AFTER a period of years on the French the N. Y. Herald Tribune, James turned to find friend Elliot a perennial youth in way plays which, like Kempy and Poor Nugents, father and son, had written for to play in. Both Nugent and Thurber are to be characters in the Poor Nut, a college play.

But it was Elliot who went to the land of squirrel-dodgers. He turned Hollywood actor, Ohio State haunted hi. He played leads in movies as College Life and College Window. To break the jinx, he turned director, so he made She Loves Me Not (in which Bing Crosby was a Princeton student) and College Scandals. By this time people every where were studying Thurber's nonsensical "telephonebooth" drawings in the New Yorker and laughing at whatever they thought the drawings meant. James Thurber has written an autobiography, My Lige and Hands and collaborated on Is Sex Necessary? Elliot, no such questions in Hollywood, has just directing Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland Never Know

ELLIOT NUGENT was a fairly serious Ohio State University during the days Great War, but he was also a quarter miler, cut in on studying. James Grover Thurber, was a complete grind opposed to judging by the hours he spent in the library State and by the long hair he always wore before his eyes. Nugent and Thurber met to their mutual benefit. James went out more frequently; Elliot came indoors to begin in the Ohio State .

Although he was in Dover, O. the son of who traveled and vaudeville. His J. C. Nugent, is it when he is not on Broadway motion pictures. been a child actor honorable Keith- circuit, so he today to starring in productions.