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...well as the hero of a lively minor cult on college campuses. Much of his new and far inferior book takes place in Italy, south of Rome, but the characters and attitudes are standard sub-Mason-Dixon. The two central figures are Mason Flagg, a rich neurotic dilettante, and Cass Kinsolving, an alcoholic hack painter. The plot, insofar as there is one, advances at a glacial pace towards the question of what Flagg and Kinsolving had to do with the brutal sex-murder of an Italian peasant girl...
...Thurber Carnival. In the country of Humorist James Thurber, there is a nut behind every tree: Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, Alice Ghostley, Peggy Cass, John McGiver...
...Thurber Carnival. An animated anthology of pen-and-pencil work by the most splendidly mad of modern humorists. In Thurber's often uniquely wonderful and instructive world, everyone is to some extent out of his mind. Among the kooks: Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, Alice Ghostley, Peggy Cass, John McGiver...
...have suggested." The demonstration continues with a round of well-known Thurber fables, and with a dry-mannered Tom Ewell as a TV pet counselor, and an amusing Paul Ford having trouble in one skit getting rid of a mermaid and in another getting rid of his wife (Peggy Cass), and then with both men tipsily shopping in Fifth Avenue's tonier shops. Or people rewrite poems for an anthology that is to be uncompromisingly cheerful...
...Thurber Carnival is a retrospective review attempting to bring to the stage some of the humorist's funniest work. Directed by Burgess Meredith, with a cast that includes Tom Ewell, Peggy Cass, Paul Ford and Alice Ghostley, the show played St. Louis last week, midway in a six-city tryout tour. When Thurber himself missed the St. Louis opening, his wife explained that her near-blind 65-year-old husband was in his hotel room energetically polishing and rewriting lines. Wrote cautious Globe-Democrat Critic Herbert L. Monk: "A Thurber Carnival does seem to have the makings...