Word: thurberism
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...James Thurber has granted the Radcliffe Dance Group and Children's Theater permission to present a dance version of his story. "The Thirteen Clocks," without them paying him any royalties...
Although the Children's Theater is affiliated with the Harvard Dramatic Club, the Thurber adaptation, to be given sometime in March, will be done without the HDC's help...
Beauties of the Night is a Gallic treatment of Mr. Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Gerard's hero is a bit more purposive and coherent in his dreams, and the world into which he constantly reawakens is a bit more vicious, but the idea is the same. Phillipe plays a music teacher whose drams take him back into history. The dreams center about his success as a composer of operas, a soldier of fortune, and a wooer of beautiful women. One of these women is Gina Lollabrigia...
...51st Dragon, taken from the text by the late Heywood Broun, is the second cartoon in U.P.A.'s (United Productions of America) series of comic legends for moderns. Like the first, an animation of James Thurber's Unicorn in the Garden (TIME, Oct. 26), it is a nasal little ballad that ends with a sly intellectual hiccup. The admirers of Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker and Porky Pig are not likely to be broken up with hilarity. Still, it is refreshing to laugh at an idea instead of an oink, and the kidding of medieval styles...
...speakers gave seven-minute literary recitations, excerpts ranging from George Orwell to James Thurber...