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, based on Jules Verne's novel, follows James Mason as he descends into an extinct volcano in Iceland, spends almost a year underground with such companions as Plucky Youth Pat Boone and Beautiful Widow Arlene Dahl, is coughed back up through the crater of Mount Stromboli. A grandly entertaining spoof.

Ikiru (Japanese) is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism.

The Magician (Swedish) Something of a magician himself, brilliant Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman unfolds an eerie tale of a mid-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) is 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.

The Bridal Path. In a kilt-edged romp, Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers is back in the heather highlands, rolling his rs downhill toward laughing low-roaders in the audience.

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 conscious intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein.

Ben-Hur. Hollywood's $15 million behemoth achieves a rare distinction: a super spectacle that lives up to its adjectives.

TELEVISION

Wed., Feb. 24 Eyewitness to History (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Part of Ike's trip to South America is covered in The President in Brasilia, first of three reports.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Reginald (Twelve Angry Men) Rose contributes The Cruel Day, a play set in revolution-torn Algeria. With Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Cliff Robertson, Phyllis Thaxter.

Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Guests: Anne Bancroft, Bert Lahr, Kay Starr. Color.

Olympic Winter Games (CBS, 11-12 p.m.). Seventh of the series. Further installments reporting the progress of the games on Thurs., Feb. 25 (11-12 p.m.), Fri., Feb. 26 (9-10 p.m., and 11 p.m.-- All times E.S.T. 12 midnight), and Sat., Feb. 27 (4:307 p.m.). On Sun., Feb. 28 (2-5 p.m.), the 80-meter ski jump, victory awards and closing ceremonies. All on CBS.

Fri., Feb. 26

Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). CBS's second report on Ike in South America shows the President in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Sat., Feb. 27

John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Through the beginning careers of five young people, Gunther gives a Canadian Profile, from the Maritimes west.

Journey to Understanding (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). NBC gets its own cameras into action to follow Ike through Brazil and Argentina, also shows Nikita Khrushchev in India, Burma, Indonesia.

Sun., Feb. 28

Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). A New Look at the Universe, featuring Dr. Herbert Friedman, physicist with the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.

Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Navy Commander George Bond emerges from a "sunk" submarine, and Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger dives toward earth from an altitude of 76,000 ft., in a program that illustrates the increasing problems of escape (and how they are solved) as man goes ever higher into space and ever deeper into the sea.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The program takes a retrospective look at The Turn of the Century, shows (for the first time outside an Amsterdam film archive) a sequence in which Mrs. Alfred Dreyfus leaves the Paris military prison where her husband was held. Right behind her is Emile Zola. Other strips of film show Pierre Renoir, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, George Bernard Shaw, Sarah Bernhardt, Pavlova, Sacha Guitry, Edward VII, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor Franz Josef, British Suffragette Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, Leo Tolstoy, James M. Barrie.

Mon. Feb. 29

The Bing Crosby Show (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guests on the Bingle's special: Perry Como; Philip, Dennis and Lindsay Crosby.

THEATER

The Deadly Game. A Friedrich Duer-renmatt 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 stages the military court case involving 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 apartness and snapping tension nearly kill a stranger among them, in a play manipulated quietly and expertly by Playwright Peter Shaffer.

Fiorello! Actor Tom Bosley puts the craoking 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 altogether worthwhile evenig of theater. With Anne Bancroft and 13-year-old Patty Duke.

BOOKS

Best Reading

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 flaccid 20th-century.

Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. The Civil War now take longer to read about than it ook to fight, but the latest book is a good one: a description of Grant's two-year metamorphosis from hesitant commander to superb tactician.

A Heritage and Its History, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. In impeccably stylized dialogue, the autor writes her 16th ostensibly comic novel, brimful of the vanity of human wishes and the tragic fatality of ancient Greek drama.

The Wayward Wife, by Alberto Moravia. Sombre 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. nd Frederick A. Pottle. Roistering 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. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*

2. Hawaii, Michener (2)

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

4. Poor No More, Ruark (5)

5. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (3)

6. Two Weeks in Another Town, Shaw, (9)

7. The War Lover, Hersey (8)

8. The Constant Image, Davenport

9. Fuel for the Flame, Waugh

10. Where the Boys Are, Swarthout

NONFICTION

1. Act One, Hart (2)

2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (1)

3. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (3)

4. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn (4)

5. This Is My God, Wouk (8)

6. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (6)

7. Grant Moves South, Catton

8. The Armada, Mattingly (9)

9. The Longest Day, Ryan (5)

10. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (10)

* All times E.S.T.

* Positon on last week's list.

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