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...preliminary number on the Brattle card this week is a UPA cartoon version of James Thurber's fable for our time, The Unicorn in the Garden. An expansion of the theme ("Don't count your boobies before they are hatched") serves as the main event, with Humphrey Bogart compensating for the absence of technicolor...
Arriving in London as the sole American to join the West End version of last season's Broadway revue, A Thurber Carnival, Humorist James Thurber, 66, stated his canny reason for coming to Britain. "No one seems to die over here," said Thurber. "Every time they try to hold a memorial service, the corpse writes in to say he's feeling fine. In America, love after 40 is obscene, work after 50 is unlikely, and death before 60 is practically certain...
...have flaws," gloats the nasty duke in The Thirteen Clocks, "and mine is being wicked." Thurber might have written the line to be spoken by David Merrick, the most consistently successful producer on Broadway. For something over a decade, Merrick. now 49, has thrown himself with glee into the passionate pursuit of two goals-turning out shows and making enemies. There is no reliable head-count of the showman's enemies, but Merrick has had 20 shows on Broadway since 1954, and 15 of them qualify as hits. No other producer, including Mike Todd, Flo Ziegfeld or the Shuberts...
Still going strong are last year's hits notably The Miracle Worker, Toys in the Attic, Bye Bye Birdie and A Thurber Carnival, whose cast now include the author...
...State Department Code Clerk James Thurber, then 25, defected into journalism, has harbored ever since an unrealized ambition: "One friend of mine put it very well when he said, 'That s.o.b. has been trying to get on the stage for 40 years.' " Last week when a star of his long-running Broadway revue, A Thurber Carnival, abruptly quit, the author-cartoonist trouped into the breach. With only two rehearsals, under Director Burgess Meredith ("Now I have him at my mercy; I can tell him that as an actor he has no right to change the author...