Time Listings: Jan. 6, 1961

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General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Sammy Davis Jr. in a Budd Schulberg story about an ex-boxer trying to become a ring announcer.

The Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). On film, Heavyweight Ingemar Johansson shows Dinah around Copenhagen, which should be an interesting tour, since Ingo is Swedish. Color.

THEATER

Camelot. Suffering from a book paralyzed by internal contradictions, the Lerner-Loewe opus nevertheless has sprightly moments, magnificent sets, and a performance beyond the call of musi-comedy duty by Richard Burton.

All the Way Home. An adaptation of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family, that offers more small coins of pure silver and less stage money than any other U.S. play this season.

Advise and Consent. Although never once cutting below the surface, this political contrivance (based on Allen Drury's bestselling novel) gets behind the scenes often enough to produce brisk theater.

Period of Adjustment. Tennessee Williams' South has become unprecedentedly sunny in a lively, skillful but somehow disappointing comedy about marital adjustment.

An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Whether enacting Mamma and Papa, lover and mistress, or P.T.A. program chairman and Southern playwright, the versatile improvisationists are funny and sharply satirical.

A Taste of Honey. A shabby world of people who are disturbed but vital leaps to life through language that has edge and rings true.

Irma La Douce. Elizabeth Seal emerges as a delightful streetwalker—and street dancer—in a jaunty French musical that fills its Pernod bottles with the milk of human kindness.

BOOKS

Best Reading

To a Young Actress, edited by Peter Tompkins. The actress was Mrs. Molly Tompkins, an American, and the letter writer was G.B.S., who strove, without Pygmalion's success, to improve her mind and pronunciation.

The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill,

by Don Russell. The bearded old bison-bane was a showman, but he was also a notable frontiersman, and this biography does a good job of sorting the facts from the flamdoodle.

Greek Gods and Heroes, by Robert Graves. The only classicist who troubles himself to speak to the upper-middle intellectual class has disarmingly retold the Greek myths for young readers.

Winnie Ille Pu, by A. A. Milne, translated into Latin by Alexander Lenard. Liber virginibus puerisque legendis, si quis adhuc vivit satis impiger qui alienum sermonem a maioribus pantopere excultum non fastiviat.

It Had Been a Mild, Delicate Night, by Tom Kaye. The author writes of a nymph and a satyr in London, of all places; his pagan first novel is in praise of Eros, the deity he believes makes the world go around.

Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. Lady Diana has the delightful ability to make real people seem like Waugh characters, but there is a touch of sadness to the third volume of her autobiography, in which the brightest of the Bright Young People of the '20s says goodbye to her generation.

A Zoo in My Luggage, by Gerald Durrell. The author, who must be extremely tired of being described as the brother of Novelist Lawrence Durrell, is crackers about animals, and here he writes very well of the ones he met on an eventful trip to the Cameroons.