THEATER: On Broadway, Sep. 21, 1959

CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS

Monday, Sept. 21, 1959

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    Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). Smiley has so much to offer that for the first time in twelve years his show runs on for an hour and a half. Fun and games with Eileen Farrell, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Wayne & Schuster, Ford & Hines, and assorted big-league baseball stars.

    Mon., Sept. 21

    Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The jazz is as lively, Edie is as lovely, Pete and his police pal, Lieut. Jacoby, are as laconic as ever. The new season brings a new "Mother," Minerva Urecal. She begins with a bang: her saloon is blown up by protection racketeers.

    Tues., Sept. 22

    Bronco (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A blue chip from the network's big bet on bread-and-butter programing. The trick is to find a new frame for a shoot-'em-up. This one turns an ex-Confederate officer into a disillusioned jack-of-all-trades, starts off his long series of romantic troubles with Game at the Beacon Club, a look at a San Francisco gambling parlor complete with Oriental heavies and Occidental queens.

    THEATER

    A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry's poignant, prizewinning first play about a Chicago Negro family that yearns to leave the black South Side jungle for a place in the white suburban sun.

    J.B. Out of the verse of Poet Archibald MacLeish and the theatrical verve of Director Elia Kazan, a businessman's Job comes excitingly alive.

    La Plume de Ma Tante. If the producers of this madcap French revue chance to do a sequel, the late Wallace Stevens provided a title: Le Monocle de Mon Oncle.

    My Fair Lady, with Edwardian charm, The Music Man, with mid-American corn, and Flower Drum Song, with Oriental flair, make a trio of memorable musicals. Redhead cuts a nifty caper, and the fanciest footwork is Gwen Verdon's.

    BOOKS

    Best Reading

    John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison. He had a murderous temper, the morals of a tomcat, and a colossal ego, but he could fight a ship. A matchless biography of the great naval hero by the ablest living chronicler of U.S. sailormen at war.

    The Mermaid Madonna, by Stratis Myrivilis. Life is harsh, but the living of it sweet, in this island idyl of the wine-dark sea, by one of Greece's finest contemporary novelists.

    Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Fifteen well-crafted short stories about life among Negroes of a small Southern town establish the author as a first-rate writer, on his first try between hard covers.

    On a Balcony, by David Stacton. An astringent tale, several notches above the usual historical novel, of Egypt's neurotic Pharaoh Ikhnaton and his attempts to replace the old gods with a new and self-centered religion.

    More Than Meets the Eye, by Carl Mydans. A vivid written (no pictures) account by a crack photographer of nearly a quarter-century spent covering the world's battlefronts.

    Surgeon at Arms, by Daniel Paul with John St. John. In September 1944, an airborne attempt to outflank the Siegfried Line failed, and a British battle surgeon who tended the wounded of that unsuccessful mission writes movingly of blood, death and capture.

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