Word: edna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Lincoln C. Andrews, returning from his "125% successful" conference with Britishers on smuggling prevention, sat in the dining salon of the liner La France, ate crêpes suzettes (French pancakes) with rum sauce. Novelist Edna Ferber (see p. 31) and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone spoofed him. He replied that "everything eaten with a fork or a spoon was quite all right...
...What was the game of Edna Ferber's 'Gaylord Ravenal...
...Splendid characters and material are worn down by overuse of the catalog sentence, repetition of scenes. Nevertheless, the material and characters are splendid; the theme broad, native. Gathered speed at the narratives end puts Show Boat over the sandbars-a deep-draft, beamy vessel; a gorgeous excursion. The Author. Edna Ferber, pride of Kalamazoo, Mich., where she was born 39 years ago, and at Appleton, Wis., whose public schools she attended, lives beside Central Park nowadays, a national celebrity since 1912 or so, when her stories began appearing regularly in the magazines. Roast Beef Medium, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls...
Operas performed or scheduled this summer at Ravinia: Madame Butterfly, Romeo and Juliette, Rigoletto, Faust, Martha, Aida, and The King's Henchman, a new opera (TIME, June 7) by Deems Taylor (score) and Edna St. Vincent Millay (libretto...
Married. Ilka Chase, 20, actress, daughter of Editor Edna Woolman Chase of Vogue, to Louis Calhern, 28, stock company actor; at Irondequoit...