On Broadway

CINEMA

The Diary of Anne Frank. A massive and moving epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. A fine performance by Newcomer Millie Perkins as Anne, and brilliant direction by George Stevens.

Some Like It Hot. Director Billy Wilder gets as many laughs as possible out of the gimmick of female impersonation, largely because the impersonators are Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, and the object of their attentions a slightly pudgy but wickedly skilled comedienne: Marilyn Monroe.

The Sins of Rose Bernd (German). Unwed motherhood gets the winsome-smile treatment from celebrated Actress Maria Schell.

The Sound and the Fury. Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton in Hollywood's skillful, if carefully laundered treatment of a William Faulkner novel.

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 15

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-A lesson for the larcenous: a true tale of how U.S. customs agents cut up a diamond-smuggling ring.

Thurs., April 16

The Oldsmobile Theater (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A bedtime story about a onetime child star trying out various marriages, with Hurd Hatfield, Carol Lawrence. In two parts, with installment No. 2 coming up next week.

Laugh Line (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). TV may not be the best of all possible worlds for those far-out explorers, Elaine May and Mike Nichols, but they are canny enough to survive in almost any climate; the show is based on their ad-libbed comments about contrived, oddball tableaux.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Judgment at Nurnberg, a dramatic semidocumentary, with Claude Rains, Melvyn Douglas.

Fri., April 17

The Phil Silvers Show (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Time is running out for Sergeant Bilko, who will not return to the air next year, and fans will want to take a long last look. This episode, involving an attempt to tranquilize Bilko pharmaceutically, is as funny as most.

Sat., April 18

The Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Perry entertains robusty Whisperer Julie London.

Sun., April 19

Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). The art of the plastic surgeon. Wisdom (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Zen Buddhism discussed by its leading exponent in the U.S., Columbia University's Philosopher Daisetz Suzuki.

Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Fidel Castro.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Film clips of the brutal battle of Stalingrad, which changed the course of war on the eastern front.

World Congress of Flight (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A symposium on man's battle to get as far off the ground as he can, conducted by NATO's General Lauris Norstad, Physicist Edward Teller, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield.

Mon., April 20

Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Pete tangles with a pretty model while puzzling over the usual corpse.

THEATER

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 Mac-Leish's version lacks Biblical richness of speech and rigor of logic, it brings excitement to the theater.

La Plume de Ma Tante. This antic French revue is virtually speechless and so are its laugh-weary audiences.

Flower Drum Song. Rodgers & Hammerstein's blithe-spirited romp through San Francisco's Chinatown.

A Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill's trenchant portrait of an alcoholic innkeeper who cannot live up to his illusions.

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. The way of an Omaha man with a Greenwich Village maid is often funny and bittersweet.

My Fair Lady, The Music Man and West Side Story are three modern musical-comedy classics.

On Tour

The Warm Peninsula. Julie Harris as a Milwaukee miss who wants what some Miami socialites have got. In ATLANTIC CITY.

My Fair Lady in CINCINNATI, Two for the Seesaw in MINNEAPOLIS 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 CHICAGO.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The King's War, 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. History is a people's memory, and few have summoned up Britain's more vividly than Historian Wedgwood in this scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead.

Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. An exciting writer adds 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. An English widow sentenced under the law of diminishing returns to social work, the company of Angry Young Men, and bohemian sex.

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. The Old Bailey tops Old Vic in this courtroom drama.

Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A rage to teach fires some first-rate fiction about a child-intoxicated woman.

Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. A lively swearing of the green by Ireland's latest iRAte young man.

The Fig Tree, by Aubrey Menen. Nature gets the last laugh on Science in this aphrodisiacal spoof.

Eight Days, by Gabriel Fielding. A Roman Catholic convert is planted under the North African sun and tended with a Greene thumb.

Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. A skillful, honest and haunting love story.

Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The eternal validity of the moral struggle affirmed by a man who is living it.

The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider. A memorable profile of Sam Clemens.

Best Sellers FICTION

1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)*

2. Exodus, Uris (2)

3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4

4. Lolita, Nabokov (3)

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

6. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (6)

7. Lady L., Gary (7)

8. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (9)

9. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell

10. Nine Coaches Waiting, Stewart

NONFICTION

1. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (1)

2. Only in America, Golden (2)

3. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (3)

4. Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins (5)

5. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (4)

6. Collision Course, Moscow (6)

7. Brotherhood of Evil, Sondern

8. Eat Well and Stay Well, Ancel and Margaret Keys

9. The Valadon Drama, Storm (9)

10. The First Easter, Marshall

*Position on last week's list

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