Word: edna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Minnick?Edna Ferber's noted short story has been dramatized by herself and George S. Kaufman. Appearing as the old man will be O. P. Heggie...
...France (French)?Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Mme. Olga Petrova, actress-playwright; Owen Davis, dramatist; Edna Ferber, novelist; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, foreign affairs writer; Seymour Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; two Newfoundland fishermen picked...
Uproarious comedy about the piano next door, with Lane and Edna Leedom bounding and bawling...
...show Sir James M. Barrie; Jeanne Eagels, famed actress; Mrs. Margaret Talmadge, mother of the three famed Talmadge sisters ; John Emerson, President of the Actors' Equity Association, and his wife, Anita Loos, the director and scenario writer; E. E. Fernandi, "Rockefeller of Peru"; Benjamin Winchell, Remington Typewriter President ; Edna Ferber, novelist...