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DECEMBER 17. Dr. Seuss 4 Grinch Scampers Into Living Rooms in Yule Special By I80B1X ASHE cm I Goisol. And then World a Grinch? A Bingcl 11 which proved to be a Ball? A Pan Tooka? A sniffer in lhr Ted Snoof? A Floobcr, a Tram ooker, or ev en a S3 to Slonker? It is not a loroign language. It only reads that way.

The wortls make total and complete sense to the youngest generation, and to have their youngest generations learn to read. The mink, all of them were coined by l)r. Seinm. The children know IIK la real, and that's sufficient reason to believe in kut-h delightfully squiggly of his creation as a A really special, special occasion is in store for this youngest generation, the older set age 10 or 12 who feel like recapturing their youth, and parents of the whole bunch on Sunday night, December IK. Fiom Eastern time on a will come to television: the first Dr.

Seuss story ever adapted for TV. It is called How the Grinch Stole and it is a half-hour filled with the key characters only Dr. Seuss can create and name. For instance, just what IS a Grinch? Well, green, for one thing And he's rather evil-looking. with beady red eyes.

He didn't start out in life intending to bo mean after all. who does? but he DID start out with a large handicap. His heart is two sizes too small for the rest of him. And at Christmastime this is a large problem. Well, this evil Grinch decided to steal Christmas.

He did so because he didn't like all the noise that comes every year on Christ- mns morn. The Grinch lives just north of Whoville on top of Mt. Crumpet, and he just wanted to stop Christmas from causing the noise. Now- the Grinch isn't all bad. He has a dog.

Named Max. Like all faithful dogs. Max will do just about anything his master decides even to being drmed like a reindeer in the effort to steal Christmas from the Whos. fir inch drmrs up like Santa Claus and. well we're not going to tell you whether Christmas gets stolen or If Max is a Convincing reindeer, or If the Whos rise above this terrible happening.

We're Just not, that's all. But what sort of fanciful gentleman can create Clinches and Tertlcs called Yertle, or Hortxu who live in trees? A fanciful gentleman whose real name is Theodor Seuss Geisel, a native of Springfield, Mass. lie is a graduate of Dartmouth College. and of Lincoln College in Oxford. England, He did magazine illustrations and wrote stories for national magazines, and Imd a highly successful career as an advertising genius.

It you recall a camjuugn whose catchline was Henry, the Geisel. Geteel's war experiences encompassed and producing motion pictures for the Army. Twi of them won Academy A fringe benefit of this assignment was the fact that Ted Geisel worked with a gentleman named Chuck Jones. And it is primai-idy due to Jones that How the Grinch Stole CTvristmas" is coming to television. Recalls Jones: was with Warner Brothers, pioducing filnvs for the Army, tax Ted was a Captain at the time, making these training films.

We developed the little character and made about 20 of those training films. Ted became a major, went overseas, was in the Battle of the Bulge and then at Hiroshima His story, 'Horton Hears a was inspired by what he saw at Hiroshima. directed the 'Snafu' films and we saw each other socially now and Says Jones, "I Ted was writing books and he making much money from them. He told me one evening that if he could only earn $5,000 or $6,000 a year from his books' royalties then never have to worry about finances." Jones laughs a lot in retrospect when he recalls that quote. 5k) does Geisel.

all the way to his banks. But Jones didn't know that earlier this year. Jones continued Hi the movie business and. deapite the fact that his old buddy was living only 100 miles south of Hollywood, in La Jolla, he aware that old buddy was a multimillionaire many times over from these children's hooks. "I wanted the luxury of a show that I WANTED to Jones went on.

I thought of Ted. I figured maybe he could use some extra money, by letting me produce one of his booKs for Alter the phone call during which Jones learned that his pal didn't exactly need extra loot, negotiations still continued. It seems Geisel had been offered countless deals to let his characters move into television, and had turned them down regularly wanted creative control over what happened to rav says Geisel. most of the offers just were that: offers of a lot of money and kindly stay home and let US tend to the TV business. With Chuck, I knew I could work actively with him on the Grinch, says Geisel.

He could, he did. and he has. Since last spring when work ewnmenced on the special, Geisel has commuted regularly from his mountaintop home in La Jolla, supervising production, the MGM recor a'bum of three original tunes from the show, and Grinch ill come to television as his own, Grinchy self. Dme in full-eolor animation, the half-hour show is certain to be a (Christmas classic, with Boris Karloff narrating it. It is entirely possible that there'll be other of the Dr.

Seuss books for MGM animation. So If you hear the youngsters walking around the house talking about a deegal trout, or a fish made of st rawer ry jelly, how maay tall feathers a girl bird named Oertude Mr Fuss has, or If you will buy them a aheeglo- mohile (which Is sn ainmal- finding machine), know they've been re-reading Dr. Seuss with regularity. From wnence come these fanciful names that only Dr. Seuss characters possess? If Dr.

5veus krvTws, he telling. He merely smiles in the fey ay of some of his characters. He floes say about the original Grinch book, that he wrote it that was dreamed up by generally making due to an "economic and publishing I had three months to do a Christmas book. Generally, I worry my way for months through a book, making Rtire the people look as I want them too. and say the proper things that Seuss characters do.

"This I wrote in one month, ami illustrated in two months, which was almost a record for me. In spite of the nish and pressure. this turned out to be one of my best And there you have some of the reasons why "Dr. How the Grinch Stole is a very special special television special. True, the Grinch doesn't look like thwerll whose legs are snarled up in a terrible which describes a bug from another Dr.

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