Word: edna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Show Boat. Edna Ferber fashioned for herself one of the happiest New Years in New York. In the same week a play of hers (The Royal Family) started what seemed to be her first great success in the theatre, and Florenz Ziegfeld's musical comedy made from her novel established itself magnificently as the best of its kind in town. She did not write the songs and jokes, but the librettist held closely to her basic story. The floating theatre on the Mississippi made a perfect background; Negro singers helped the melodies. These tunes were by Jerome David Kern...
...theatre this season. Burlesque, single great success of the lot, is now challenged by the rough & tumble history of an august theatrical family. It is a story of the Drews and Barrymores say some people (including indignant Barrymores); cries of "no, no", from Authors George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. What of it? The play amuses...
Lovely Lady. For those who like Edna Leedom this is valid fun. Miss Leedom is blonde, slightly tough and in earnest. She has been in many a vast revue and is, no doubt, widely revered. Herein she plays a U. S. miss at large in France. She, pursuing a svelt and penniless French nobleman, is pursued by an atrocious English nobleman. A group of clockwork dancing girls do steadily astonishing things. There is a bed room. Of the French nobleman it is said that had Elinor Glyn seen him before she wrote It the book's title would have...
...Fannie Hurst strode in among last week's horde of notables with plays for sale. Miss Hurst's play was concerned with Jewish matters, as was her great short story Humoresque, later acted by Laurette Taylor. The latest, inferior to Humoresque, is moderately well performed by Edna Hibbard. She marries a crook, reforms him. Her simple Jewish parents are much harassed by wealthy surroundings thrust upon them by an unexpectedly prosperous son who sells antiques...
...Filene (Boston), Adolph Lewisohn (New York); Educators Cyrus Adler, Abraham Flexner, Felix Frankfurter; Education Benefactors George S. Cohen*, Simon Guggenheim, Louis B. Kuppenheimer, Charles A. Wimpfheimer; Internationalists Leo S. Rowe, Simon Straus, Felix M. Warburg, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Adolph S. Ochs, Louis Wiley; Authors Lewis Browne, Octavus Roy Cohen, Edna Ferber, Arthur Guiterman, George S. Hellman, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Maria Moravsky, Emanie N Sachs, Thyra Samter Winslow; Cinema Men William...