THEATRE

Inherit the Wind, based on the Scopes trial, consists of a lot of pseudo-legal hot air that makes very effective drama. Melvyn Douglas, who inherited Paul Muni's New York role as Clarence Darrow, blows well and lustily. At the Shubert at 8:30 p.m., tomorrow at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m.

Speaking of Murder stars Canadian Lorne Green in his first Broadway role since Prescott Proposals, which seems to be the sum total of information around about this inoffensive little thriller, we guess. Tonight, at the Plymouth, 8:30 p.m., tomorrow at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m.

The Immortal Husband still survives at the Poet's Theatre, where everyone seems well amused, by box office receipts. Tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 p.m.

New Theatre Workshop, program four, finds Hal Scott, who could never pass as a freshman amateur, trying very little experimental, but doing it very well, in a judiciously edited Emperor Jones and the some-what staggering The Purification. Prefatory remarks, concerning some H.D.C. production next week, by Stephen Aaron '57, Esq. Others. At 3:10 and 8:15 p.m. today in Agassiz.

MUSIC

Boston Symphony, scarcely letting us recover from last week's magnificent bombast, will pit two Englishmen--Britten and Walton--against a German, Beethoven, who has written a Pastoral Symphony. Gregor Piatigorsky, cello soloist. At 2:15 p.m. today, 8:30 p.m. tomorrow.

CINEMA

War and Peace isn't half as bad as people say it is. Continuous at the U.T. Brattle presents Emil Jannings' Last Laugh and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Giant, Lust for Life, and Rififi are still around in town.