CINEMA

A Lesson in Love (Swedish). The most natural and robust of Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's comedies is full of lucky directorial hits and preposterous misses, with marital fidelity the central subject up for dissection.

The Magician (Swedish). Also under the eye and hand of Ingmar Bergman, a magician of the 19th century comes alive to haunt audiences of the 20th.

The Poacher's Daughter. Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies--every one as harmless as the tines of a hayfork. With Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre.

Tiger Bay. A tautly drawn British suspense film about a fugitive killer and a little girl who has witnessed his crime.

The Cranes Are Flying (Russian). In a movie that is both wild and brilliant, Director Mikhail Kalatpzov lifts an ordinary love story into flight.

Ikiru (Japanese). A man tries to do good before he dies, succeeds, and brutal ironies follow, in a film that is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa.

Our Man in Havana. Alec Guinness and Noel Coward mix farcical comedy with political satire in the film version of Graham Greene's novel.

TELEVISION

Wed., April 6 U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.)* Robert (Elfego Baca) Loggia and Claude (Paris Precinct) Dauphin team up in How to Make a Killing, a lighthearted murder mystery set in 19th century France. Even the uninitiate can be sure that the victim will not be Guest Star Eva Gabor.

Thurs., April 7 Revlon Revue (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Co medians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding lead a pub crawl through Manhattan. Ob served en route: Singers Peggy Lee and Felicia Sanders, Dancer Jose Greco.

Fri., April 8 Art Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.).

Joseph Conrad's novel, Victory, makes its TV debut. Assisting Carney: Eric Portman, Lois Smith and Oscar Homolka.

Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.).

Playwright Rod Serling tells the story of a small boy whose Big Tall Wish helps his bruised father through a comeback in the prize ring.

Sat., April 9 Masters Golf Tournament (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). The 24th running of the big payoff to the winter golf tour. (Sun., 5-5:30 p.m.).

World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Living End is an earnest docu mentary about the problems and privileges of the aged.

Sun., April 10 Passover Theme -- and Variations (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Musical memories of the Jewish religious feast supplied by Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Guitarist Ray Boguslav and Pianist Carl Mossbacher.

College News Conference (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). In the first TV network interview following the Wisconsin primary, Senator Hubert Humphrey discusses his chances against Senator Jack Kennedy.

The Great Challenge (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). Third of a high-minded series moderated by Howard K. Smith. This time TV asks the question: "What Role Can Communications Play in Producing Effective Leadership?"

NBC Opera Company (2-4:30 p.m.). Mozart's masterpiece, Don Giovanni, with an English libretto by Poets W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, with Cesare Siepi, Leontyne Price, Helen George and Judith Radkin. Color.

Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Was Rommel a great tactician or an ineffectual opportunist? An interview with his chief of staff, Lieut. General Siegfried Westphal, helps track down the answer.

Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 6:30-8 p.m.). A new production of a TV classic. Helen Hayes, Judith Anderson and Siobhan McKenna star in James Costigan's adaptation of Cradle Song. Color.

Our American Heritage (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). David Wayne plays Andrew Carnegie in Millionaire's Mite, an investigation of the evolution of a philanthropist.

Mon., April 11

Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Ernie Kovacs and Henry Jones tackle Playwright Friedrich Duerrenmatt's Author at Work, a mystery with a reverse twist: an author is accused of the crimes he has written about.

THEATER

Off Broadway

Henry IV, Part I. The repertory group of Manhattan's Phoenix Theater is doing so well with Falstaff, Hotspur, and Prince Hal that they have decided to do Part II beginning April 18 (in alternate performances with Part I, beginning May 6).

On Broadway

The Tenth Man. In a suburban synagogue, a mentally-disturbed young girl is magically freed from the dybbuk (evil spirit) that possesses her, as Playwright Paddy Chayefsky mixes Jewish mysticism and modern psychology.

A Thurber Carnival. The nutty flavor of Humorist James Thurber is deftly brought to the stage in a revue with Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, John McGiver, Peggy Cass, Alice Ghostley.

Toys in the Attic. With power and insight, Playwright Lillian Hellman gives Broadway a first-rate original play, set in New Orleans, with Jason Robards Jr. as a weak ne'er-do-well whose sudden rise to fortune is more than his wife and maiden sisters can bear.

Fiorello! Audiences would almost swear that the croaking voice is coming from the shower in Gracie Mansion, as Actor Tom Bosley re-creates New York's Mayor La Guardia in a light, bright musical.

The Miracle Worker. Superb performances by Actresses Anne Bancroft and 13-year-old Patty Duke mow down the inherent problems in Playwright William Gibson's awkward script, movingly tell the story of young Helen Keller's emergence from darkness and silence.

The Andersonville Trial. Sharply theatrical treatment of a war-crimes trial after the U.S. Civil War that evokes (but never quite faces) the moral issues also raised by Nuremberg.

Five Finger Exercise. Subsurface warfare in a devastatingly familiar family. With Jessica Tandy, Roland Culver.

BOOKS

Best Reading

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles.

In this uncommonly fine first novel, a schoolboy discovers a knot of homicide within himself--and what he kills, the author appears to be saying, is his own youth.

Clea, by Lawrence Durrell. This fourth novel in Durrell's febrile and often brilliant tetralogy about a small world (contemporary Alexandria) is peopled by extraordinary grotesques.

The Edge of Day, by Laurie Lee. The British poet's unsentimental account of his boyhood in a rural village is rich in common truths uncommonly stated.

Commandant of Auschwitz, by Rudolf Hoess. A revolting book, but one that should be read: the autobiography of the SS captain, executed in 1947, who gassed 2,000,000 Jews at Auschwitz, but saw himself as a loyal officer carrying out a vexing assignment.

The Reluctant Surgeon, by John Kobler. A zestful biography of John Hunter, brilliant, eccentric 18th century surgeon who did as much as any man to turn surgery and pathology into sciences.

Frank Harris: The Life and Loves of a Scoundrel, by Vincent Brome. The notorious turn-of-the-century editor told all, and even more, in his celebrated autobiography; the present account has less color but considerably more truth.

A European Education, by Romain Gary. A Polish boy learns bitter lessons during the Nazi occupation.

Passage of Arms, by Eric Ambler. Flimflammery among gunrunners in the Orient.

The Owl of Minerva, by Gustav Regler.

An ex-Communist's absorbing memoirs of his misadventures as a revolutionary.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (1* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (2)

3. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (8)

4. The Constant Image, Davenport (4)

5. The Devil's Advocate, West (5)

6. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (3)

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

8. Kiss Kiss, Dahl (7)

9. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (10)

10. Aimez-vous Brahms . . , Sagan (9)

NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1)

2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2)

3. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn (3)

4. Grant Moves South, Catton (4) 5. Act One, Hart (5) 6. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (10)

7. Hollywood Rajah, Crowther

8. The Joy of Music, Bernstein (7)

9. This Is My God, Wouk (8) 10. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (6)

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