Word: humorists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television has been digging away at the antic works of Humorist James Thurber ever since the 1949 production of The Catbird Seat. Last week TV served up two hour-long helpings of Thurber. The Robert Montgomery Presents adaptation of The Greatest Man in the World was almost a complete failure, but on the Motorola TV Hour (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC), Director Donald Richardson struck pure gold in his version of Thurber's fairy story, The Thirteen Clocks, set to music by Mark Bucci...
...bill are Algernon Black-wood's A Physical Invasion and Theophile Gautier's Clarimonde. In the Blackwood story, a professional humorist takes a drug which he hopes will increase his sense of humor. It does, but it also invites a visit by a female "Intruder" who turns all his best jokes into "diabolical ideas of evil and tragedy...
...confused with Humorist E. B. White's mouse' of the same name...
...born in a hotel and brought up in three countries,'' Humorist Ludwig Bemelmans tells his daughter Barbara when she asks why all the characters in his books are crazy. "And then I lived in other hotels . . . and the only people you met were odd ones . . . Upstairs was a collection of Russian grand dukes and French countesses, English lords and American millionaires. Backstairs there were French cooks, Rumanian hairdressers, Chinese manicurists, Italian bootblacks, Swiss managers, English valets . . . When I was sent to America to learn the hotel business here, I ran into the same kind of people...
...friendly editor of a country newspaper, struggling against the pressures and prejudices of small-town life. Homespun, slow-spoken Will (who used to be publisher of California's Beverly Hills Citizen) drops pearls of wisdom in the quizzical voice, if not the skeptical manner, of his humorist father. Says Will: "This is a good, sensible little program. I may not feel at ease yet, but I think I'm getting there." Unsponsored...