The League of Gentlemen. A British comedy of misdemeanors about a retired army officer who runs a commando-style bank robbery by "Queen's Regs."

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 heavy-handed 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.

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

TELEVISION

Wed., March 1

Perry Como's Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Perry's visitors this week include Songstress Janet Blair and the topflight comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Color.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Douglas Edwards narrates "The Fortune Tellers," a dramatization exposing crystal-ball racketeers.

Thurs., March 2

25 Years of LIFE (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). LIFE celebrates its first quarter-century with an elaborate TV party, including top entertainers and assorted celebrities under the general charge of Bob Hope. There will be a greeting from President Kennedy and a brief appearance by Editor in Chief Henry Luce.

CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In "A Real Case of Murder," the documentary examines the quality of justice in the U.S. Among the participants: Harvard Law School Dean Erwin N. Griswold and U.S. District Judge Irving R. Kaufman.

Fri., March 3

The Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). A science-fiction satire featuring Burgess Meredith.

Sat., March 4

Fight of the Week (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). World Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer defends his title against five-time Titleholder Sugar Ray Robinson.

Sun., March 5

Meet the Professor (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). An interview with University of Michigan Sociologist Morris Janowitz.

The Great Challenge (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). A symposium on international Communism. Panelists include Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). "Fierce, Funny and Far Out," a sampling of contemporary avant-garde theater, with William Saroyan commenting on scenes from Eugene Ionesco's The Killer, Edward Albee's The Sand Box, Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, and his own The Time of Your Life.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "The Burma Surgeon Today," a visit with Dr. Gordon Seagrave in his jungle hospital near the Red Chinese border.

Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "Sand and Snow" depicts the Casablanca conference, the Russian victory at Stalingrad, U.S. and British successes in North Africa.

Tues., March 7

Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A film of the death rites of the Camayura Indians, who still maintain a Stone Age existence on Brazil's Upper Xingu River.

NBC White Paper (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A survey of state and city government in the U.S.

THEATER

On Broadway

Comedie Francaise. In its first U.S. visit since 1955, the 300-year-old national company alternates works by Moliere, Racine and Feydeau.

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

A Taste of Honey. Some of the world's misfits and misfortunes, in a sweet-and-sour series of episodes.

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

Advise and Consent. Allen Drury's novel makes an unsubstantial but suspenseful theater piece about Washington politics.

Becket. Although hardly a Murder in the Cathedral, Jean Anouilh's work is full of eloquence and pageantry. 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, several fine songs, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews.

Do Re Mi. Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker are wonderful, the rest of the proceedings dreary.

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 revival of the Ibsen classic.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Harvest on the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov. The hero of this novel is a Communist, but so are most of the villains. Though Khrushchev reportedly twisted Sholokhov's wrist till he wrote a party-line ending, the book sings with an individualism that is remarkably nonMarxist.

Abandoned, by A. L. Todd. The Arctic Circle was outer space in the late 19th century. Lieut. Greely and his 24-man team got there; but only seven returned to tell their grisly tales.

If Thine Eye Offend Thee, by Heinrich Schirmbeck. A metaphysical novel about the role of science, argued with the wildly sprayed brilliance of early Aldous Huxley.

Man's Desiring, by Menna Gallie. In her brisk, garrulous and charming fashion, Novelist Gallie has created a dogged Welsh math teacher who keeps his village innocence amid the lean fleshpots and fat sophistries of an English university.

Here Comes Pete Now, by Thomas Anderson. The New York waterfront serves as background to an oblique parable of man's groping, with Beckett and Kafka overtones.

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 upon 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 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, with gusto.

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. III, edited by Leonard W. Labaree. Among other prizes, this volume contains Franklin's 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 theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette.

Best Sellers

FICTION

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

2. Advise and Consent, Drury (3)

3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (4)

4. Hawaii, Michener ( 1 )

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

6. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (9)

7. Decision at Delphi, MacInnes (8)

8. The Chess Players, Keyes

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

10. Rabbit, Run, Updike

NONFICTION

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

2. Who Killed Society?, Amory (2)

3. The Waste Makers, Packard (4)

4. The White Nile, Moorehead (5)

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

6. Born Free, Adamson (7)

7. Japanese Inn, Statler (8)

8. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (10)

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

10. Baruch: The Public Years (9)

* All times E.S.T.

* Position on last week's list.

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