Word: thurbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pausing briefly in Manhattan, Character Actor Charles Laughton explained why he was touring the country in one-night stands, giving two-hour readings of the Bible, Shakespeare, Dickens, Lincoln, Thomas Wolfe and James Thurber to enraptured audiences: "Where else could I get a job that enables me to play all of the roles? . . . Reading out loud is a friendly thing to do, don't you think? It's like a hot toddy or a warm glass of milk before bed. It brings everyone together as though they were rubbing their hands before a fire...
...Yorker readers who scanned the anniversary issue might get a deceptive sense that things have changed not at all: with a sentimentality that he would loudly scorn, Editor Harold Ross had rounded up contributions from such time-honored New Yorker favorites as E. B. White, James Thurber, Ogden Nash, John McNulty, Peter Arno, Gluyas Williams and the late Helen Hokinson. Readers with a long memory could even pick up the fourth part of a "profile"* of the late Playwright Wilson Mizner where Alva Johnston left off eight years...
...Weidman's version of James Thurber's Fables for Our Time, which proved as witty as it had at first showing at Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., two years ago (TIME, July 28, 1947). As the man who comes upon a unicorn in his garden, as a chipmunk and as The Owl Who Was God, rubber-faced Dancer Weidman proved himself just about the master mime and top funny man of modern dance. ¶Sophie Maslow's Festival, an excerpt from an unfinished work called The Village I Knew, based on the folk tales...