CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS

CINEMA

Sons and Lovers. An understated, succinct and highly effective rendering of the D. H. Lawrence novel, with a fine cast topped by Trevor Howard, playing the hardhanded, hard-drinking coal miner.

Elmer Gantry. Director Richard Brooks's wonderfully gaudy, artfully graphic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a carny-style revivalist specializing in the Seventh Commandment.

Psycho. Hitchcock's hand may be heavier than usual and totally immersed in blood, but it can still grip the spectator by the throat more expertly than the claws of any horror artist in the business.

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). A poetic, sometimes slow depiction of the Japanese city as a Calvary of the Atomic Age, where the heroine is reborn through love.

The Apartment. Billy Wilder oats uproariously sown by Jack Lemmon as a latter-day Alger hero who earns the key to the executive washroom by lending four philandering executives the key to his apartment.

Bells Are Ringing. Judy Holliday, a great comedienne, and some typically sprightly lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green save an otherwise mediocre cinemusical.

TELEVISION

Wed., Aug. 3

Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion).* Middleweights Henry Hank and Rudy Ellis have it out in Chicago. In their previous bout in 1958, Hank handed Ellis the only knockout of his career; Hank has never been stopped.

Thurs., Aug. 4

Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Rudolph Valentino's final film, Son of the Sheik, opens a summer series of condensed silent sagas. This one co-stars Vilma Banky.

Fri., Aug. 5

California All-Star Rodeo (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A corralful of the nation's top broncobusters stage a Salinas showdown.

Sat., Aug. 6 John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The globetrotter explores The Great Barrier Reef, a chain of coral islets off Australia's northeastern coast. Repeat.

Our Man in the Mediterranean (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The man is David Brinkley, who lightfoots his way through Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Spain, Monaco and France in an hour.

Inside Argonne (ABC, 10-12 p.m.). A documentary on the peacetime uses of atomic energy, spotlighting the work of the Argonne National Laboratory.

Mon., Aug. 8 Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A musical soak opera co-starring Fernando Lamas and Joey Bishop with Producer Williams. Color.

THEATER

On Broadway

Among the familiar musicals that seem determined to survive the summer: West Side Story, about street-fighting Montagues and Capulets; Fiorello! a lively reminiscence of the Little Flower; and Bye Bye Birdie, a romp about a rock-'n'-roll groaner. On the dramatic side, the air-conditioned perennials are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic, the savage piece about three women v. a spineless ne'er-do-well.

Off Broadway