The Theatre A MAKE-BELIEVE PARIS by Brendan Gill.

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

The Talk of the Town Rally by Marion Knox Barthelme. Talk story about a recent meeting at Citibank headquarters on behalf of the American Women's Economic Development Corporation (AWED). Three hundred and fifty women who own businesses attended the event for the group, which offers a highly successful management-training and technical-assistance program for women entrepeneurs, and whose federal...

The Talk of the Town Excuses by Alastair Reid. Talk story about the excuse writer received from a friend who was unable to meet him for a lunch the two had scheduled for one day last week. On the morning in question writer got a call from friend, who said that his girlfriend, a dancer, was away performing in...

The Talk of the Town Metropolitan Party by Laura Tennen. Talk story about a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, given by the Purchasing Dept., in honor of Theodore Ward, Manager of Purchasing. He is retiring after 45 years at the museum. Tells about some of the old photographs of events and employees stuck up on lockers along a...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. The press has taken the Reagan Administration's completion of 100 days in office as an occasion to sum up its performance since Inauguration. On foreign affairs the most frequent judgment has been that an excellent policy-"getting tough with the Russians"-has run into snags in being put into practice...

Fiction Freundschaft by Samson Raphaelson. Short story. Reminiscence by the 85-year-old playwright about his relationship with the movie director Ernst Lubitsch. The two worked on nine films together between 1930 and 1947, when Lubitsch died. Now, late in life, writer has begun to feel that Lubitsch meant much more to him, and, perhaps...

U. S. Journal THE MYSTERY OF WALTER BOPP by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: TUCSON, ARIZ., about Walter Bopp, the owner of two Tucson health-food stores who died in January, 1981. Although the immediate cause of Mr. Bopp's death was a pulmonary embolism, the mysterious events which led up to that death have caused a great deal of speculation about the...

Books Tilman by Jeremy Bernstein.

Fiction Venezuela for Visitors by John Updike. All Venezuela, except for the negligible middle class, is divided between the Indians (los indios) and the rich (los ricos). The Indians are very poor and range in color from mocha to Dentyne. They live depressed, fearful lives in shabonos--circular leantos woven of palm thatch, infested with giant insects...

A Reporter in Europe LONDON by Jane Kramer. A REPORTER IN EUROPE about Great Britain which is suffering from a loss of faith. The latest crises include 2 1/2 million unemployed, race riots in Brixton, Ulster close to civil war, Labour turned viciously against it self, a Prime Minister devoted to what is probably , best described as up...

Musical Events Nature's Voice by Nicholas Kenyon.

Concert Records / Popular Music Potpourri by Winthrop Sargeant.

Poetry Paradox of Time by Robert Penn Warren. Each day now more precious will dawn...

Poetry Lindenbloom by Amy Clampitt. Before midsummer density...