CINEMA

The Devil Strikes at Night (German). A psychopolitical thriller: the story of he village idiot who challenged the Nazi monopoly on wholesale murder.

Aparajito (Indian). The brilliant second part (the first was Father 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 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 Titanic sinks again in a suspenseful movie version.

He Who Must Die (French). A modern Calvary that glares with the raw light of an essential religious experience.

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.

Separate Tables. A Chekhov situation, without the Chekhov truths, brings half a dozen warped and lonely characters together in an English seaside boardinghouse. The parts provided by Playwright Terence Rattigan, a master illusionist, are well acted by Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Killer and Gladys Cooper.

TELEVISION

Wed., March 4 Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The engaging musical variety show bubbles on, this time with Soprano Eileen Farrell, Violinist Isaac Stern, the Joe Bushkin Quartet, Ann Blyth and Howard Keel.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Better Business Bureau opens its files to a semi-documentary suggesting that the buying public is one big sucker.

Thurs., March 5 Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The unhappiness this week centers around a couple of G.I.s (Dean Stockwell and Dick York) who get all shook up in Japan.

Fri., March 6 77 Sunset Strip (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.).

One of the more ambitious -- it lasts an hour -- of the private-eye jobs. With Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Edward Burnes.

Cavalcade of Sports (NBC, 10 p.m.).

Welterweights Gaspar Ortega and Stefan Redl in a ten-rounder from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.

Sat., March 7 Black Saddle (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A meaningless title conceals a western about a lawyer (Peter Breck) almost as fast with his mouth as he is with his gun. It is all good, unwholesome fun.

Sun., March 8

Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC. 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). All about hay fever and other allergies. With Allergist Dr. Leighton E. Cluff.

Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Eleanor Roosevelt discourses on the U.S. female, the political obligations of citizens. Sputnik, the future.

Maria Golovin (NBC, 5-7 p.m.). Gian Carlo Menotti's latest opera, short-lived on Broadway (TIME, Nov. 17) in a two-hour, full-color reincarnation. With original stars Franca Duval, Patricia Neway and Richard Cross.

Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Ingrid Bergman on an international hookup with New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther and Independent Producer Darryl F. Zanuck.

The General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). The Marx Brothers are only two--Chico and Harpo--in this new farce called The Incredible Jewel Robbery.

Mon., March 9

The Greatest Show on Earth (ABC. 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Ernie Kovacs as M.C. of a peek at the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, broadcast from Charlotte, N.C.

THEATER

On Broadway

Redhead. Gwen Verdon triple-treats the customers to a feast of dancing, singing and acting, but the rest of this musical whodunit is pretty undernourished.

Requiem for a Nun. With a moving intensity that transcends technical flaws, Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner lights up the dark night of one woman's soul.

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. This acrobatty French revue is written with, by, and for the funnybone.

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 Edwardian charm, The Music Man, with mid-America hominess, and West Side Story, with Manhattan rumbles, make a trio of musical magic carpets.

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. Bedfellows make strange politics in this Rip Van Winkleish farce starring Peggy Wood as a violent

Republican recluse and Imogene Coca as her niece. In CHICAGO.

The Warm Peninsula. A case of buoy-meets-girl as Actress Julie Harris gets in Miami's glamour swim. In MILWAUKEE and CHICAGO.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Eight Days, by Gabriel Fielding. A thriller with theological overtones of grace and disgrace that may leave Graham Greene with envy.

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 memorably 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 short stories by science fiction's suavest purple people greeter.

Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. A sordid setting combined with soaring passion make 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 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. An even-tempered diagnosis of the distemper of the times.

The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. The hottest kitten yet to hit the author's typewriter keys.

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. Exodus, Uris (3) 3.Lolita, Nabokov (2) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 6. Lady L., Gary (7) 7. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6) 8. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (9) 9. The Watch That Ends the Night MacLennan 10. Tenderloin, Adams (8)

NONFICTION

1 . Only in America, Golden ( 1 ) 2. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (2) 3. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (3) 4. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (9) 5. Wedemeyer Reports! (6) 6. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet 7. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (4) 8. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger (5) 9. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen 10.The Affluent Society, Galbraith

*All times E.S.T. * Position on last week's

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