other stories. "The Staring Game" features two women discussing a boyfriend from the past, whose sexual orientation is doubtful, to say the least. This is a reverse twist on a previous O'Hara story, "Jurge Dul rumple," in which two lesbians discussed a hapless male suitor "The Jet Set" has a male homosexual theme as something of a surprise) and "Clayton Bunter" concerns the happy menage a trois made Clayton, his wife, and his sister up of

A recent paperback, Goodbye Charlie, has a most comical history In December 1959 the play, Goodbye Charlie, by George Axelrod, opened at the Lyceum on Broadway It starred Lauren Bacall as "Charlie" Charlie is a Don Juan who gets kill ed by an outraged husband for just cause and returns to earth as a beautiful woman in the flesh, and as good old licentious Charlie inside. The love interest is supplied by George, Charlie's best friend in his/ her former life. The play closed in March, 1960. One reviewer commented that the "audience visibly recoiled from the possibility

Now, in 1964, the play has been made into a movie and novelized by Marvin H. Albert published by Dell, 1964 to tie in with the movie release. For what assinine reason we cannot imagine, Debbie Reynolds is grossly miscast as Charlie.

Close dependent interpersonal relationships between three young men form the plot of Thomas Curley's long novel, Past Eve and Adam's, Atheneum, 1963. The overt homosexual element is relatively minor taken out of context but the overall involvement and the cause and effect results place this novel high on the list of required reading for those interested in the etiology of homosexual ity Philip Fay, the novel's tortured central character, is a masterpiece of characterization, and his battles over

his involvement with Gerald Weems are memorable.

they?" Gerald Maune writes to his “Wars kill a long time after, don't psychiatrist just before taking his own life in George Steiner's novella, "Sweet Mars." This, the longest of three novellas is Anno Domini, Lon don, Faber and Faber, 1964, and N Y., Atheneum, 1964. Gerald, however, is less a victim of the war and more a victim of his own inability to live in the present. He continually returns in his mind to his public school and college years in England, his romance with Reeve, a sun-streaked day with a boy in a native bazaar, his halcyon week with a Polish soldier, etc. On the other hand, he fights against his homosexuality, and Reeve who really loves him, tries to force him to face himself, and Gerald panics and kills himself. The other two novellas in the collection, while not pertinent, are male-oriented and enjoyable. Mr Steiner writes very well.

Another man who writes well, John Braine, is definitely less rewarding, for the reasons that make George Steiner a good writer, Mr figures are all sticks of wood in The Braine cannot draw people and his Jealous God, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1964, 1965. The former husband of the girlfriend of the hero in this tale of woe is a homosexual who has wisely absented himself from the and the roommate of the girlfriend is a lesbian

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in love in vain, of course) The poor former husband makes an appearance to supply the red herring ending of the book. Only for the patient reader, with a low supply of material.

Continuing examination of older collections of short stories seems to be unendingly potentially rewarding. Recently, in New Campus Writing #2, edited by Nolan Miller and Jud son Jerome, Putnam's, 1957, I found