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...year 1940 found the man, as well as the man the year. It found him speaking, not only as a Briton, but as an American, taking his words from Oscar Hammerstein and Edna Ferber: "These two great organizations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. No one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along...
ANTHOLOGY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE -Edited by Edna Johnson & Carrie E. Scott-Houqhton Mifflin...
...fifth wife of the late, oft-wedded DeWolf Hopper, Hedda was born Elda Furry near Altoona, Pa., changed her first name as well as her last after marrying Hopper, partly to distinguish herself from her predecessors (Ella, Ida. Edna and Nella), partly to comply with the instructions of a numerologist. Her long connection with the cinema dates back 25 years. Credited with knowing more extramarital yarns about cinemagnates than even the relentless Louella. Hedda was signed up for a Hollywood column three years ago on the recommendation of M. G. M.'s publicity office, soon established herself so firmly...
Amorous waywardness is always trite enough in outline, but life usually fills in the outlines with subtle erotic shadings. So does Molnar. Edna Best is so plumply and seductively feminine as the wife that her unwanted virtue seems a shame. Jay Fassett, the heavy and harassed husband, is a fine figure of a man. But the show is nearly stolen by Harry Gribbon, a former Keystone cop, carrying on as a police officer. In the end Molnar the craftsman almost triumphs over Molnar the trifler's failings...
...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...