.

Endurance, by Alfred Lansing. A grimly moving account of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1915 Antarctic expedition.

The Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. The grueling World War II adventures of Merrill’s Marauders, thoughtfully told by a veteran of the unit.

The Notion of Sin, by Robert McLaughlin. Some odd fish on view on a well-conducted tour through Manhattan’s gin-filled aquariums.’

Mountolive, by Lawrence Durell. A rousing novel of red herring-do in the back alleys of Alexandria.

The King’s War: 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. A vivid scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead.

Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An eccentric New Zealand woman whose high passion is teaching appears as the heroine of a warm and well-told novel.

Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. A skillful, honest and haunting love story.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (1)*

2. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (3)

3. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lawrence (7)

4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (2)

5. Lolita, Nabokov (5)

6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (4)

7. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (6)

8. The Charioteer, Renault

9. The Third Choice, Janeway 10. Pioneer, Go Home! Powell

NONFICTION

1. The Status Seekers, Packard (3)

2. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (1)

3. Only in America, Golden (2)

4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (4)

5. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (8)

6. Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins (5)

7. Collision Course, Moscow

8. My Brother Was an Only Child, Douglas (7)

9. The House of Intellect, Barzun

10. ‘Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone(6)

*Position on last week’s list.