CINEMA

101 Dalmatians. This sugary dog story is easily the wittiest, most charming, least pretentious cartoon feature that Walt Disney has ever made.

Breathless. A cubistic gangster film, with all the crazy humor, anarchic beauty and irrational coherence of a nightmare.

The Millionairess. British Comedian Peter Sellers emerges as a major international star playing that anomaly, an innocent doctor, in a remake of Bernard Shaw's comedy fable about the complications of being rich.

Two-Way Stretch. Sellers again, in a rock-pile farce about a prison prima donna who puts the screws on the screws.

Facts of Life. Middle-class manners and middle-aged morals are satirized in a quick, slick comedy played to perfection by Bob Hope and Lucille Ball.

Circle of Deception. The twist in this engrossing World War II spy piece: the nation commits treason against the citizen.

Other notable current works: Ballad of a Soldier, Make Mine Mink, The Angry Silence and The Wackiest Ship in the Army.

TELEVISION

Tues., Feb. 21

Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.)* "Man's First Winter at the South Pole," the story of the 18 men who faced six months of darkness, 102DEG-below-zero cold during the International Geophysical Year.

Alcoa Presents (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). In "Night of Decision," George Washington first decides to surrender the Revolutionary forces to the British, then sleeps on it; the ending of the dramatization will surprise no one.

Wed., Feb. 22

Perry Como's Music Hall (NBC, 9 10 p.m.). "Boy Meets Girl," the first of a three-part soap operetta, featuring--in the initial episode--Anne Bancroft and Jimmy Durante. Color.

The United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A science-fiction piece about a dimwit turned genius, thanks to surgery. With Cliff Robertson and Mona Freeman.

Fri., Feb. 24

Sing Along with Mitch (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Miller's guests: Guy Mitchell, Leslie Uggams and you. Color.

Eyewitness to History (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A top news story of the week, with Walter Cronkite.

Sat., Feb. 25

The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "Should Congressional Investigations of Loyalty Be Curbed?" California's Congressman James Roosevelt (yes) v. Martin McKneally, past national commander of the American Legion (no).

Sun., Feb. 26

Meet the Professor (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). Interview with Henry Lee Smith, linguist at the University of Buffalo.

Issues and Answers (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). "The Ladies of the New Frontier" introduces U.S. Treasurer Elizabeth Rudel Smith, Oregon Senator Maurine Neuberger and Washington Congresswoman Julia Butler Hansen.

The Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). "Jackie Gleason with Putter and Cue" pits the comedian against Golf Star Arnold Palmer and Billiards Champion Willie Mosconi.

Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with a talk by Lenny on musical works based on literary classics.

Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "France in Ferment" focuses on the nation's troubled youth, interviews Premier Michel Debre and Novelist Franc,oise Sagan.

Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The Prime Minister faces a motion of censure during the North African retreat, then turns the tide at El Alamein, begins the rout of the Desert Rats with the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa.

Mon., Feb. 27

Acapulco (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Refusing to let a dead dog lie--the Klondike series, which folded fortnight ago--Klondike's stars have turned into Mexican beachcombers for a new series. The premiere episode: "Killer in a Rose-Colored Mask."

THEATER

On Broadway

Rhinoceros. Avant-Gardist Eugene Ionesco's farcical-satirical assault on modern conformity.

A Taste of Honey. An unblinking look at some of the world's misfits and misfortunes, ringingly recorded by Britain's Shelagh Delaney.

Period of Adjustment. Tennessee Williams' deft but disappointing domestic comedy about two couples' problems of marital adjustment.

All the Way Home. A well-acted, tender adaptation of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family.

Advise and Consent. An unsubstantial but suspenseful piece based on the Allen Drury bestseller.

Becket. Although hardly a Murder in the Cathedral, Jean Anouilh's work is full of effective pageantry and well played by Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn.

Irma La Douce. A piquant and jaunty French musical fleshed out by the saucy insouciance of Elizabeth Seal.

Camelot. Worthwhile for its stylish sets, a few fine songs, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews.

Do Re Mi. A musical survivor thanks only to the shenanigans of Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker.

Show Girl. A zingy satirical revue brought off by Carol Channing.

An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Common targets attacked with uncommon hilarity.

Off Broadway

Call Me By My Rightful Name. A fresh, modest piece about a maladjusted triangle.

The American Dream. Young Playwright Edward Albee, who sometimes sounds like an American Ionesco, satirizes middle-class America.

Hedda Gabler. Anne Meacham is stunning in a welcome revival of the Ibsen classic.

BOOKS

Best Reading

A Burnt-Out Case, by Graham Greene.

Deadened in spirit as a leper is benumbed in body, a famed architect takes himself off to a leper colony, closely followed by a venal journalist intent on according him canonization-by-newsprint. Never has Greene stated more eloquently his lifelong argument with God.

The Real Silvestri, by Mario Soldati. An old friend learns shocking things about the title figure five years after his death, and the author skillfully rephrases an old truth--that most people know of others only what it is comfortable to know.

Skyline, by Gene Fowler. The 1920s again, this time described by Old Newspaperman Fowler.

First Family, by Christopher Davis. A skilled novelist examines a picked-over but exciting theme--what happens when Negroes move in next door.

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. Ill, edited by Leonard W. Labaree. Among other prizes, this volume contains Franklin's most important studies on electricity and Verses on the Virginia Capitol Fire, a witty parody of the fulsome prose of an 18th century governor prying more money out of his legislature.

The Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles--the still not fully explained theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette.

The Ice in the Bedroom, by P. G.

Wodehouse. The master's latest no-effort-at-all is as joyously addled as all the others.

Sermons and Soda-Water, by John O'Hara. In three related novellas, the author abandons his recent attempts to rewrite Remembrance of Things Past in American, and returns to his early task of concise, skilled social observation.

Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of parasite and host--the one a whining Navy goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (3)*

2. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (2)

3. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)

4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5)

5. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (4)

6. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (8)

7. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (7)

8. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (6)

9. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (9)

10. Shadows on the Grass, Dinesen (10)

NONFICTION

1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)

2. Who Killed Society? Amory (2)

3. The Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr (3)

4. The Waste Makers, Packard (4)

5. The White Nile, Moorehead (6)

6. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (5)

7. Born Free, Adamson (10)

8. Japanese Inn, Statler

9. Baruch: The Public Years

10. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (9)

* All times E.S.T.

* Position on last week's list.

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