The Theatre BATHHOUSE BLUES by Brendan Gill.

Comment by Joseph Morgenstern. A friend in Pacific Palisades, Calif. writes that he had to ask his neighbor George to turn his telephone down. It's a cordless. He was phoning at poolside, right under the writer's bedroom window, while he was still trying to sleep. George wasn't talking so loud, but the lady on...

Profiles WITNESS by Mel Gussow. PROFILE of Athol Fugard, South African playwright. He was born in Middleburg on June 11, 1932. When he was three the family moved to Port Elizabeth. His father played for a time with a band, then retired from all remunerative activity & sank into a life of indolence &...

The Talk of the Town Honors by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about a weekend trip to Washington for the Kennedy Center Honors, a movable feast of parties, testimonials and live entertainment which celebrates the careers of five distinguished Americans in the performing arts. This year they were George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Eugene Ormandy, Benny Goodman, and Gene Kelly. The...

Books Albert Camus by V. S. Pritchett.

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. Roman Laba is a 38-year-old American, working for a University of Wisconsin doctorate in political science. Last month he was arrested in Poland for "activities noxious to the Polish state," and thrown out of the country. He was an exceptional Solidarity scholar and the union's first and only...

Musical Events Vintages by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Hard to be Good by Bill Barich. 15-year-old Shane goes to live for the summer with his mother, Susan, and her third husband, Roy Bentley, at their ranch in the redwood country north of San Francisco. Shane has been living for the past 3 years with Susan's parents, the Harrises, in Annaheim. Part of the...

Dancing Ballerina by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Looking for Their People by Kennedy Fraser. Talk story about the gala opening of the Belle Epoque costume show at the Metropolitan Museum. The organizer of the show is Mrs. Diana Vreeland, the special consultant to the Metropolitan Costume Collection. Writer gives her impressions of the elegantly-dressed crowd and others in attendance. Photographers were galvanized into...

Poetry Tannenbaum by Tony Curtis. Wooden strawberries, tinsel pythons...

Poetry French Apache Dance by Alex Wagner. You spoke with the tongue of an angel...