girl who's a melan macrophallophile nympho. After driving Leona to insanity by his brutality, Rufus kills himself early in the book.

Story No. 2 involves the Silenskis. Richard Silenski is a sensitive writer whose sudden "success" with trashy output undermines the Bohemian happiness he's enjoyed for many years with his devoted but strong-willed and highly-sexed aristocratic wife, Cass.

Story No. 3 is about Vivaldo Moore, an Irish-Italian young man bent on being a writer, without much to show for it. The best friend Rufus had (with some latent homosexual touches), he becomes after Rufus' death the lover of Rufus' sister Ida who shares her brother's one track mind about the evils of white people. Which hardly helps her already difficult life as a white man's mistress.

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Story No. 4 involves a young homosexual actor from the South named Eric Jones, who after a bitter affair with Rufus, went off to "exile" in France. In France he has not only prospered professionally, but has attained the happiest period of his life in having found true love with a French ex-hustler named Yves who by his love for Eric has become good. Eric has to part from Yves to seize a great professional opportunity in the U.S. but promises to send for him as soon as he's settled, Sure enough, Eric does get himself on the road to great success on both the stage and and screen, and incidentally, has two torrid affairs, a rather surprising heterosexual one with Cass and a homosexual one with Vivaldo. Which means that he has sex with four out of the six other major characters.

The novel closes with the rather unusual touch that the future of the two remaining heterosexual couples is left in some doubt but no doubt is left about the happy future-at least for several years-of the homosexual couple as Eric and Yves rush into each other's arms at the airport. In fact, in the lives of the various characters (at least the portions covered in the book) the heterosexual ones seem to have all the horrible problems and the homosexual ones by comparison seem to just "have a ball."

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mattachine REVIEW

Les Arts

Jai

by DAVID LAYNE

THE HOSTAGE: This off-Bdway revival (considered by many to be better than the "on-Bdway" original) is in its 12th month at One Sheridan Square Theatre and is probably the gayest play in Manhattan. Imagine in legit-theatre: a tall Irish wristwaver flounces on stage with another boy moments after the curtain and explains when caught sneaking him up the staircase, "He's my brother." Not funny? Ah-but the other boy is an American Negro! The two are nearly as normal as anyone else in this Dublin lodging

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(?) house. There are two or more loose women, various types of men,

a couple of very irreverent religious types, an embittered soldier who either has or hasn't lost the use of

a leg, and a gentleman known as "Monsewer"-an ego-maniac who thinks of himself as the Napoleon of the Irish Revolution, which provides the historic background of the play.

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The title role is that of a British soldier of 19-charmingly played by Geoff Garland-being held by the I.R.A, Brendan Behan,, the author, casts both positive and negative comments at all sides (not merely both sides) of the political question as well as at honor, courage, sex, religion, and international relations (there's a song about Kruschev and the moon). O, yes-THE HOSTAGE has music too. It's a sort of playwith-music (and comedy, drama, and boys dancing together).

Rio Rita (the willowy one of the waving wrists) and Princess Grace (his American friend) provide most of the homosexual repartee, but the entire show is a pretty gay romp! The nice, innocent country girl, in discussing the assemblage, says of Rio Rita: "I like that tall skinny fellow-there wasn't anyone like that in the convent." There haven't been many shows like this one!

"Marlon on the Bounty" would be my title for Mr. Brando's latest and largest film. Don't stay away from it because it's a "spectacular." It is, but it's also a showcase for some

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