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Tag: Scott Burns

Thurber Thursday: “Harmonica Man” Larry Adler With Some Punch

August 24, 2023 michael News

The other day, Scott Burns, a friend of the Spill sent along scans of a rather obscure item: Thurber’s contribution to this booklet of text with accompanying records is “Harmonica Man,” a piece about Larry Adler (Peter Harrington, A London bookseller selling a copy (for $517.98), has this terrific write-up on the set).  I came up empty-handed when looking through

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Thurber Thursday: A Wartime “Male Animal” On Attempted Bloggery

September 8, 2022 michael News

      Today I point you to Stephen Nadler’s fab site, Attempted Bloggery to see a rare program (provided by Scott Burns) for a production of The Male Animal staged in wartime Paris at The Madeleine Theater. Ohio State roomies (and life-long friends) James Thurber & Elliott Nugent collaborated, post-college, on the comedy, which became a successful  Broadway play

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