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Maria Golovin (NBC, 5-7 p.m.). Gian Carlo Menotti's latest opera, short-lived on Broadway (TIME, Nov. 17) in a two-hour, full-color reincarnation. With original stars Franca Duval, Patricia Neway and Richard Cross.
Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Ingrid Bergman on an international hookup with New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther and Independent Producer Darryl F. Zanuck.
The General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). The Marx Brothers are only two—Chico and Harpo—in this new farce called The Incredible Jewel Robbery.
Mon., March 9
The Greatest Show on Earth (ABC. 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Ernie Kovacs as M.C. of a peek at the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, broadcast from Charlotte, N.C.
THEATER
On Broadway
Redhead. Gwen Verdon triple-treats the customers to a feast of dancing, singing and acting, but the rest of this musical whodunit is pretty undernourished.
Requiem for a Nun. With a moving intensity that transcends technical flaws, Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner lights up the dark night of one woman's soul.
J. B. A 20th century morality play by Archibald MacLeish, expressing modern man's torment in terms of the Book of Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a hollow ending, it is compelling theater.
La Plume de Ma Tante. This acrobatty French revue is written with, by, and for the funnybone.
Flower Drum Song. East meets West, but Broadway takes over both in this run-of-the-pagoda musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein.
A Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill fashioned the season's best drama around a boozed-up innkeeper and the illusions that hold him up.
My Fair Lady, with Edwardian charm, The Music Man, with mid-America hominess, and West Side Story, with Manhattan rumbles, make a trio of musical magic carpets.
Two for the Seesaw. A Manhattan hoyden and an Omaha lawyer pool their loneliness and put a funny, touching accent on love.
On Tour
My Fair Lady in DETROIT and Two for the Seesaw and The Music Man in
CHICAGO are fair facsimiles of the Broadway originals.
The Girls in 509. Bedfellows make strange politics in this Rip Van Winkleish farce starring Peggy Wood as a violent
Republican recluse and Imogene Coca as her niece. In CHICAGO.
The Warm Peninsula. A case of buoy-meets-girl as Actress Julie Harris gets in Miami's glamour swim. In MILWAUKEE and CHICAGO.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Eight Days, by Gabriel Fielding. A thriller with theological overtones of grace and disgrace that may leave Graham Greene with envy.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider. Mark Twain jotted down 500,000 words of notes about Sam Clemens, and the twain meet memorably in this skillful edition.
Kitchener, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden.
A Medicine for Melancholy, by Ray Bradbury. A fine collection of short stories by science fiction's suavest purple people greeter.
Unarmed in Paradise, by Ellen Marsh. A sordid setting combined with soaring passion make for one of the best love stories in years.
Across Paris, by Marcel Ayme. Twelve fanciful short stories by a French novelist gifted in the art of the impossible.