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SARATOGA TRUNK - Edna Ferber-. Doubleday, Doran...
These new novels by Edna Ferber (who writes-just-like-a-man) and Louis Bromfield (who writes almost like one) have three things in common: both use New Orleans, both will sell well, and both are so predigested for celluloid that they hardly sit still on the page. But one of them is pretty good, and the other pretty...
...Edna Ferber is more adroit. Her Creole heroine, Clio Dulaine, is not only beautiful, but hard, in the manner of Scarlett O'Hara and other cut-rate Becky Sharps. Clio takes up with Gambler Clint Maroon: "He was magnificent, he was vast, he was beautiful, he was crude, he was rough, he was untamed, he was Texas." He was also a gambler, but Clio soon seduced him into larger ambitions...
...Land Is Bright (by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber; produced by Max Gordon) is a show about the forces that helped send the world to hell, but to most people it will give merely an evening of sheer escape. It can't avoid becoming a movie, but it might have been a play. It is the story of a ruthless robber baron who amassed $200,000,000 in the '90s, and of his corrupt, irresponsible descendants-flinthearts and playboys, women prowling Europe for titles, girls scouring Manhattan for thrills. It might have lacerated the flesh...
...Other front-rank U. S. women magazine editors: Beatrice Gould (Ladies' Home Journal, world's biggest women's magazine); Edna Chase (Vogue); Carmel Snow (Harper's Bazaar); Mrs. William Brown Meloney (This Week);Betsy Talbot Blackwell (Mademoiselle...