Word: thurberism
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AFTER a period of years on the French the N. Y. Herald Tribune, James turned to find friend Elliot a perennial youth in way plays which, like Kempy and Poor Nugents, father and son, had written for to play in. Both Nugent and Thurber are to be characters in the Poor Nut, a college play...
...actor, Ohio State haunted hi. He played leads in movies as College Life and College Window. To break the jinx, he turned director, so he made She Loves Me Not (in which Bing Crosby was a Princeton student) and College Scandals. By this time people every where were studying Thurber's nonsensical "telephonebooth" drawings in the New Yorker and laughing at whatever they thought the drawings meant. James Thurber has written an autobiography, My Lige and Hands and collaborated on Is Sex Necessary? Elliot, no such questions in Hollywood, has just directing Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland Never Know...
...will as long as men have illogical minds and unruly imaginations. The Museum's walls historically carried fantastic art from the horror pictures of medieval Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, through the engravings of Hogarth, to the comic cartoons of Rube Goldberg and the frustrated drawings of James Thurber. Prominently displayed as examples of fantastic art were copies of Edward Lear's Nonsense Rhymes, Lewis Carroll's Jabber-wacky. This week's exhibition did not disdain the art of the frankly insane. There was a panel of wild designs by a crazed French banknote engraver...
...WARREN THURBER...
Married. James Grover Thurber, 40, famed one-eyed author and artist of The New Yorker; and Helen M. Wismer, pulp writer; in Colebrook, Conn...