CINEMA CINEMA

A Lesson in Love (Swedish). In a comedy of morals as well as manners, brilliant Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman presents a riskily sophisticated satire about marital fidelity.

The Magician (Swedish). Bergman in another mood tells the story of a smalltime 19th century Mesmer whose mystical mask covers an ordinary man (but is he really?) forced by poverty to be a "ridiculous vagabond, living a lie."

The Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green sod.

Tiger Bay. With masterful suspense, the camera moves through a Cardiff slum, following a young sailor who has murdered in disappointed passion, but cannot kill the only witness to his crime.

The Cranes Are Flying (Russian). In a movie that is both wild and brilliant, Director Mikhail Kalatozov catapults an ordinary love story into flight.

Ikiru (Japanese). A man tries to do good before he dies, succeeds, and brutally ironic agonies follow. Perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa.

TELEVISION

Wed., April 13

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-The story, based on police case histories, of a small-time racketeer who tries to build nickels and dimes into big money in The Numbers Racket.

Fri., April 15

Jerry Lewis Timex Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). During any Lewis variety show, there are sure to be at least a few samples of pure Lewis looniness. Color.

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Ed and Keenan Wynn fight it out as a real-life father-and-son team when The Man in the Funny Suit looks into the backstage squabbles during the production of Rod Serling's award-winning teleplay, Requiem for a Heavyweight. Even Serling plays himself.

Sat., April 16

Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Andy Williams in The Man in the Moon, a musical special, with Lisa Kirk, Tony Randall, Diahann Carroll, Bambi Linn and Jester Hairston. Color.

World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Along The Way of the Cross, TV cameras will retrace Christ's last walk from the judgment seat of Pilate, step by step to Calvary.

Sun., April 17

Easter Services. CBS presents Roman Catholic and Protestant services from the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the National Cathedral in Washington (10 a.m.-12 noon). NBC presents Catholic Mass from St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, Cincinnati (11 a.m.-12 noon). ABC presents Bishop Pike's Easter Meditation (12:301 p.m.).

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:307 p.m.). Rare films of a rare time and place, Paris in the '20s, re-create a Who's Who of the Lost Generation: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Colette, Josephine Baker, Mistinguett, Marilyn Miller, Harpo Marx, etc.

Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Easter music and ballet, with the University of Utah Corps de Ballet and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

The Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A show produced entirely with actors under twelve attacks an old question: "Are Children Really People?" Guests: Jay (Dennis the Menace) North, Jerry (Leave It to Beaver) Mathers and Angela Cartwright of The Danny Thomas Show. Color.

Tues., April 19

Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "Well, What About You?" is a special nonpartisan argument to get out the vote. On hand to urge cooperation: Vice President Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, Senator Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Thruston Morton and Paul Butler. Color.

Alcoa Presents (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). First of a two-part series on Peter Hurkos, a survivor of Nazi terror in The Nether lands. As a result of injuries suffered while an underground agent, Hurkos claims psychic powers that have helped solve 27 murders in 17 different countries.

THEATER

On Broadway

Toys in the Attic. Playwright Lillian Hellman slaps a lethargic theater season into awareness with this taut, powerful drama about a weak ne'er-do-well's sudden acquisition of wealth. Jason Robards Jr. heads a fine cast.

A Thurber Carnival. The nutty flavor of Humorist James Thurber is deftly brought to the stage in a revue with Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, John McGiver, Peggy Cass, Alice Ghostley.

The Tenth Man. In a suburban synagogue, a mentally disturbed young girl is magically freed from the dybbuk (evil spirit) that possesses her, as Playwright Paddy Chayefsky mixes Jewish mysticism and modern psychology.

The Miracle Worker. Superb performances by Actresses Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke overcome the inherent weaknesses in William Gibson's often moving play about young Helen Keller's emergence from darkness and silence.

Five Finger Exercise. British Playwright Peter Shaffer .deftly bangs five heads together, almost hard enough to bring death to one. Directed by Sir John Gielgud, with Jessica Tandy, Roland Culver.

Off Broadway

Henry IV. The repertory group of Manhattan's Phoenix Theater is doing so well with Part I that it will tackle Part II beginning next week (in alternate performances with Part I, beginning May 6).

BOOKS

Best Reading

D'Annunzio: The Poet as Superman by Anthony Rhodes. An entertaining biography of the fabulous Italian poet-soldier, whose antics intoxicated Italy with blood, glory and poppycock, and did much to prepare the nation for the grim Mussolini hangover.

Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. The natural history of the bathroom may be an unlikely subject, but the author's wit and scholarship make this book better bathtub reading than most novels.

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. In this uncommonly fine first novel, a schoolboy discovers a knot of homicide within himself--and what he kills, the author appears to be saying, is his own innocence.

Clea, by Lawrence Durrell. The fourth novel in Durrell's febrile and often brilliant tetralogy exploring a small world (contemporary Alexandria) peopled by grotesques.

The Edge of Day, by Laurie Lee. A serene, charming and unsentimental account of the British poet's boyhood.

Commandant of Auschwitz, by Rudolf Hoess. That the most debased of criminals can be self-pitying and even self-righteous is proved in this grim memoir by the SS captain, since executed, who gassed 2,000,000 Jews at Auschwitz.

The Reluctant Surgeon, by John Kobler. John Hunter, the brilliant and eccentric 18th century medical experimenter, is well portrayed in a readable biography.

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

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 deadliness with chilling wit.

The Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. Finding words for the things that are too terrible for words, the author writes a moving, fictionalized chronicle of his descent into blindness.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (1 )* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3. Ourselves To Know, O'Hara (6) 4. The Constant Image, Davenport (4) 5. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (3) 6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (9) 7. Kiss Kiss, Dahl (8) 8. Two Weeks in Another Town, Shaw (7) 9. The Devil's Advocate, West (5) 10. Aimez-vous Brahms . . , Sagan (10)

NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe From Tigers, King (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (10) 4. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (6) 5. Grant Moves South, Catton (4) 6. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn (3) 7. Act One, Hart (5) 8. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (8) 9. Hollywood Rajah, Crowther (7) 10. Queen Mary, 1867-1953, Pope-Hennessy

*All times E.S.T. -Position on last week's list.

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