CINEMA
The Diary of Anne Frank. Director George Stevens, with a hatful of triumphs already to his credit, goes over the brim with a flawless and massive epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. Newcomer Millie Perkins, who resembles a younger Elizabeth Taylor, is almost all anyone could ask as Anne.
Green Mansions. The South American rain forest of William Henry Hudson's sentimental classic has been sprayed with dime-store perfume. But Audrey Hepburn is spritely enough as a child of nature. The boy is Tony Perkins.
Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe as a thrush with an all-girls' band in the 1920s. The primitive Monroe, before Miller and Method, seemed funnier, lusher, smarter. But the movie is a fine Keystone-style comedy.
The Sound and the Fury. A shrewd, drastic revision of William Faulkner's labyrinthine novel, with almost every character fumigated. Excellent acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton.
The Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A sensitive performance by Maria Schell surmounts insensitive direction in a story about the pangs of unmarried motherhood.
The Mistress (Japanese). A poignant Eastern view of a fallen woman, who rises by union with nature rather than by struggle against it.
He Who Must Die (French). The screen's most compelling religious statement in years.
TELEVISION
Wed., April 8
Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Milton Berle stars, with Oscar Levant. Color.
U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Gertrude Berg as an overloving grandma who offers too much advice to her daughter (Betsy von Furstenberg). When daughter rebels, frustrated grandma seeks succor in a salesclerk's job, soon comically jangles modern commerce.
Thurs., April 9
Today (NBC, 7-9 a.m.). A two-hour salute to baseball with film clips of memorable games, interviews with past and present diamond sparklers.
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Mr. and Mrs. Jose Ferrer (Rosemary Clooney) and Gisele MacKenzie sing pop tunes, opera's Georgio Tozzi and Nicolai Gedda sing a duet from The Bartered Bride, Jose Iturbi plays Chopin, Liszt and Rameau on piano and harpsichord, Maria Tallchief and Andre Eglevsky dance a classical pas de deux. Color.
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). In a Civil War drama, a young Union soldier (Timmy Everett) falls in love with a Southern girl, kills his sergeant to protect her.
Fri., April 10
Swing into Spring (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Benny Goodman celebrates his 25th anniversary as a bandleader, with Guests Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Lionel Hampton among the well-wishers.
Sat., April 11
Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Guests: Shouter Frankie Laine, Comedian Buddy Hackett, Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II.
Sun., April 12
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Teen-age science students explain their experiments with atomic energy, soil quality, snails, etc.
The Last Word (CBS, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Broadway's Abe Burrows and Commander Whitehead, at sea with Schweppes, bend the language with Dr. Bergen Evans and John Mason Brown.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The saga of nuclear submarines. Interviews with the skippers of three operational U.S. atomic subs.
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). First act of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, with Maurice Evans and Piper Laurie.
Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Hawaiian talent showcase. Color.
Mon., April 13
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). With Guest Singers John Raitt and Patrice Munsel.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter that link audience and cast in this honestly observed and superlatively acted first play.
Redhead. A faltering musical whodunit kept on the spin through the matchless body English of Musicomedienne Gwen Verdon.
J.B. Job in the guise of a wealthy modern businessman. Though Archibald MacLeish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater.
La Plume de Ma Tante. The French are too funny for words, and scarcely need or use them in this madcap revue.
Flower Drum Song. A melting-pot musical about Chinese-Americans, routinely but deftly stirred by Rodgers & Hammerstein.
A Touch of the Poet. With as much poetic license as poetry, the late Eugene O'Neill robbed a bottle-fed innkeeper of his illusions and gave a so-so season its best play.
The Pleasure of His Company. Overage International Playboy Cyril Ritchard returns to the family hearth just in time to throw his daughter's wooden fiance on the fire.
Two for the Seesaw. A Greenwich Village girl and an Omaha lawyer take love for a pick-me-up, and life is passingly sweet, sad and funny.
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
The Warm Peninsula. Julie Harris as a provincial have-not wants to join the social haves in Miami. In BALTIMORE.
My Fair Lady in COLUMBUS, Two for the Seesaw in MILWAUKEE, and The Music Man in CHICAGO do justice to the Broadway originals.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's characters are alone, afraid, in a world they halfway made. In LOS ANGELES.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. An exciting writer adds the spoke of politics to a projected tetralogical cycle (others: Justine, Balthazar) that wheels around the magnetic hub of Alexandria.
The Notion of Sin, by Robert McLaughlin. A coterie of non-blue chip sophisticates examined by a market analyst who knows both their prices and their values.
The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist.
Sight and Insight, by Alexander Eliot. With love and 20/20 vision, an art critic looks at the life of art and the art of life.
Collision Course, by Alvin Moscow, about the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, about the torpedoing of the British liner Athenia, are memorable accounts of nights to remember.
The Trial of Dr. Adams, by Sybille Bedford. One of those dramas in which London's Old Bailey tops the Old Vic.
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The humor and passion of a middle-aged teacher, in a major literary creation.
Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. A lively swearing of the green by Ireland's latest IRAte young man.
Eight Days, by Gabriel Fielding. A newly converted Catholic, soul seasoned in the sun of North Africa.
The Captive and the Free, by Joyce Cary. The late novelist's last rousing testament to freedom as creative action, proper or improper.
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The eternal validity of the moral struggle affirmed by a man who is living it.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)-
2. Exodus, Uris (2)
3. Lolita, Nabokov (4)
4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3)
5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5)
6. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico
7. Lady L., Gary (8)
8. Brotherhood of Evil, Sondern
9. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (10)
10. The Watch that Ends the Night, MacLennan (6)
NONFICTION
1. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (2)
2. Only in America, Golden (1)
3. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (3)
4. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (4)
5. Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins (5)
6. Collision Course, Moscow (7)
7. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (6)
8. Main Street, U.S.S.R., Levine
9. The Valadon Drama, Storm
10. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (9)
*All times E.S.T. *Position on last week's list.
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