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...Edna-Ferberish servant-girl is torn between her love for her fiancé and the flattering dependence of her Jewish "family...
...Edna L. Bernstein would like to get $350 for a portrait of a petunia. George Constant, who painted zinnias and blue crabs, would take any reasonable offer...
Based on a story by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham Lewis, The Man Who Knew Too Much starts calmly enough in St. Moritz where Lawrence (Leslie Banks), his wife (Edna Best) and their small daughter (Nova Pilbeam) are performing winter sports. A fellow guest at their hotel is mysteriously shot. Dying, he begs Lawrence to find a code message in his room, deliver it to the British Foreign Office. Lawrence finds the message but before he can deliver it, the assassins have kidnapped his daughter, threatened to kill her if Lawrence carries out his mission...
...Author Edna Ferber never attends a first night of one of her plays, flees from Manhattan when her new books appear. Last month she escaped the publication of her newest novel, Come and Get It (TIME, March 4), by sailing on a Mediterranean cruise. Returning on the Conte di Savoia last week, she reported her flight: "Palestine is a country in the making, like America busy and alive. I found the King David Hotel simply flawless, thoroughly modern. Yet all around is the suggestion of the Biblical. For instance, I would go down to the bar for a cocktail...
...common property. So is the finished product. The process of making one into the other is the trade secret of artists, but on each book, picture, statue is the trade-mark of the maker's tools. The smoothly machined product of such novel-factories as Edna Ferber needs no watermark: consumers know it is standard brand, Grade B entertainment, an honest product sold for an honest price...