The below arrived in yesterday’s mail, contributed to the archive courtesy of a friend of the Spill (thank you, friend of the Spill!)
I’ve written about a number of WWII era overseas New Yorker and Thurber books, but have never seen this Male Animal program before. It’s printed on thin paper and measures 4″ x 4 1/2″. Amazing it has lasted, in such great condition, all these years.
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The Madeleine Theatre is quite the place!
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More Male Animal
Here’s the Overseas edition containing The Male Animal (I found this image online — the book is not in the Spill collection). Want to know more about the Overseas editions, here’s a book all about them.
Here’s the hardcover Random House edition, published in 1940, and a 1968 Samuel French playbook.
The (1942) movie poster:
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James Thurber’s A-Z Entry
James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”
Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. Website. If you’re in Columbus, Ohio, be sure to visit Thurber House!