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Word: edna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 6, 1924 | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The New Plays | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming & Going: Aug. 4, 1924 | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

Uproarious comedy about the piano next door, with Lane and Edna Leedom bounding and bawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jul. 7, 1924 | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming & Going: Jun. 16, 1924 | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

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