From Hollywood

The Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy, who can also be seen fishing in cinematically troubled waters in The Old Man and the Sea, is far more at home playing a curly-haired, Curley-like Irish machine pol. The climax conies in a death scene that should wring tears from an Ulsterman.

Damn Yankees. The musical that played hell with the national game on Broadway gets a helluva good deal itself from Hollywood. With Dancers Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston.

Me and the Colonel. A notably comic and often touching study in the art of survival, demonstrated by Danny Kaye as a Polish refugee who keeps one jump ahead of the invading Nazi armies in France by using his brains and his heart.

The Defiant Ones. A short length of chain ties a couple of escaped convicts (Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier) together with a well-forged lesson about the real bonds of brotherhood.

The Reluctant Debutante. Mayfair never seemed quite so fair, or so gay, as when Rex Harrison and his wife Kay Kendall do the town.

From Abroad

Father Panchali (Indian). Director Satyajit Ray has produced the first cinematic masterpiece ever made in India: a stirring vision of life in Mother Asia.

The Case of Dr. Laurent (French).

Country doctor Jean Gabin manages to make natural childbirth seem so natural that his patient is permitted to have her baby on screen.

TELEVISION

Wed.. Nov. 5 United States Steel Hour (CBS. 10-11 ` Melvyn Douglas, who was done in in The Plot to Kill Stalin, stays zestfully alive this time as a middle-aged surgeon whose appointment to a top post seems threatened by his hankering for a young model (Nancy Olson).

Thurs.. Nov. 6 Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).

Roddy MacDowall, Eartha Kitt, Oscar Homolka and Boris Karloff in a dramatization of Joseph Conrad's eerie master piece, Heart of Darkness.

Fri., Nov. 7 Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.).

The man who made the mouse comes full circle with a report on the lion. His Majesty, the King of Beasts is taken from 100,000 ft. of film shot in Africa.

Sun.. Nov. 9 Omnibus (NBC. 5-6 p.m.). The thesis is that the human body behaves under water like an atomic submarine, or vice versa, and Esther Williams is on hand to demonstrate why.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The life of legendary Notre Dame Football Coach Knute Rockne, reconstructed from a cache of film that has been gathering mildew in the university's files for 27 years.

The Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).

The Rodeo, broadcast live from its San Francisco visit.

Mon., Nov. 10

Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). It sounds a little silly--delivering a herd of Nubian milk goats to French Equatorial Africa--but the Cincinnati Zoo's Dr. Byron Bernard thought Dr. Albert Schweitzer could use them, and he has this film to prove it.

All-Star Jazz Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).

All kinds of noise, from the river boat of Louis Armstrong to the leaky boat of Les Brown and his Band of Renown; among those loitering between the extremes: Lionel Hampton, Hoagy Carmichael, Gene Krupa, Bob Crosby.

THEATER On Broadway The Pleasure of His Company. Suave drawing-room comedy with a deft Cyril Ritchard as a playboy prodigal father who turns up for his daughter's wedding and turns everything around him upside down. With Cornelia Otis Skinner.

A Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's giant strength and giant sprawl, in a long-ago tale of a boozing, illusion-ridden innkeeper--well played by Eric Portman--and his shattered pose as a fine gentleman. With Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley.

The Music Man. Robert Preston in a musicomedy that has all the jubilant old-time energy of a small-town jamboree.

My Fair Lady. Broadway has grown accustomed to her face--still one of the most attractive in sight.

The Visit. The Lunts enhancing a fascinating continental theater piece concerned with a rich woman's vengeful hate and a community that succumbs to greed.

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's 19201sh family chronicle, alternating parlor comedy with dark tensions; sometimes vivid, sometimes merely facile.

Two for the Seesaw. Uneven but amusing and touching two-character tale of a split-level, ghost-ridden love affair.

Look Homeward Angel. Less bulky and autobiographical than Thomas Wolfe's parent novel, and more the portrait of a memorable family at once riveted and riven. Pulitzer Prize and Critics' Award Winner.

On Tour

Auntie Maine. The wackiest aunt since Charley's is fracturing CHICAGO (Constance Bennett) and SAN FRANCISCO (Eve Arden), while Sylvia Sidney in the same role is hopping about as frantically as Mame herself, playing in TEXAS, LOUISIANA and ARKANSAS.

My Fair Lady. The CHICAGO cast may not be up to the original Broadway lineup, but what does it matter?

Look Back in Anger. A hero who is mad at all the world, including himself, makes for uneven but fairly arresting theater. In PHILADELPHIA.

The Music Man. Oompah, oompah and hurray! In SAN FRANCISCO.

Two for the Seesaw. Ruth Roman and Jeffrey Lynn are seesawing away in TORONTO.

Ballets: U.S.A. Jerome Robbins, one of the best of American choreographers, puts audiences in INDIANAPOLIS and COLUMBUS through some fascinating paces.

Twelfth Night & Hamlet. London's matchless Old Vic Company in CHICAGO.

BOOKS

Best Reading Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Sometimes sordid but always amusing and touching recollections of assorted waifs and strays, mostly one called Holly Golightly, the hottest kitten yet to hit the author's typewriter keys.

Mistress to an Age, by J. Christopher Herold. A fine biography of Mme. de Stael, lusty literary salonkeeper at the time of the French Revolution.

The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery. Monty tells all, and tells it extremely well.

Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene. A thriller about a vacuum-cleaner salesman sucked into the British secret service like a helpless piece of carpet fluff.

Child of Our Time, by Michel del Castillo. A childhood in Europe's concentration camps, heartrendingly recalled.

The Klondike Fever, by Pierre Berton.

The Yukon revisited.

In Flanders Fields, by Leon Wolff. An absorbing account of one of the bloodiest bungles of World War I.

The Secret, by Alba de Cespedes. A sensitive glimpse into the problems of a middle-aged Italian woman suggesting that home is where the heart is, but the heart is not always in the home.

Women and Thomas Harrow, by John P. Marquand. A poor little lamb who lost his way on Broadway and in life.

Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak.

The great novel that won its author the Nobel Prize. Both an indictment of Communist inhumanity and a moving hymn to the Russian people's humanity.

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. About a middle-aged monomaniac's obsession with an adolescent "nymphet." Brilliantly writ ten, by turns hilarious and horrifying, it is a strange but major work of fiction.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Lolita, Nabokov (1)

2. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (3)

3. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (2)

4. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (4)

5. The Best of Everything, Jaffe (5)

6. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (6)

7. Exodus, Uris

8. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (9)

9. The King Must Die, Renault 10. Angelique, Colon

NONFICTION

1. Only in America, Golden (1)

2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2)

3. On My Own, Roosevelt (4)

4. Kids Say the Darndest Things!, Linkletter (7)

5. Inside Russia Today, Gunther (9)

6. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Boyington (3)

7. The Affluent Society, Galbraith (6)

8. The Insolent Chariots, Keats (5)

9. The Three Edwards, Costain

10. Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Kerr

(Numbers in parentheses indicate last week's position.)

*All times E.S.T.

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