The Diary of Anne Frank. Director George Stevens, with a hatful of triumphs already to his credit, goes over the brim with a flawless and massive epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. Newcomer Millie Perkins, who resembles a younger Elizabeth Taylor, is almost all anyone could ask as Anne.
Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe's first movie role since The Prince and the Showgirl, nearly two years ago, leaves the impression that an earlier Monroe, with or without Miller and Method, was funnier, lusher, smarter. The movie is a fine, pie-throwing-style parody on gangsters and gagsters of the 1920s.
The Sound and the Fury. A shrewd, drastic revision of William Faulkner's labyrinthine novel, with almost every character fumigated. The acting by Joanne Woodward, Yul Brynner, Margaret Leighton is excellent.
The Sins of Rose Bernd (German). Maria Schell, suffering the pangs of unmarried motherhood, gives an often moving, sensitive performance.
The Mistress (Japanese). A poignant Eastern view of a fallen woman, who rises by union with nature, rather than by struggle against it.
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Ingrid Bergman as a London parlormaid called by God to be a missionary in China. Though blooped out to fill the Cinema-Scope screen, the story itself is strongly moving.
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. A fanciful satire about an Englishman in the cow country, roping and branding bovine Jayne Mansfield.
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A horrifyingly good monster picture for kids.
A Night to Remember. The gripping trial of the Titanic.
He Who Must Die (French). A modern Passion that makes one of the screen's most powerful religious statements in years.
TELEVISION
Wed., April 1
Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A medical whodunit in which New York public-health sleuths track an innocent dress buyer who carried in smallpox virus from Rio de Janeiro.
Thurs., April 2
Today (NBC, 7-9 a.m.). Part I of a two-dawn report (Part II: Fri., April 3, same hour) on the Berlin situation as the Russian deadline approaches. Host Dave Garroway will show news films, interview diplomats.
Zane Grey Theatre (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Edward G. Robinson acting for the first time with Son Edward Jr. in Loyalty, a Civil War skirmish involving Reb raiders.
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Latest refinement on Louisa May Alcott: a problem drama about the little women in a big-city home for young unwed mothers.
Fri., April 3
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). The week's hottest gunfight: a re-creation of The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca, an upright youth who gunned down a rampaging mob for 33 hours to bring order to a small New Mexico town in 1884.
Sun., April 5
College News Conference (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The usual student panel recesses for a tenth-anniversary Salute to NATO, by the foreign ministers of Britain, France, West Germany and Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter.
The Great Challenge (CBS, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). Part II of a symposium on U.S. journalism, with Presidential Secretary James C. Hagerty, New York Timesman James Reston et al.
Art Carney Meets the Sorcerer's Apprentice (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). A timely reunion of Actor Carney, Lyricist Ogden Nash and the Baird marionettes, who made a delightful TV debut last fall with Peter and the Wolf.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The short, unhappy life of Germany's pre-Hitler Weimar Republic.
The Lawless Years (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Premiere of a new drama series based on the Prohibition adventures of muscular Manhattan Detective Barney Ruditsky.
Mon., April 6
The Alcoa Theatre (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Repeat of Eddie, the cash-or-kill monologue about a small-time grifter (Mickey Rooney) trying to raise money to pay off a gambling debt.
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Repeat of Rod Serling's Time Limit, about a tormented daydreamer (William Bendix) who imagines the Pearl Harbor attack before it happens.
Academy Awards (NBC, 10:30 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). Hollywood's annual Class Day with the platform bending under Emcees Bob Hope, David Niven, Jerry Lewis, Sir Laurence Olivier, Mort Sahl.
THEATER
On Broadway
A Raisin in the Sun. The budding hopes, deferred dreams and inner conflicts of a South Chicago Negro family are movingly probed in a fine first play.
Redhead. A faltering musical whodunit kept on the spin through the matchless body English of Musicomedienne Gwen Verdon.
J.B. Out of the Bible and into modern dress with Job. An added tribulation is the flatness of some of Archibald MacLeish's poetry and dramaturgy, but all in all the evening is richly rewarding.
La Plume de Ma Tante. The French are too funny for words, and scarcely need or use them, in this madcap revue.
Flower Drum Song. A melting-pot musical about Chinese-Americans, routinely but deftly stirred by Chefs Rodgers & Hammerstein.
The Pleasure of His Company. As the errant father of the bride, guileful Cyril Ritchard stops the wedding music.
Two for the Seesaw. A Greenwich Village girl and an Omaha lawyer take love for a pick-me-up, and life is passingly sweet, sad and funny.
My Fair Lady raises a topper, The Music Man sounds a trumpet, and West Side Story swings a switchblade in three memorable musical salutes.
On Tour
My Fair Lady in CLEVELAND and Two for the Seesaw and The Music Man in CHICAGO adequately reflect the Broadway originals.
The Warm Peninsula. Julie Harris as a provincial have-not wants to join the social haves in Miami. In CINCINNATI.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. Politics mixes with sex and sadness in the third febrile novel (others: Justine, Balthazar) of a projected quartet about prewar Egypt.
The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist.
Collision Course, by Alvin Mosca, an account of the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, the story of the torpedoed British liner Athenia, skillfully raise ghost ships from the depths of forgetfulness.
My Fathers and I, by Eric Linklater. A comic gallery of historical portraits intended to show that the past is laughable, the present beneath contempt.
The Trial of Dr. Adams, by Sybille Bedford. Superbly styled proof that London's Old Bailey often makes for better drama than the Old Vic.
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The humor and passion of a middle-aged virgin, transmuted into the joy of teaching children. A major literary creation.
Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. A lively swearing of the green by Ireland's latest IRAte young man.
The Fig Tree, by Aubrey Menen. Some sprightly wit and stylish prose about an aphrodisiac fig.
Eight Days, by Gabriel Fielding. A newly converted Catholic, soul-seasoned in the sun of North Africa.
The Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late novelist's last rousing testament to freedom as creative action, proper or improper.
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book that renews all men by the courage of the man who wrote it.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)*
2. Exodus, Uris (2)
3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4)
4. Lolita, Nabokov (3)
5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5)
6. The Watch That Ends the Night, MacLennan
7. Nine Coaches Waiting, Stewart
8. Lady L., Gary (8)
9. The Devil in Bucks County, Schiddel
10. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (7)
NONFICTION
1. Only in America, Golden (1)
2. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (2)
3. What We Must Know About Communism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (4)
4. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (3)
5. Elizabeth the Great, Jenkins (8)
6. Nautilus 90 North, Anderson and Blair (5)
7. Collision Course, Moscow
8. Wedemeyer Reports! (10)
9. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (6)
10. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank
* Position on last week's list.
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