The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Princess Yang Kwei Fei", directed by the Japanese Kenji Mizoguchi, who died in 1956. The picture was made in 1955 and is now playing at the New Yorker...

The Talk of the Town Two Lives by Philip Hamburger. Talk story about Bruce M. Minnix, one of three directors of "Search for Tomorrow", the longest running soap opera in TV history (22 years), and newly elected mayor of Cape May, New Jersey. Tells about his election. He ran for mayor on a reform ticket. To be elected he had...

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: MANHATTAN; A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE ZAPPING OF THE INNER CIRCLE by Calvin Trillin. US JOURNAL about the N.Y. gay-liberation movement & the attitude of the press towards homosexuality. Homosexuals have charged the "News" & the "Times" with "media oppression," & they protested at the April press dinner of the Inner Circle. This protest ended in the alleged beatings of G.A.A. members by...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. It would be fair to suggest that Mr. Mellon has the leading three-year-old filly in Summer Guest. The winner of the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont last month, she motored down to Monmouth and won another Oaks - the Monmouth - there on the Fourth of July...

Fiction The Life in Green by John Batki. Story about a young man's experience in the Army. It was easy to get in. A quick physical and then a written exam on the history of military flowers. The bird of paradise, tiger lily, lily of the valley, poppy, forget-me-not, and gardenia are described in terms of...

Comment by Whitney Balliett. In many ways, the Park Avenue of the Seventies and Eighties and Nineties, with its facing, frowning rows of castled apartment houses which reduce the sky to a meaningless ribbon and pedestrians to impertinences, is the cold heart of American urbanization. But the other day, as we were heading downtown...

The Talk of the Town On Clarinet by William Whitworth. Talk story about Woody Allen, actor, writer, and now clarinet player. Reporter heard him play at Michael's Pub on E. 48th St., where he plays every Monday night in a 7-piece traditional jazz group...

Annals of War VIETNAM III-A CAVE ON KARL MARX MOUNTAIN by Frances FitzGerald. ANNALS OF WAR about the National Liberation Front movement inS. Vietnam & the Marxism of HoChi Minh. Discusses the social, political & technological achievements of the N.L.F. in the South. It built a gov't. & an army out of the disordered & intractable society of S.V. This change, of a...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Harold Rosenberg.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town The Upper Deck by Victor Chen. Talk story about the NY Yankees, who used to be unpopularly successful, and are now unpopular, period. McNally is a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. Mentions a game played last year in which he pitched...

Fiction The Soft Core by Arturo Vivante. Story about a family in Italy. David went to call his ailing 80-year old father to dinner with his family and found him in a state of confusion. It was not so bad this time as the last, which had occurred five or six months before. That time David...

Poetry The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop. From narrow provinces...