CINEMA
Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe's first movie role since The Prince and the Showgirl, nearly two years ago, leaves the impression that an earlier Monroe, with or without Miller and Method, was funnier, lusher, smarter. The movie itself is a fine, pie-throwing-style parody on gangsters and gagsters of the 1920s.
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, Margaret Leighton.
The Sins of Rose Bernd (German). Maria Schell, suffering the pangs of unmarried motherhood, gives an often moving, sensitive performance.
The Perfect Furlough. An engaging encyclopedia of comic cliches, well illustrated by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.
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 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 fanciful satire about an Englishman in the cow country, roping and branding bovine Jayne Mansfield.
TELEVISION
Wed., March 25 Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). * Another engaging, improbable meeting:
Trail Scout Robert Horton falls in love with a passing nun (Vera Miles)and stout ly refrains from saying so.
Thurs., March 26 The Oldsmobile Theater (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Love in a Midwest public library, between an exchange student (French Singer Genevieve) and Jackie Cooper, who wanders in out of the cold.
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A Trip to Paradise: the hard way of a teen age boy (Burt Brinckerhoff) through a world full of delinquents and beatniks.
Fri., March 27 The Shroud of Turin (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). A religious documentary about the burial cloth kept at Turin, Italy that has been honored for centuries as Christ's. A Good Friday repeat for the sixth year.
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.).
A rollicking history of musical instruments, suggesting that every musical sound is basically a toot, whistle, plunk or boom.
High Adventure with Lowell Thomas (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The modern Halliburton's latest 3,500-mile safari from the Bahrein Islands to Zanzibar with son and camera.
Sat., March 28 Young People's Concert (CBS, 12 noon-1 p.m.). Conductor Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in their fourth and final program this season.
Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS,
9:30-11 p.m.). Dramatization of William Saroyan's funny, sentimental sheaf of stories, The Human Comedy.
Sun., March 29
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). Great artists--Griinewald, Bellini, Duccio, Piero della Francesca--and their versions of the resurrection.
Magic with Mary Martin (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). A superspecial Easter egg, live and in color. Part I is for the kids: songs from Cinderella and Peter Pan, plus an original new work by Richard Rodgers' two composer-daughters. In Part II, Music with Mary Martin (NBC, 8-9 p.m.), Mary does songs from her own Broadway musicals.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A portrait of Teddy Roosevelt.
The Jazz Age (NBC, 7-8 p.m.). Repeat of the much admired 1956 film documentary on the golden 1920s, with narration by the late Fred Allen.
Mon., March 30 America Pauses for Springtime (CBS,
7:30-8:30 p.m.). A crocus-like view of the nation's melting mood. With Golfer Bobby Jones, Opera Star Robert Merrill, Dancers Marge and Gower Champion.
Pete Kelly's Blues (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.).
First of a new filmed drama series produced by Jack (Dragnet) Webb, loosely based on the loose life of a 1920s jazz trumpeter in Kansas City.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun. The budding hopes, deferred dreams and inner conflicts of a Southside Chicago Negro family are movingly probed in a fine first play. Negro Playwright Lorraine Hansberry balances tears and laughter with some emotions that go too deep for either.
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. A melting-pot musical about Chinese-Americans routinely but deftly stirred by Rodgers & Hammerstein.
A Touch of the Poet. A bottle-fed innkeeper loses the illusions he lives by, and a so-so theater season gains its best play, thanks to the late Eugene O'Neill.
The Pleasure of His Company. As the errant father of the bride, guileful Cyril Ritchard stops the wedding music.
My Fair Lady raises a topper, The Music Man sounds a trumpet, and West Side Story swings a switchblade in three memorable musical salutes.
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. A buzzsaw farce with Peggy Wood as an unreconstructed Republican and Imogene Coca as her niece. 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
Collision Course, by Alvin Moscow, an account of the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, the story of the torpedoed British liner Athenia, skillfully raise ghost ships from the depths of forgetfulness.
My Fathers and I, by Eric Linklater. A comic gallery of historical portraits, intended to show that the past was laughable, the present beneath contempt.
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 lively swearing of the green reform-school days of Ireland's latest IRAte young man.
The Fig Tree, by Aubrey Menen. Some sprightly wit and stylish prose about an aphrodisiac fig that makes the choicest summer reading of the winter.
Eight Days, by Gabriel Fielding. Sin, soul-searching and suspense in Africa.
Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh.
The joy and misery of love, chronicled with rare grace and honesty.
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.
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak.
The book in which the best of Russia speaks to the good in all men.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)-
2. Exodus, Uris (2)
3. Lolita, Nabokov (3)
4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4)
5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5)
6. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (8)
7. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6)
8. Lady L., Gary (7)
9. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote 10. Pioneer, Go Home! Powell
NONFICTION
1. Only in America, Golden (1)
2. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (2)
3. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (4)
4. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (3) .,
5. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (5)
6. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (7)
7. The American High School Today, Conant
8. Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins (9)
9. The Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger
10. Wedemeyer Reports! (6)
* All times E.S.T. -Position on last week's list.
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