The Sound and the Fury. Hollywood has diligently soaped up William Faulkner's stained-honor novel, but the laundered version is also admirably starched with excellent acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner and Margaret Leighton.
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. With 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 poignant restatement of the timeless truth that a social problem is a moral problem, which can only have a religious solution.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Ingrid Bergman as a London parlormaid called by God to be a missionary in China. Though blooped out to fill the Cinema-Scope screen and tingle the mass public, the story itself is strongly moving.
The Hanging Tree. A "psychological" horse opera suggesting that the American West was won on the couches of Vienna. But even as a frontier Freud, Gary Cooper remains Gary Cooper.
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.
A Night to Remember. The gripping trial of the Titanic.
He Who Must Die (French). A modern Passion that makes one of the screen's most powerful religious statements in years.
TELEVISION
Wed., March 18
The Jack Benny Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* The first of two specials by the master of comic timing.
Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.). Two good mixers: World Featherweight Champion Hogan ("Kid") Bassey of Nigeria risking his title against Ohioan Davey Moore in Los Angeles.
Thurs., March 19
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Part II of For Whom the Bell Tolls.
The Dean Martin Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Dean harmonizing with Donald O'Connor to some pleasant old soft-shoe routines. With Gisele MacKenzie. Color.
Fri., March 20
Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). From New York: Soprano Eleanor Steber, star of the Metropolitan Opera's remarkable new production Wozzeck. From Columbia, S.C.: Politico James F. Byrnes.
Sun., March 22
Bishop Pike (ABC, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Christ in Jeans, BBC's modern-dress filmed Passion play that roused British TViewers last year (TIME, April 14). Christ wears denims, the Virgin Mary looks like anybody's mum.
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Psychiatrist Karl Menninger couched for an interview by Editor Denver Lindley.
NBC Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). An eerie how-to-do-it on wiretapping by D.A.s, cops, private eyes, telephone men.
The Bell Telephone Science Series (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). A repeat of Producer Frank Capra's superb color film on weather, The Unchained Goddess.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The story of radar.
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC. 9-10 p.m.). Guests: Hymn-Shouter Mahalia Jackson, Tony Martin and Ginger Rogers. Color.
Mon., March 23
The Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Playwright Marc Connelly's Green Pastures, a memorable TV effort in 1957, is back again, live and in color, with the same arkful of God's chillun: William Warfield, Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, Earle Hyman.
Tues., March 24
The Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A one-shot special with Host Perry Como handling the traffic: Guests France Nuyen, Gertrude Berg, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Cyril Ritchard.
Alcoa Presents (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Four World War I soldiers say farewell to arms and go over the top the wrong way in The Vision, a semireligious fable.
THEATER
On Broadway
Redhead. A pretty thin musical whodunit saved by a pretty wonderful operative--Gwen Verdon.
J.B. Out of the Bible and into modern dress with Job. An added tribulation is the poverty of some of Archibald MacLeish's poetry and dramaturgy, but all in all the evening is richly rewarding.
La Plume de Ma Tante. This French-language course in the form of a fast and furious revue may not be so effective as Berlitz, but it is much funnier.
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.
The Pleasure of His Company. Cyril Ritchard is charming as an overprivileged, middle-aged delinquent.
Two for the Seesaw. A Manhattan tomgirl and a proper Omaha lawyer pass the time of day and night together in this sweet, sad and saucily humorous idyl.
My Fair Lady, with Edwardian charm, The Music Man with mid-America hominess, and West Side Story, with Manhattan rumbles, make a trio of memorable musicals.
On Tour
My Fair Lady in CLEVELAND and Two for the Seesaw and The Music Man in CHICAGO are adequate copies of the Broadway originals.
The Girls in 509. Bedfellows make strange politics in this Rip Van Winkle-ish farce starring Peggy Wood and Imogene Coca. In CHICAGO.
The Warm Peninsula. There's a moon over Miami, but Actress Julie Harris has her eye on the social stars. In CHICAGO.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Trial of Dr. Adams, by Sybille Bedford. One of the most extraordinary legal dramas ever played at London's Old Bailey, re-created with superb style.
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The wildly alive mind of a middle-aged virgin, whose strength is the joy of teaching children. A major literary creation.
Devil by the Sea, by Nina Bawden. A chiller with charming interludes of childish innocence.
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. Sin, soul-search and suspense in North Africa.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider. A memorable profile of Sam Clemens.
A Medicine for Melancholy, by Ray Bradbury. A fine collection of short stories by a science-fictional host at the Interstellar Hilton.
Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. The joy and misery of love, chronicled with rare grace and honesty.
Across Paris, by Marcel Ayme. Twelve stories from a peerless literary vineyard.
The Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. Last testament by the late novelist, who believed that even disgraceful action is part of God's graceful creation.
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic.
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. Exodus, Uris (3)
3. Lolita, Nabokov (2)
4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4)
5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5)
6. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (7)
7. Lady L., Gary (6)
8. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (8)
9. Tenderloin, Adams (9)
10. The Devil in Bucks County, Schiddel
NON FICTION
1. Only in America, Golden (1)
2. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (2)
3. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (5)
4. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (3)
5. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (6)
6. Wedemeyer Reports! (8)
7. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (4)
8. Main Street, U.S.S.R., Levine (9)
9. Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins
10. The New Testament in Modern English, Phillips
*All times E.S.T.
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