Onward and Upward with the Arts I-THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHACHAJI by Ved Mehta. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about filming a television documentary in India. The principal subject of the film was a poor, elderly relative of the writer's called Chachaji. The man, whose real name is Bahali Ram, is 83, a first cousin of the writer's father. He is a proverbial...

The Talk of the Town Quartet by Lillian Ross. Talk story about the Muir String Quartet, which won first prize recently in a contest against eleven other quartets in Evian. Harold Shaw, of Shaw Concerts, Inc., offered to represent them professionally. The four musicians--Michael Reynolds (cello), Joseph Genualdi (1st violin) Bayla Keyes (2nd violin), and Steven Ansell (viola...

Musical Events Hero by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town You Don't Get to Know a Chicken the Way You Do a Horse by James Stevenson. Talk story about an interview with Rudy Ugland, the proprietor of Rudy Ugland's Motion Picture Livestock and Equipment Company. For 22 years he has been training horses (and other animals) for movies and television shows. Mr. Ugland was in New York for the first time recently for the on-location...

The Current Cinema Boys and Girls by Pauline Kael. Review of "Urban Cowboy." The bad seed for this film was Aaron Latham's article "The Urban Cowboy," in the Sept. 12, 1978 issue of Esquire. James Bridges directed the movie from a screenplay he wrote with Latham...

Fiction Dulse by Alice Munro. Lydia, the narrator, is a 45-year old editor and poet from Ontario. She has recently broken up with her boyfriend, Alex, with whom she had lived in Ottawa. At summer's end Lydia has come to be in New Brunswick for a few days, and she is staying at a...

Jazz Number Twenty-Six by Whitney Balliett.

Comment by James Stevenson. One day last week, at five in the morning, when Columbus Avenue was still gray-blue, a skater zoomed out of Eighty-fourth Street on red-neon wheels the color of Walk-Don't Walk signs, did a couple of spins and whirls, and vanished down Eighty-fifth without a sound...

Fiction Now at West Egg by Veronica Geng. Once I wrote down on the empty spaces of a time-table the names of those who came to Gatsby's house that summer. It is an old time-table now, disintegrating at its folds... But I can still read the gray names.O - The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Leading...

Comment Saturday by Ian Frazier. Talk story consisting of comments of young spectators overheard at a twelve-hour model-sailboat marathon, held on the Seventy-second Street Pond one recent Saturday. The event was sponsored by Cutty Sark whiskey and presented by the Central Park Model Yacht Club...

The Theatre HAPPY RETURN by Brendan Gill.

Poetry That Saturday without a Car by Stephen Dunn. Five miles to my mother's house...