Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stage Door (by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber; Sam H. Harris, producer). Having thoroughly extolled the pride and excitement of theatrical life when he and Edna Ferber wrote The Royal Family (1927), having thoroughly deflated the parvenu pretense of Hollywood when he and Moss Hart wrote Once in a Lifetime (1930), George Kaufman, collaborating with Miss Ferber again, is compelled to cover some fairly old ground in a fairly old way when he again fights the battle of the drama v. the cinema in Stage Door...
...carrying disorder inside, we will meet the outside confusion with poise." He says that as a psychologist Emerson was more radical than Freud, asks readers to "consider how different Emily Dickinson would have been had she gone to Vassar and been a roommate of Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...first Phyllis, Ralph's wife, had the hardest time. Edna, Tom's wife, hated her and always made her feel that she was in the way in the kitchen. Her two big overgrown sons picked on Phyllis' little girl. Her husband felt bitter at Ralph for losing his place, and in an argument about whose place was lost first, the brothers got into a fight. Old Grandpa Young kept saying ineffectually that he was not going to have this contention in his house, never did have it and never would, at last wrote to Harvey for help...
...Author Thomas, despite her zest for writing about the homely details of farm life, comes perilously close to setting her characters in situations where a showdown would be inevitable-e.g., when Tom's wife recognizes the reasons for Tom's increasing amiability. But by the time Edna has fractured her back and Phyllis and Ralph have a house of their own, all tension is removed and the story comes to a classic sentimental conclusion...
...polls to record their preference for Presidential Candidates Borah and Landon. Governor Hoffman was candidate for no more exalted office than one of New Jersey's four delegates-at-large to the Republican Convention. In addition to him, the official slate of Landon delegates-at-large included Mrs. Edna B. Conklin; President Edward D. Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime Congressman Franklin W. Fort, who emerged from...