The Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving, thanks mostly to an intensely intelligent performance by Maria Schell.

The Perfect Furlough. A frozen Army outpost in the Arctic, with central heating by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, makes a floe of comic cliches.

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 satiric fantasy about an Englishman instead of the beastly colonials winning the West. Jayne Mansfield is a restless native.

The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A horrifyingly good monster picture for children.

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.

TELEVISION

Wed., March 11

U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Tom Ewell and June Lockhart in an amiable trifle about a salesman who finds that love and education can go together.

Thurs., March 12

The Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Grandmothers of the world, unite! Liberace is doing a guest shot. Color.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). First of two installments, in successive weeks, of one of the most ambitious dramatic shows in TV history: Hemingway's Spanish-war epic, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Maria Schell as Maria, Jason Robards Jr. as Robert Jordan, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as Rafael.

Sat., March 14

Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Have Sword, Will Duel presents a dazzling mixture of nationalities: a visiting Russian, Grand Duke Nicolai Alexandrovitch Danovsky, gets involved with an Irish adventurer named O'Hara, and a Latin morsel known as Conchita Lolita Sarita.

Sun., March 15

Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). For those with mathematically esoteric tastes, nothing beats a brisk panel discussion about testing Einstein's relativity by atomic clocks in outer space.

Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A revival of George M. Cohan's grand old (1906) musical, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The best of the current film documentaries does one of the most exciting of the war tales: Burma Road and the Hump.

Frances Langford Presents (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fifteen years after she started flying around the world as the singing attraction in the Bob Hope troupe, Langford gets a TV "special" all to herself; Hope will be on hand, and so will Hugh O'Brian, Julie London, Edgar Bergen, George Sanders and Jerry Colonna.

Mon., March 16

Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The most intriguing of TVs private eyes. This time, the corpse wears mink.

The Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A B-47 once fell apart at 32,000 feet, and the men in it were moved to extraordinary action. Kerwin Mathews stars in the re-creation of the true story.

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Piper Laurie and James MacArthur, a couple of interesting renegades from the auld sod, in a play about the Irish rebellion.

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 funny bone.

Flower Drum Song. Rodgers & Hammerstein's slick musical contribution to Broadway's current mania for Orientalia.

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, 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 Winkle-ish 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 CHICAGO.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. A rousing reform-school saga from Ireland's latest literary delinquent.

The Fig Tree, by Aubrey Menen. When a chemically hopped-up fig proves to be an aphrodisiac, the scandal rocks church and state in this slyly irreverent spoof.

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. A memorable profile of Sam Clemens, skillfully extracted from 500,000 words of notes.

Kitchener, by Philip Magnus. A long, clear-eyed look at the legendary satrap who helped enforce Pax Britannica.

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. Sordid setting combined with soaring passion 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 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 Edgar Allan Poe make for a fine biography.

The Waist-High Culture, by Thomas Griffith. An even-tempered diagnosis of the distemper of the times.

The Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Into this skillfully woven basket of short stories, the author tenderly places seven "twisted apples"--the maimed, the infantile, the impotent--that have fallen from the tree of life.

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 international bestseller in which the best of Russia speaks to the good in all men.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)*

2. Lolita, Nabokov (3)

3. Exodus, Uris (2)

4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4)

5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5)

6. Lady L., Gary (6)

7. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (7)

8. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico

9. Tenderloin, Adams (10)

10. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (8)

NONFICTION

1. Only in America, Golden (1)

2. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (3)

3. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (2)

4. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (4)

5. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (6)

6. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (7)

7. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger (8)

8. Wedemeyer Reports! (5)

9. Main Street U.S.S.R., Levine

10. Borstal Boy, Behan

* All times E.S.T.

* Position on last week's list.

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