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Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The Prime Minister faces a motion of censure during the North African retreat, then turns the tide at El Alamein, begins the rout of the Desert Rats with the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa.
Mon., Feb. 27
Acapulco (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Refusing to let a dead dog lie—the Klondike series, which folded fortnight ago—Klondike's stars have turned into Mexican beachcombers for a new series. The premiere episode: "Killer in a Rose-Colored Mask."
THEATER
On Broadway
Rhinoceros. Avant-Gardist Eugene Ionesco's farcical-satirical assault on modern conformity.
A Taste of Honey. An unblinking look at some of the world's misfits and misfortunes, ringingly recorded by Britain's Shelagh Delaney.
Period of Adjustment. Tennessee Williams' deft but disappointing domestic comedy about two couples' problems of marital adjustment.
All the Way Home. A well-acted, tender adaptation of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family.
Advise and Consent. An unsubstantial but suspenseful piece based on the Allen Drury bestseller.
Becket. Although hardly a Murder in the Cathedral, Jean Anouilh's work is full of effective pageantry and well played by Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn.
Irma La Douce. A piquant and jaunty French musical fleshed out by the saucy insouciance of Elizabeth Seal.
Camelot. Worthwhile for its stylish sets, a few fine songs, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews.
Do Re Mi. A musical survivor thanks only to the shenanigans of Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker.
Show Girl. A zingy satirical revue brought off by Carol Channing.
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Common targets attacked with uncommon hilarity.
Off Broadway
Call Me By My Rightful Name. A fresh, modest piece about a maladjusted triangle.
The American Dream. Young Playwright Edward Albee, who sometimes sounds like an American Ionesco, satirizes middle-class America.
Hedda Gabler. Anne Meacham is stunning in a welcome revival of the Ibsen classic.
BOOKS
Best Reading
A Burnt-Out Case, by Graham Greene.
Deadened in spirit as a leper is benumbed in body, a famed architect takes himself off to a leper colony, closely followed by a venal journalist intent on according him canonization-by-newsprint. Never has Greene stated more eloquently his lifelong argument with God.
The Real Silvestri, by Mario Soldati. An old friend learns shocking things about the title figure five years after his death, and the author skillfully rephrases an old truth—that most people know of others only what it is comfortable to know.
Skyline, by Gene Fowler. The 1920s again, this time described by Old Newspaperman Fowler.
First Family, by Christopher Davis. A skilled novelist examines a picked-over but exciting theme—what happens when Negroes move in next door.
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. Ill, edited by Leonard W. Labaree. Among other prizes, this volume contains Franklin's most important studies on electricity and Verses on the Virginia Capitol Fire, a witty parody of the fulsome prose of an 18th century governor prying more money out of his legislature.