Word: saralinda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understanding to her body so that the Golux was consistently right and helped the whole thing go along. Her protectorate, Prince Zorn by Glenn Goldberg, was gracefully awkward and cloud-eyed as he followed the only Golux over the Duke's dead body to the hand of the Princess Saralinda. Goldberg and Miss Davidson were most always very good at being what they should...
...Duke did not come quit so well. Richard Chaffee confused too often the sophisticated evil of the Duke with the organic writhings of a monster. Ruth Emerson, as his niece, the Princess Saralinda, contrasted warmth and serenity with the Duke's icy fingers nicely when she first came on. But she did not bend as Thurber expanded her into the floating symbol of molested maidens...
Alas, the geese were very fat, for many a princeling came seeking the hand of the Princess Saralinda, the winsome ward of the dastard Duke, and all of them met a dire fate-all, that is, except Prince Zorn of Zorna...
...Thirteen Clocks is James Thurber's fairy tale of how Prince Zorn, with the help of a mysterious character named Golux, brought time to life, Saralinda to wife, and the Duke to a hideous hereafter. Like all good fairy tales-and The Thirteen Clocks is one of the cleverest that any modern writer has been able to tell-Thurber's story may mean only what it says; it may also mean a good deal more that the author has characteristically made no attempt to spell...
Guggle to Zatch. Children will perhaps know best what to make of the evil Duke who sets good Prince Zorn such a fearful price for the hand of Princess Saralinda...
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