On Broadway
CINEMA
The Cranes Are Flying (Russian). Director Mikhail Kalatozov goes wild with his camera, achieves glorious effects of cutting and lighting, and lifts a banal love story into whirling flight.
Once More, With Feeling. The Broadway comedy loses some of its intimate wickedness in cold celluloid, but offers a last look at the late Kay Kendall, a lovely clown with a touch of genius.
A Journey to the Center of the Earth. A grandly entertaining spoof that follows James Mason on an underground journey from Iceland to Mount Stromboli. Made from Jules Verne's novel, with Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl.
Ikiru (Japanese). The last days of a quite plain man dying of cancer, his effort to do good before it is too late, the devastating ironies that follow his death. Perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa.
The Magician (Swedish). Brilliant Director Ingmar Bergman tells a Kafkaesque tale of a 19th century Mesmer.
Our Man in Havana. Graham Greene's novel makes a Britannically amusing film that begins as a good mockery of international spies, ends on the strop of political satire. Alec Guinness, Noel Coward.
Rosemary (German). The film version of the 1957 news story that set nearly every Homburg from Hamburg to Mannheim atrembling. One of the most sought-after prostitutes in West Germany, Rosemary was mysteriously strangled with one of her own stockings, and the case implicated some VIPs.
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2--The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin--which was the intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein.
TELEVISION
Wed., March 2
Music for a Spring Night (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Trying to give winter the brush-off some three weeks early, ABC introduces its new musical series. The first installment, The Sound of Spring, taps Debussy, Stravinsky, Rodgers & Hart and Rodgers & Hammerstein, stars Bill Hayes, Betty Johnson, the Metropolitan Opera's Rosalind Elias.
Fri., March 4
The Art Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). With Guests Roddy McDowall and Betty Garrett, Carney does a review that kids the American penchant for giving awards, awards, awards. Title: The Best of Anything. Color.
Sat., March 5
Show of the Month (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Hugh Griffith is Long John Silver.
Journey to Understanding (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Ike in South America. Color.
Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Ike in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, including his evening at an Argentine asado (an outdoor barbecue).
Sun., March 6 Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). Project Transit explains a Navy satellite that is expected to revolutionize navigation.
The New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (CBS, 1-2 p.m.). For the second program of the series, Leonard Bernstein has invited a 14-year-old violinist, a 15-year-old cellist, and a nine-year-old narrator, who will accompany the orchestra in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). About 60 paintings of Rembrandt van Ryn are used to illustrate Rembrandt and the Gospel.
The Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 3-4:30 p.m.). Golf, as played by Pros Sammy Snead and Dow Finsterwald, Amateurs Ray Milland and Robin Roberts.
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Filmed in a Harvard psychology laboratory, the program tries to explain "What Makes Us Human?", shows how science measures learning and conditioning.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Japan's Changing Face concentrates on the youth of Japan, traces the deep changes of attitude that have occurred since the day of the kamikazes.
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A young architect attempts to replace his dead father as a circus magician in Turn the Key Deftly, an original mystery by Alfred Bester, with Julie Harris, Francis Lederer and Maximilian Schell. Color.
The Jack Benny Show (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Jack's guests: Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood.
Mon., March 7
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tomorrow, an adaptation of a William Faulkner short story, with Kim Stanley, Richard Boone, Beulah Bondi and Charles Bickford.
Tues., March 8
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). With Guests Woody Herman, Vaughn Monroe, Freddie Martin and Jo Stafford, Hubbell Robinson's tiring series tries to acquire some zip with The Swingin' Singin' Years. Color.
The Garry Moore Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests will be Comic Alan King and Roberta Sherwood.
THEATER
The Deadly Game. A Friedrich Duerrenmatt novel adapted by James Yaffe makes a play of some moral and theatrical merit. Retired European men of law place a brassy American salesman on trial in a kind of parlor game. It turns out to be a spider's parlor. With Claude Dauphin. Max Adrian, Pat Hingle.
The Andersonville Trial. In the dock: the Confederate officer who ran the deadly prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. Although never paying off on its promise to get to the bottom of the moral issue it raises, the play's bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater make a thought-starting evening on Broadway.
Five Finger Exercise. An English family's hopeless un-togetherness and snapping tensions nearly kill a stranger among them, in a play manipulated quietly and expertly by Playwright Peter Shaffer, well staged by Director John Gielgud.
Fiorello! Actor Tom Bosley puts the croaking little mayor back under his fire hat in a well-made little musical.
The Miracle Worker. William Gibson's treatment of the early life of Helen Keller falls short of masterful playwriting, but adds up to a moving and worthwhile evening of theater. With Anne Bancroft and 13-year-old Patty Duke.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Between Then and Now, by Alba de Cespedes. With rare skill and unrelenting candor the author writes of a woman who rejects the bonds of husband and family only to find that freedom can be a burden, too.
Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl. The master of the grisly grin concentrates largely on females in these stories, and the results will make most householders regard their wives, cats and landladies with renewed suspicion.
Love and the French, by Nina Epton. A keyhole view of the subject from the hard-jousting Middle Ages to the seemingly weary 20th century.
Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. Grant's astonishing evolution from a faltering, fear-stricken officer in his first Civil War battles to a masterful commander two years later, told with the author's customary skill.
A Heritage and Its History, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. The 16th of the writer's novels is just like its predecessors: from a well-worn, faintly ludicrous tangle of love, marriage and the family are drawn insights sophisticated as sin.
The Wayward Wife, by Alberto Moravia. Somber short stories by an author who writes well of neurotic lovers, better of the vast spaces that separate them.
Brazen Chariots, by Robert Crisp. The inferno of tank warfare has never been better described than in this book by a South African major in the British army who fought Rommel at Tobruk.
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. Bozzy settles down to marriage and his law practice, but his exuberance soon gets the better of him. Volume VII of the Yale series.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Hawaii, Michener (2)*
2. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)
3. The Devil's Advocate, West (3)
4. The Constant Image, Davenport (8)
5. Two Weeks in Another Town, Shaw (6)
6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5)
7. Poor No More, Ruark (4)
8. Exodus, Uris
9. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara
10. The War Lover, Hersey (7)
NONFICTION
1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (3)
2. Act One, Hart (1)
3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2)
4. The Constant Image, Davenport (8)
5. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (6)
6. This Is My God, Wouk (5)
7. Grant Moves South, Catton (7)
8. The Longest Day, Ryan (9)
9. The Status Seekers, Packard
10. The Armada, Mattingly (8)
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*Position on last week's list.
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