Word: thurberism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Popping off in Detroit during a pre-Broadway tour of A Thurber Carnival, Humorist James Thurber, 65, got to talking to local newsmen about history and women. Said he: "Women are taking over the world because they are blandly unconcerned about history. I once sat next to a woman who asked, 'Why did we have to purchase Louisiana, when we got all the other states free?' I explained to her that Louisiana was owned by two women -Louise and Anna Wilmot-and that they sold it to General Winfield Scott, provided he'd name it after them...