Cinema: Apr. 13, 1962

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Only Two Can Play. Peter Sellers plays a wan little Welsh librarian who decides he would rather study a blonde than bury his nose in a book.

Viridiana. Made in Spain on Franco's money but banned in Spain by Franco's decree, this peculiar and powerful film by Luis Bunuel predicts in parable the next Spanish revolution and contains an orphic orgy of Goyesque genius.

Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture. Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-comeback trail.

Through a Glass Darkly. Sweden's icily intelligent Ingmar Bergman infuses unexpected warmth of feeling into a darkly metaphysical drama that depicts the birth of God in the form of an enormous spider.

Last Year at Marienbad. A cinenigma worked out by two Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour), that has become the intellectual sensation of the year in films.

The Lower Depths. Akira Kurosawa's Japanization of the classic proletarian comedy by Maxim Gorky boils with demonic energy and rocks with large, yea-saying laughter.

The Night. The fashionable ailment of anxiety is skillfully anatomized by Italy's Michelangelo (L'Avventura) Antonioni.

Lover Come Back. Animadversions on advertising, wittily written by Stanley Shapiro and blandly recited by Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

A View from the Bridge. Arthur Miller's attempt to find Greek tragedy in cold-water Flatbush errs in concept but succeeds in details.

One, Two, Three. Billy Wilder's rough-house comedy describes a Berlin interlude in the life of a hardhearted soft-drink salesman (James Cagney) before the Wall put an end to monkey business as usual.

TELEVISION

Wed., April 11 Howard K. Smith (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Comment on the week's news events.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Ron Cochran narrates a documentary on modern developments in cancer therapy.

David Brinkley (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The Washington, D.C. monument dilemma and the Baird puppets in India. Color.

Thurs., April 12 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger is interviewed by Correspondent Eric Sevareid on this study of birth control and the law.

Fri., April 13 Young People's Concert (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in a concert featuring youthful soloists.

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