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People ought to dedicate public buildings to James Thurber and sing to his memory on holidays. At least they should read his books and, those who can, go to see Dunster House's excellent production of A Thurber Carnival...
...Thurber assembled the piece several years before his death. In a humble, un-self conscious and altogether pleasant way, it is an experiment in total media. Dramatic readings, with more acting and less reading, depending on the piece, are accompanied by a quiet jazz piano; his cartoons and illustrations are projected above the set, sometimes as asides to the stage work and sometimes as the center of attention...
...everything works at once: not everything Thurber did, not everything director Robert V. Edgar does. "The Night the Bed Fell," for example, is a wonderful short story, a classic, but too much a narration to succeed on stage. "Gentlemen Shoppers," a happy drunken burlesque of modern fashion salons, should play well, but some sloppy acting by John R. Munger, Christopher Hart and Tom Popovich make it a bit tedious...
SEATTLE. A Contemporary Theater. A Thurber Carnival, by James Thurber, Aug. 2-15; Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Physicists, Aug. 16-29; Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace, Aug. 30-Sept. 11; Harold Pinter's The Collection and The Room, Sept...
...doubles, Adelsberg and Benjamin teamed up to beat Chandler and Thurber, 12-9. Adelsberg and Benjamin will have to improve on yesterday's sloppy play if they are to win the crucial matches against Princeton and Pennsylvania. Kileff and Dave Hodges played second doubles, while Friedman and senior Disny Adams won the last match...