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SLASK (MUZA). The Polish Song and Dance Ensemble sings songs of Silesia (Slask).
EWA DEMARCZYK (MUZA). A 45 r.p.m. of Miss Demarczyk, who is a chansonist of the Cracow Cave Group, singing songs of an "intellectual type" such as Karuzela z Madonnami (The Merry-Go-Round with Madonnas).
CINEMA
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee's drama about a venomous all-night orgy on faculty row has reached the screen with every four-letter word intact. And Elizabeth Taylor, playing bitch-wife to Richard Burton's hagridden husband, proves that there is powerhouse talent on both sides of the family.
A BIG HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY. Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards head the cast of a rowdy indoor western about a high-stakes poker session. Only a trick ending flaws Director Fielder Cook's shrewd blending of hot hands and ham instincts.
THE NAKED PREY. Man hunting in Africa a long dark century ago, with resourceful Director-Star Cornel Wilde as the sole survivor of an ill-fated safari, who becomes fair game for savage warriors.
AND NOW MIGUEL. Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, Island of the Blue Dolphins) scores again with the sturdy tale of a Mexican-American lad (Pat Cardi) growing up on a sheep ranch.
LE BONHEUR. Young love and marriage prove to be mixed blessings in French Director Agnès Varda's cynical fable of infidelity, superficially as pastel and pretty as a Renoir painting.
BORN FREE. A sociable lioness named Elsa is as winning on the screen as she was in Joy Adamson's celebrated animal biography.
MANDRAGOLA. A cool Renaissance beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) defends her virtue to the next-to-last gasp but turns out to be a good loser in Italian Director Alberto Lattuada's lively version of Machiavelli's comedy.
MORGAN! Black comedy in the new British mode, with Vanessa Redgrave as a madcap London socialite and David Warner as her former husband who changes reality around to suit himself.
DEAR JOHN. The subjects of this perceptive essay on sex in Sweden are a sailor and a girl who spend a weekend learning that there is more to their relationship than lust at first sight.
THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Well deserving of its Oscar, the of best its foreign to film of the year owes much of its Josef Krōner and Ida Kaminska as a couple of harmless villagers who have to work out their own answers to the Jewish question in Nazi-dominated Czechoslovakia.
BOOKS
Best Reading
JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. The man who wrote the first great biography in English becomes himself the subject of one that is rich and delightful.
THE BIG KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. These collected early detective stones are every bit as fresh as they were 40 years ago, and demonstrate why the many imitators of Hammett's realistic tough-guy technique are just that —imitators.
THE LAST GENTLEMAN, by Walker Percy. A meditative novel by a meditative Southern novelist, about a young Southerner whose daydreams provide the meaning he cannot find in life.
MR. CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN, by Justin Kaplan. A new biography that illuminates with scrupulous impartiality and great fidelity the dark side of America's most successful—and most tormented 19th century humorist.