CINEMA

Tiger Bay. A fast-moving British film that follows a killer and a little girl around Cardiff, produces enough suspense to bring sweat to stoniest foreheads.

The Cranes Are Flying (Russian). Director Mikhail Kalatozov's extravagant camera thaws away some of the puritanical morality of the revolution and lifts one woman's crime and punishment into a whirling, vital love story.

Once More, With Feeling. In the screen adaptation of the Broadway comedy, Yul Brynner tends to break arms instead of tickling funny bones, but the late Kay Kendall shows that she was a lovely clown with a touch of genius.

Ikiru (Japanese). A hard-eyed, nail-by-nail examination of a common man's Calvary, and perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, Japan's most gifted moviemaker.

The Magician (Swedish). Brilliant Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman uses his own magic to tell the haunting story of a 19th century Mesmer.

Our Man in Havana. Graham Greene's bestseller makes an amusing screenplay that first wildly spoofs espionage, then uses the dagger to tickle the ribs with social satire. Alec Guinness, Noel Coward.

Rosemary (German). The life and death of a high-priced prostitute add up to a biting, highly amusing commentary on West Germany's Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle), effectively using masses of black Mercedes as a kind of silent chorus and some highly worth-Weill songs to underscore the satire.

TELEVISION

Wed., March 16 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC 9-10 p.m.).--Guests: Bing Crosby and a hatful of his boys, Dancer Peter Gennaro, Talker-Singer Genevieve. Color.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Through the troubles of a university professor, the problem of suicide (20,000 case's yearly in the U.S.) is examined in The Desperate Season.

Thurs., March 17 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Kicked out of the Dominican Republic last month--but not before they had shot 85,000 ft. of film--CBS Correspondent Bill Leonard and his crew strike back with Trujillo: Portrait of a Dictator.

Fri., March 18 The Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Victor Borge's Accent on Music. Guest: Jane Powell. Color.

Sat., March 19 John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Restless John goes to sea, begins a two-part report on the commercial chase after tuna.

World Wide '60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Madeleine Carroll narrates Where Is Your Brother, Abel? a documentary on European refugee camps.

The Jack Benny Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Phil Silvers, Polly Bergen.

Sun., March 20

Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). A documentary on a difficult operation that has brought instant hearing to ears long deaf.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The story of Patton and the Third Army.

Our American Heritage (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Christopher Plummer, Anne Francis, Ann Harding and Sir Cedric Hardwicke in Autocrat and Son, about the early life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Color.

Special Tonight (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). An adaptation of Marcia Davenport's novel, The Valley of Decision.

Tues., March 22

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Directed by Broadway's Sidney (Caligula) Lumet, James Mason, Trevor Howard and Richard Basehart star in an adaptation of Robert Shaw's new novel, The Hiding Place, (TIME, Feb. 22). The plot: R.A.F. flyers are prisoners of a crazed German.

Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Rex Harrison stars in Dear Arthur, Gore Vidal's adaptation of a comedy-drama by Ferenc Molnar.

THEATER ]

Henry IV, Part 1. Nicely balancing Shakespeare's broadsword heroics against his tankard humor, Manhattan's Phoenix Theater offers a play that in modern times has not always fared well with big names, here does an attractive job without any.

On Broadway

A Thurber Carnival. An animated anthology of pen-and-pencil work by the most splendidly mad of modern humorists. In Thurber's often uniquely wonderful and instructive world, everyone is to some extent out of his mind. Among the kooks: Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, Alice Ghostley, Peggy Cass, John McGiver.

Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's new play about a weak ne'er-do-well slaps a lethargic Broadway season into awareness, is written with power and insight.

The Andersonville Trial. A post-Civil War Trial--of the officer who ran the notorious Andersonville prison camp--makes a vivid evening on Broadway, although it never pays off on its promise to plunge to the bottom of the moral issues it raises.

Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer knows a tormented family when he sees one, and manipulates its members with dramatic skill. Deftly directed by Sir John Gielgud, with Jessica Tandy.

Fiorello! The early career of New York's colorful mayor comes alive as a bright and pleasant musical. With Spit-and-Image Tom Bosley.

The Miracle Worker. Although William Gibson's play about the young Helen Keller often lacks skill, it becomes a deeply moving theatrical experience through the performances of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

The Deadly Game. Three retired European men-of-law nightly meet for dinner and a sort of moot-court parlor game. An American salesman happens in, is tried for his morally slipshod life. Adapted by James Yaffe from a Friedrich Duerrenmatt novel.

BOOKS

Best Reading

A European Education, by Romain Gary. This early Gary novel, like its successors, draws its force from a protagonist who is "condemned to heroism"--a Polish boy whose lessons, learned during the Nazi occupation, are bitter and shattering.

Passage of Arms, by Eric Ambler. The latest amble into fear, a fable of gunrunning in Indonesia, is more lighthearted than the author's customary cloak-and-Luger exercises, but just as entertaining.

The Owl of Minerva, by Gustav Regler. This first-rate memoir of an ex-Communist, far from the customary exercise in self-justification, tells of the author's misadventures in the century's wars and revolutions, offers insight into the politics and morals of his age.

The Little War of Private Post, by Charles Johnson Post. The author, a magazine writer-illustrator until his death in 1956, fought in the Spanish-American War and charged up San Juan Hill, writes vividly of the heroes and dunderheads he traveled with.

Queen Mary, by James Pope-Hennessy. The official, coolly shrewd biography of Britain's late Queen Mary reveals, despite thickets of titles, a remarkable woman, anachronistic though never absurd.

The Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor. A kind of horror story of faith, about backwoodsmen intoxicated with God and hate.

Between Then and Now, by Alba de Cespedes. Writing with unsettling skill about what it is like to be female, the author tells of a woman who discovers that the bonds of freedom can be more confining than those of family.

Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl. The author concentrates largely on the female of the species in these stories, and proves Kipling's point about its toxicity with chilling wit.

Love and the French, by Nina Epton. A review, with one eye on the lofty mystery of love and the other hovering at the keyhole, of the Gallic love parade through history.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Advise and Consent, Drury (2)*

2. Hawaii, Michener (1)

3. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (8)

4. The Constant Image, Davenport (3)

5. Two Weeks in Another Town, Shaw (5)

6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6)

7. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley

8. Poor No More, Ruark (7)

9. The Devil's Advocate, West (4)

10. Kiss Kiss, Dahl (10)

NONFICTION

1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1)

2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2)

3. Grant Moves South, Catton (5)

4. Act One, Hart (4)

5. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn (3)

6. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (6)

7. The Status Seekers, Packard (8)

8. Love and the French, Epton

9. The Longest Day, Ryan (7)

10. A Time in Rome, Bowen

* Position on last week's list.

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