Aparajito (Indian). The second part--the first was Pather Panchali--of a trilogy, made by Director Satyajit Ray, telling the story of India's social revolution in terms of one family's sorrows and beatitudes. The completed trilogy promises to be one of the greatest movies ever made.
The Perfect Furlough. The usual soldier farce, but Director Blake Edwards has turned it out with professional polish. Good conduct medal: Tony Curtis.
The Mistress (Japanese). The rise of a fallen woman is quietly, shrewdly observed by Director Shiro Toyoda in one of the best films to come out of Japan.
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth More in a fairly successful British attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera.
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A film that should please as well as frighten the kiddy set.
The Doctor's Dilemma. Shaw's 52-year-old comedy-drama about the rights of genius and the wrongs of the medical profession is pertly entertaining.
A Night to Remember. A skillful recreation, based on Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller, of the sinking of the Titanic.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. A sentimental, overlong, but often moving film, not unlike a Cecil DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, with Ingrid Bergman as a missionary in China.
He Who Must Die (French). The story of a modern Calvary; one of the most powerful religious movies in years.
TELEVISION
Wed., Feb. 18
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A composite history of the dedicated gambler, with guest psychiatrist to explain what it all means.
Thurs., Feb. 19
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Loring Mandel, yet another playwright preoccupied with the fate of Organization Man, tells about a company raider.
Sat., Feb. 21
Perry Mason (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The hero of Erie Stanley Gardner's world series is a bit overweight and slow afoot in the TV version, but his win-loss record is as good as it ever was.
Sun., Feb. 22
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Easter Island, lately the subject of Thor Heyerdahl's bestselling Aku-Aku, gets another going-over from Geographer Dr. George Carter; his interest in old stones and caves is exceeded only by his fascination with rongorongo boards (a method of communication).
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Anthropologist Margaret Mead talks about the whopping changes that World War II brought to New Guinea and how it all ties in with U.S. mores.
The Great Challenge (CBS, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). In the first of a new discussion series, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Detlev W. Bronk and Jerome B. Wiesner wonder "Where Is Science Taking Us?"
Lincoln Presents (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Leonard Bernstein picks four notes (How Dry I Am) out of a hat and shows, with the help of his New York Philharmonic, what magical changes they can undergo in different periods and styles.
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Douglas MacArthur's reconquest of the Philippines.
Mon., Feb. 23 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tony Randall as a department store clerk with hopes that his 40-ft. yacht, if he can ever get it out of the basement, will get him away from it all.
Tues., Feb. 24
Hamlet (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The Old Vic's production, which recently disappointed Broadway but seems a brave effort for TV.
THEATER
On Broadway
Redhead. Gwen Verdon, the Tenth Muse of Broadway, stops, starts, and saves this musical mystery show set in a turn-of-the-century London waxworks.
Requiem for a Nun. Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner's play is not a model of playmaking, but it is feelingly and uncompromisingly written around the great themes of God, sin and redemption. With a notable cast headed by Ruth Ford and Zachary Scott.
J.B. A 20th century morality play by Poet Archibald MacLeish, expressing modern man's torment in terms of the Book of Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a rather hollow ending, it makes for an arresting evening in the theater.
La Plume de Ma Tante. An acrobatty French revue that leaves English and the audience happily fractured.
Flower Drum Song. A routine but expertly guided tour, conducted by Rodgers & Hammerstein, of San Francisco's Chinatown.
A Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling illusions is still the season's best drama. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes.
My Fair Lady, with inimitable charm, The Music Man, with glorious corn, and West Side Story, with riotous drama, add up to a memorable trio of musicals.
Two for the Seesaw. An uneven but touching duet of loneliness and humor.
On Tour
My Fair Lady in DETROIT and Two for the Seesaw and The Music Man in CHICAGO are adequate replicas of the Broadway originals.
Look Back in Anger. Playwright John Osborne's fairly arresting snarl at all the world. In MINNEAPOLIS.
The Girls in 509. An intermittently amusing situation comedy in which Peggy Wood plays a violently Republican battle-ax, while Imogene Coca provides some wonderfully wacky kindling. In DETROIT.
The Warm Peninsula. An impish display of peninsula envy as Julie Harris deserts staid Milwaukee for glamorous Miami. In PORTLAND and SEATTLE.
BOOKS Best Reading
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider. Skillfully worked excerpts from the 500,000 words of notes left by the cynical, naive, laughing man who lived on through fictional boys to become the father of much that is best in modern American literature.
Kitchener, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a hussar's busby.
A Medicine for Melancholy, by Ray Bradbury. A fine collection of typically inner-directed short stories by science fiction's suavest outer-bounder.
Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. A rare blending of passion and grace, one of the best love stories in years.
Across Paris, by Marcel Ayme. Twelve fanciful short stories in beautifully wrought irony by a French novelist gifted in the art of the impossible.
The Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist's last testament to offbeat life richly portrays a tawdry faith healer who suggests that a sinning outsider may have the inside track to God.
The Haunted Palace, by Frances Winwar. The beat degeneration and high talent of Poe make for a fine biography.
The Waist-High Culture, by Thomas Griffith. A cool look at the fatty tissues that give U.S. culture a rubber tire.
Lady L., by Remain Gary. An urbane ribbing of those who swallow ideals but cannot stomach people.
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic.
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. A charming if disorderly waif clings to the edge of her martini glass to keep from drowning in Manhattan.
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book that renews all who read it and condemns those who banned it.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)
2. Lolita, Nabokov (2)
3. Exodus, Uris (3)
4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4)
5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5)
6. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6)
7. Lady L., Gary (8)
8. Tenderloin, Adams (9)
9. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (7)
10. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote
NONFICTION
1. Only in America, Golden (1)
2. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (2)
3. Wedemeyer Reports! (5)
4. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (6)
5. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger (4)
6. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (3)
7. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Boyington (7)
8. The American High School Today, Conant
9. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery (10)
10. Main Street, U.S.S.R., Levine
* All times E.D.T.
* Position on last week's list.
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