CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 6, 1960

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Bye Bye Birdie. A bodacious teen-rage crooner (Dick Gautier) emits a rousing rock-'n'-roll call, and among those who follow it in this rambunctious musical are a howling pack of teen-agers and leggy Dancer Chita Rivera.

Duel of Angels. The icy virtue of Mary Ure, as a self-righteous Lucrece, is soon broken by the vice of Vivien Leigh, in a glowing performance of Jean Giraudoux's last play.

Toys in the Attic. The women in a family discover an unpleasant fact of life in Lillian Hellman's taut drama: when their one man gets rich, he no longer needs their smothering care.

The Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky digs deep into Jewish mythology to find a cure for a girl with a very modern malady.

The Miracle Worker. In William Gibson's story of the dark life led by blind little Helen Keller, Patty Duke as Helen and Anne Bancroft as her teacher Anne Sullivan give radiant performances.

Fiorello! A bright musical sprays old New Yorkers with nostalgia, informs Cholly-come-latelies that La Guardia is more than an airport.

West Side Story. Back in town with essentially the same cast, this milestone dance-musical of 1957 follows its serious theme—gang warfare in Manhattan slums —as movingly as ever.

Off Broadway

Henry IV, Part I alternating with Part 11. As revived at the Phoenix Theater, Shakespeare's roustabouts have rarely been merrier or Falstaff such an effective blend of pretense and pathos.

The Prodigal. A brilliantly modern Orestes.

The Balcony. In Jean Genet's ironic comedy, a house is not only a home but the whole world, and the pleasures bought there are not only of the flesh but of the imagination.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Homage to Clio, by W. H. Auden. At 53, Poet Auden may long ago have said everything he had to say, but his talent remains prodigious, and in this collection of poems written during the last five years, his ruminative restatements are often effective.

The Big Ward, by Jacoba van Velde. The Dutch author writes without tricks or sentimentality about an ordinary old woman who accepts death with dignity.

Through Streets Broad and Narrow, by Gabriel Fielding. The author follows the hero of two earlier novels (Brotherly Love, In the Time of Greenbloom) to Ireland; there, amid torrents of brilliant but overplotted prose, he finds that shamrocks can be harder than granite.

The Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author is now a docile party-liner, but in 1927, when he wrote the short novel Envy, which heads this paperback collection, he was a satirist well able to see the terrors of the new robot society.

The Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth in a projected cycle of eleven novels about Britain's New Men—the scientists, bureaucrats and educators who form a new upper middle class—this book is an expert, ironic and somewhat sluggish examination of a scientific scandal at a major British university.

Venetian Red, by P. M. Pasinetti. A wry, old-fashioned novel of modern Venice, concerned with such formidable matters as love, death, courage and the Fascist corruption of Italy.