Off Broadway
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 stone foreheads. With Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills.
The Cranes Are Flying (Russian). An engaging love story is lifted high by the wild, fast-moving techniques of Director Mikhail Kalatozov, who seems blissfully released from "Socialist realism."
Once More, with Feeling. The late Comedienne Kay Kendall gives one of her most accomplished performances in the cinemadaptation of the Broadway show. With Yul Brynner.
Ikiru (Japanese). An undistinguished man is dying of cancer. His search for goodness at the end of life becomes a distinguished and brutally ironic film under the masterful direction of Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa.
The Magician (Swedish). A magician of the 19th century, under the eye and hand of Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, comes alive on film to haunt audiences of the 20th.
Our Man in Havana. Alec Guinness and Noel Coward star in the film version of Graham Greene's spoof-and-stiletto novel.
Rosemary (German). When this real-life, highly successful prostitute was murdered in 1957, squads of West Germany's sleek industrial tycoons took to their Mercedes and fled the publicity. The film tells the story with sharply edged satire.
TELEVISION
Wed., March 23
U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-Richard (Have Gun) Boone takes off his shooting irons and gets tricked up as a circus "Charlie" (clown). Naturally, un der the makeup, he is another Pagliaccio.
Thurs., March 24
Revlon Review (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). One more musical revue, but this one has Dorothy Loudon, one of the funniest females ever to pop out of a picture tube.
Fri., March 25
TV Guide Award Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A satire that may go a long way toward knocking off some of the sur plus TV awards. Robert Young is host; Nannette Fabray and Fred MacMurray are supporting stars. Color.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). The life and death of one of Papa Hemingway's most successful characters: a writer who bartered his talent for a life of travel and ease. Robert Ryan and Ann Todd star, with Janice Rule, Jean Hagen and Mary Astor.
Sun., March 27
New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert (CBS, 1-2 p.m.). Leonard Bernstein continues in the role of genial host and garrulous narrator.
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The rumped-up Iwo Jima heroism and tragic alcoholic death of U.S. Marine Ira Hayes help make The American a bitter commentary on the life and hard times of America's Pima Indians. Stars: Lee (M Squad) Marvin and Steven Hill.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). First of a two-part series spelling out man's curiosity about the world's oceans. Guests on The Power of the Sea include Scuba Expert Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus, dean of the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota.
Tues., March 29
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tony Curtis turns nobler than Hollywood ever allowed him to be in The Young Juggler, story of a crippled itinerant entertainer who finds forgiveness for a life of selfishness and pleasure. Based on the famed story Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, by Anatole France. With Patricia Medina and Nehemiah Persoff. Color.
Garry Moore Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Jazz takes over as Garry welcomes Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme.
Korea, the Forgotten Front (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A documentary reminder of a war that has ended and a peace that never really came. The story of the G.I. garrison, 40,000 strong, that stands by for attack in "the land of the morning calm."
THEATER
Off Broadway
Henry IV Part I. Nicely balancing Shakespeare's broadsword heroics against his tankard humor, Manhattan's Phoenix Theater offers a play that has not always fared well with big names, here does an attractive job without any.
On Broadway
A Thurber Carnival. In the country of Humorist James Thurber, there is a nut behind every tree: Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, Alice Ghostley, Peggy Cass, John McGiver, in a cracking good revue.
Toys in the Attic. In one of Broadway's rare original plays, Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman once more proves herself both craftsman and writer, powerfully examines a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.) and his maiden sisters (Anne Revere, Maureen Stapleton).
Fiorello! La Guardia, New York's most colorful mayor since the last Canarsie Indian chief, bursts into life again on the musical stage in a light and delightful evening planned by Director George Abbott, accomplished by Actor Tom Bosley.
The Miracle Worker. Actress Anne Bancroft plays the Irish tutor who draws the deaf-mute child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) into the light of language. The play is uncoordinated, but the acting makes for a deeply moving evening.
The Andersonville Trial. A post-Civil War trial--of the officer who ran the notorious Andersonville prison camp--makes a vivid show, 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 skill. Deftly directed by Sir John Gielgud, with Jessica Tandy.
The Tenth Man. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's story about a young Jewish girl possessed by a dybbuk (evil spirit) succeeds as a genuine theater piece.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Frank Harris: The Life and Loves of a Scoundrel, by Vincent Brome. Less scatological but more truthful than Harris' own account of his life, this biography offers a good portrait of the turn-of-the-century British editor, lecher and liar.
A European Education, by Remain Gary. This early Gary novel, like its successor, The Roots of Heaven, draws its force from a protagonist who is "condemned to heroism"--in this case 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. The author, an ex-Communist, writes an absorbing memoir of his misadventures as a revolutionary, and in the process throws much light on 20th century history.
The Little War of Private Post, by Charles Johnson Post. The Spanish-American War now seems quaint as a mustache cup, but the author, who made the charge up San Juan Hill, writes movingly about both heroism and blundering.
Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. A brisk account of Grant's two-year metamorphosis from green and panicky officer to cool, hardened commander.
The Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor. In this chilling novel of backwoods religion the author writes extremely well, but sometimes seems to poke a cruel kind of fun at the confused and God-bedeviled.
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.
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.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*
2. Hawaii, Michener (2)
3. Two Weeks in Another Town, Shaw (5)
4. The Constant Image, Davenport (4)
5. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (3)
6. The Devil's Advocate, West (9)
7. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (7)
8. Kiss Kiss, Dahl (10)
9. Poor No More, Ruark (8)
10. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6)
NONFICTION
1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King ( 1 )
2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2)
3. Act One, Hart (4)
4. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn (5)
5. Grant Moves South, Catton (3)
6. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (6)
7. The Longest Day, Ryan (9)
8. This Is My God, Wouk
9. A Time in Rome, Bowen (10)
10. The Enemy Within, Kennedy
* All times E.S.T. *Position on last week's list.
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