On Broadway

CINEMA

The Cranes Are Flying (Russian). Director Mikhail Kalatozov goes wild with his camera, achieves glorious effects of cutting and lighting, and lifts a banal love story into whirling flight.

Once More, With Feeling. The Broadway comedy loses some of its intimate wickedness in cold celluloid, but offers a last look at the late Kay Kendall, a lovely clown with a touch of genius.

A Journey to the Center of the Earth. A grandly entertaining spoof that follows James Mason on an underground journey from Iceland to Mount Stromboli. Made from Jules Verne's novel, with Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl.

Ikiru (Japanese). The last days of a quite plain man dying of cancer, his effort to do good before it is too late, the devastating ironies that follow his death. Perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa.

The Magician (Swedish). Brilliant Director Ingmar Bergman tells a Kafkaesque tale of a 19th century Mesmer.

Our Man in Havana. Graham Greene's novel makes a Britannically amusing film that begins as a good mockery of international spies, ends on the strop of political satire. Alec Guinness, Noel Coward.

Rosemary (German). The film version of the 1957 news story that set nearly every Homburg from Hamburg to Mannheim atrembling. One of the most sought-after prostitutes in West Germany, Rosemary was mysteriously strangled with one of her own stockings, and the case implicated some VIPs.

Ivan the Terrible: Part 2—The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin—which was the intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein.

TELEVISION

Wed., March 2

Music for a Spring Night (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Trying to give winter the brush-off some three weeks early, ABC introduces its new musical series. The first installment, The Sound of Spring, taps Debussy, Stravinsky, Rodgers & Hart and Rodgers & Hammerstein, stars Bill Hayes, Betty Johnson, the Metropolitan Opera's Rosalind Elias.

Fri., March 4

The Art Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). With Guests Roddy McDowall and Betty Garrett, Carney does a review that kids the American penchant for giving awards, awards, awards. Title: The Best of Anything. Color.

Sat., March 5

Show of the Month (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

Hugh Griffith is Long John Silver.

Journey to Understanding (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Ike in South America. Color.

Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Ike in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, including his evening at an Argentine asado (an outdoor barbecue).

Sun., March 6 Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). Project Transit explains a Navy satellite that is expected to revolutionize navigation.

The New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (CBS, 1-2 p.m.). For the second program of the series, Leonard Bernstein has invited a 14-year-old violinist, a 15-year-old cellist, and a nine-year-old narrator, who will accompany the orchestra in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.

Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). About 60 paintings of Rembrandt van Ryn are used to illustrate Rembrandt and the Gospel.

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