Many British critics irate at Bette Davis' quaint old-waddling-duck performance in VIRGIN QUEEN. Said one: "... once again displays her unequalled talent as a female impersonator." Others cheered her as always .

Revised TEA AND SYMPATHY script okayed by Production Code Administra tion, with hints of homosexuality presumably erased. Story now highlights boy's unorthodoxy and illicit love for married woman. Robt. Anderson did own rewrite. John and Deborah Kerr Japanese critics and censors angered (no relation) retain roles from stage by showing of HOUSE OF BAMBOO Ingrid Bergman doing play in (understandable) and BLACKBOARD JUNGLE in Japan...

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DEER PARK, Mailer's novel of Hollymake a fair maiden blush. Partridge wood decadence, because of references concludes Shakespeare knew too many in his Jan. '55 essay in ONE. Putnam, heterosexual words to have been homo. $4. On all other counts he stretches words to invest them with sexual meaning; here he reverses.

BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ, Thomas Gaddis, Random House, 334 pp, $3.95. Not a gay book either, but sympathetic THE ROARING BOYS, Robert Payne, account of "lifer" who makes self 316 pp, $3.95, Doubleday, novel of authority on bird diseases, bucking opShakespeare's middle life, touching position of prison officials. fully on homosexuality.

YOUNG TORLESS, Robert Musil, THE DESERT AND THE STARS, A Pantheon, 217 pp, $2.95. 1st Engl. Biography of Lawrence of Arabia, Flora Transl. of novel of Viennese prewar Armitage, illus., 381 pp, $4, Henry decay; aristocratic military school. Holt, avoids both hero worship and

SEX IN CHRISTIANITY AND naive debunking. PSYCHOANALYSIS, Wm. Graham HERITAGE, Anthony West, 309 pp, Cole, $4, Oxford University Press, says $3.75, Random House, novel suggestChristian sex mores came more from ing autobiography, by son of H. G. Mystery Cults than Hebrew tradition; Wells and Rebecca West (unwed) of urges return to "real" Biblical tradition, problems of son of two unorthodox opposed to Freudianism. geniuses. Father accuses son of homosexuality.

SHAKESPEARE'S BAWDY, Eric Partridge, Dutton, $7.50, study of sex and THE OTHER MAN (title in England, bawdiness in Bard; antidote to old HOMOSEXUALITY), by D. J. West, $4, Bowdler, who cut from his home edition Wm. Morrow, fine, frank treatment of of Shakespeare anything that might general subject, perhaps best to date.

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