Aparajito (Indian). The second part of a trilogy (the first was Father Panchali), 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. A bubbly cliche cocktail mixed by a sexy WAC (Janet Leigh) and a corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis). Guaranteed: exactly 287 laughs.
The Mistress (Japanese). A beautifully Eastern view of the rise of a fallen woman who struggles to submit to nature rather than to the Western way of struggling against it.
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. A British western shot in Spain that achieves satire on the Hollywood horse opera by starring Jayne Mansfield as the sheriff's cutie.
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A monster picture for children which is so horrifyingly good that parents may want to taste it before the kids devour it.
A Night to Remember. The suspenseful movie version of the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic.
He Who Must Die (French). A modern Calvary that glares with the raw light of an essential religious experience.
TELEVISION
Wed., Feb. 25
U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).*The capture of a television comedian speeding in his sports car hardly seems a suitable exploit for an ambitious small-town marshal. But TV marshals who catch anything besides cattle rustlers are a refreshing rarity. Trap for a Stranger has also snared Dick Van Dyke and Teresa Wright.
Thurs., Feb. 26
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The Dingaling Girl by Playwright J. P. Miller (who made a name for himself with The Days of Wine and Roses last year) is a new treatment of the old tale about a shy young housewife catapulted to Hollywood stardom. In the cast: Diane Varsi as the modest heroine, Sam Jaffe as the shrewd director, Eddie Albert as the poor but ambitious husband.
Fri., Feb. 27
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Chip 'n' Dale, the gay little cartoon chipmunks, turn out to be a nifty song-and-dance team.
Schlitz Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). On the Brink gives Mercedes McCambridge the chance to try a little brinksmanship with her own life as she plays the doting aunt horning in on a deadly family feud.
Sat., Feb. 28
Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A musical that can hardly miss. Accent on Love pokes fun at romance with a fine team of pros: Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, Comedians Elaine May and Mike Nichols, Singers Jaye P. Morgan and Danny Costello and All-Round Operator Ginger Rogers. Color.
*All times E.S.T.
Sun., March 1
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Home from four years as U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany, Dr. James B. Conant has some shrewd observations on what is different and what ought to be different between the U.S. and European school systems.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Generation Without a Cause, Rutgers University students and faculty, plus a bunch of Greenwich Village beatniks, are given the sociological once-over.
Mon., March 2
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Singers Robert Merrill, Patricia Morison, Gogi Grant and Julius La Rosa in a tribute to Composer Jerome Kern.
Bing Crosby Special (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Myopic viewers may think they are seeing double when sons Philip and Dennis come on to give Daddy a hand, but anyone can recognize the Old Groaner's voice. Jim (Maverick) Garner and Rosemary Clooney join the Crosby clan.
Tues., March 3
Some of Manie's Friends (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). The list reads like a Who's Who in Show Business. Caesar, Hope, Como, Sinatra, Cole--all friends of NBC's late Vice President Emanuel Sacks, all working for union minimum to make possible a sizable donation to Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center. Color.
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 sin and redemption.
J.B. A 20th century morality play by Archibald MacLeish, expressing modern man's torment in terms of the Book of Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a hollow ending, it is compelling theater.
La Plume de Ma Tante. An acrobatty French revue that leaves English and the audience happily fractured.
Flower Drum Song. East meets West, but Broadway takes over both in this run-of-the-pagoda musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein.
A Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill fashioned the season's best drama around a boozed-up innkeeper and the illusions that hold him up.
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. A Manhattan hoyden and an Omaha lawyer pool their loneliness and put a funny, touching accent on love.
On Tour
My Fair Lady in DETROIT and Two for the Seesaw and The Music Man in
CHICAGO are fair facsimiles of the Broadway originals.
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 CHICAGO.
The Warm Peninsula. An impish display of peninsula envy, as Julie Harris deserts staid Milwaukee for glamorous Miami. In MINNEAPOLIS and MILWAUKEE.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider. Mark Twain jotted down 500,000 words of notes about Sam Clemens and the twain meet gracefully in this skillful edition.
Kitchener, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden.
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 makes for one of the best love stories in years.
Across Paris, by Marcel Ayme. Twelve fanciful short stories 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, suggesting 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 look at the fatty tissues that give U.S. culture a rubber tire.
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 (7)
8. Tenderloin, Adams (8)
9. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (9) 10. Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Paris, Gallico
NONFICTION
1. Only in America, Golden (1)
2. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (2)
3. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King
4. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (4)
5. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger (5)
6. Wedemeyer Reports! (3)
7. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank
8. Main Street, U.S.S.R., Levine (10)
9. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (6)
10. My Story: An Autobiography, Astor
*Position on last week's list.
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