Thurber Tonight: An encore presentation of "Joyeux Noël, Mr. Durning"

AGAIN WE BRACKET "A RIDE WITH OLYMPY" WITH THE
SEMENTZOFF FAMILY SEQUEL, "JOYEUX NOËL, MR. DURNING"

[Note: It's largely on the strength of the "Ride with Olympy" connection that I chose "Joyeux Noël, Mr. Durning" over the other great Thurber "correspondence saga," "File and Forget." But since we're not going to be reprising the latter, at least not this week, I want to make sure everyone remembers about it. -- Ken]



Last night we made the acquaintance of Maria and Olympy Sementzoff via Thurber's 1938 account of the famous "Ride With Olympy" on Cap d'Antibes. Now we jump over World War II and several years beyond to this sort-of-sequel, which appeared originally in The New Yorker of July 2, 1949. -- Ken


IT STARTED AS AN INNOCENT CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM ABROAD.
IT TURNED INTO "JOYEUX NOËL, MR. DURNING" -- CLICK HERE


THURBER TONIGHT (including WOODY ALLEN, ROBERT BENCHLEY, BOB AND RAY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, S. J. PERELMAN, JEAN SHEPHERD, and E. B. WHITE TONIGHT): Check out the series to date

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