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Divorced. James Thurber, 40, one-eyed New Yorker writer, amateur artist famed for his shapeless women and droopy men (TIME, Dec. 31); by Mrs. Althea A. Thurber; in Bridgeport, Conn. Grounds: that he drank, was unfaithful, often got in fights which he invariably lost...
...Julia Glenn (Mary Philips) in the first scene of this play. Too bored to hand him her glass, she says: "I'm having not much fun." The acts that follow explain why not only Julia Glenn but Richard Niles (Kenneth MacKenna),the successful playwright who is her host; Althea Royce (Jessie Royce Landis), the aging actress who is his wife, and most of the other members of the large cast fail to enjoy themselves...
...second scene shows what happened in a smart restaurant seven years before the Niles party. Richard Niles punches the face of his friend Painter Jonathan Crale (Walter Abel) for implying that, by marrying Althea Royce, he is prostituting his talent. The third scene, a year before the second, shows how Richard Niles got involved with Althea Royce in the first place and how he treated his old friends when he first got rich. The fourth goes back a little farther and starts to unravel the story of Richard and his first wife, Althea and the producer she deserted when...
Aristocratic Samuel Talifer, an admiral At least, if mot a monarch in appearance, returned after ten years' absence to his native village, whose obvious though unstated locale is New England. There he met and fell in love with Althea. Disturbingly before their marriage he also met Karen, a heaven-wrought sheath...
...intellect and indifference, whose favorite reading in a hot New England summer is Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius Rhodius. In her Talifer imagined he saw an ideal of Peace, imagined he preferred it to the earthier happiness Althea offered him. Abruptly, after breaking with Althea to marry Karen, he was disillusioned, abruptly returned to his first love...