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Unlike J. D. Salinger's stories, The Little Fugitive deals with a child who is more usual than unique. In the title role, Richie Andruseu, a Brooklyn seven-year-old, believe that he has killed his twelve-year-old brother. To avoid the police, he escapes by subway to coney...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: The Little Fugitive | 1/12/1954 | See Source »

Double teaming an absurdly delightful script are Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, both with notorious records for hilarity. Every hundred laughs they let Ralph Bellamy and some other supporting actors edge in to crack a few chortles. But the intrusions are little but hollow bows to the conventions of comedy...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: His Gal Friday | 1/5/1954 | See Source »

For those who have not yet found out, Mr. Thurber writes little pieces about parlor games, hobbies and travel, but most of the time he writes about himself. Thurber Country is the latest in a long and proud line of collections of these little pieces, and even by Thurber standards...

Author: By Harry K.schwartz, | Title: Thurber Country | 1/5/1954 | See Source »

Rudolph & Old Scrooge. Seattle's Bon Marché pictured Christmas as it used to be in the Old World, with huge copies of German, Austrian and Italian toys. In Washington, Woodward & Lothrop brought to life The Night Before Christmas, with sleeping children, animated sugar plums, Santa and his prancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Santa under Glass | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

With the exception of Glenn Burris, the Caliph, the other performers match Drake's buoyancy very well. Henry Calvin plays the Wazir of Police with a cheerful ghoulishness reminiscent of Fan court's Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wesely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than in Central...

Author: By George Spelvin., | Title: Theatre First Night | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

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