Word: thurber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motorola TV Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Rathbone, Roberta Peters...
...brilliant if tantalizingly subjective musing on art through the ages. In a year when books on flying saucers and interplanetary travel became commonplace, Jonathan Norton Leonard brought the subject back to earth in his informed and sensible Flight into Space. For humor it was a sad, unsmiling period. Thurber Country, a book of characteristic sketches, was James Thurber at his second best, but standing alone in a shrinking field, it was more than ever welcome...
Robin Homet, as Professor Tommy Turner, is called upon to be drunk, to be eloquent, to be amorous. Homet not only handles all these individual assignments excellently, he ties them into a sharp, consistent characterization. Too often actors playing the crusading professor let the wit of authors James Thurber and Elliot Nugent carry scenes for them. In Homet's battle with liquor in the second act, however, there is no coasting. It is his highest point in an evening of good touches...
Remembering the point, readers who have long treasured James Thurber's cold little classic may rest easy about the first attempt to animate on the screen the characters in Thurber's cartoons. The Unicorn in the Garden-directed by Bill Hurtz of Stephen Bosustow's gifted crew at U.P.A., which has in the last two years produced Gerald McBoing-Boing, Mr. Magoo and The Tell Tale Heart-is the subtlest of the lot. The Thurber Male looks just as he always does-browbeaten by the Thurber Female, and the unicorn is so attractive that he will make...
...taste in ties. Consequently, he left much of his poetry "unfinished . . . dissipated his talents . . . lived in a world of unrealized dreams . . . was always on the verge of doing something and . . . never did it." Oddly enough, it is the image of Coleridge -dissipated, useless and lovable as a Thurber dog-that lingers in the mind long after Dorothy has finished with her tips...