Word: coauthoring
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Edna Ferber originally wrote this chonicle as a short story-Old Man Minick. George S. Kaufman (coauthor of Dulcy, Merton, Beggar on Horseback, etc.) helped her turn it into a play. Between them they very nearly did a masterpiece. The play is amusing, deeply touching in spots, but overshoots the mark by a too tenacious realism. The characters are types rather than individuals. The detail becomes too authentic...
...fashioned forth by Florence Johns. Those who remember her extraordinarily restrained and tragic performance last year in Children of the Moon will be interested to learn that her new venture invades the opposite realm of the cheap, wisecracking chorus girl, friend of the brother's bride. Avery Hopwood (coauthor) has done, again, for her role what he did so well for similar characters in The Gold Diggers. She bears the burden of the piece and makes it actively amusing...