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Dinner at Eight, by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber...
...white-haired dame with the patrician profile and shallow-crowned velvet hat "with feather fantasy caught under the nice brim ... for the 40's or 50's or 60's" was unmistakably Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, gracious, able editrix-in-chief of the three Vogues published in Manhattan, London, Paris. The drowsy blonde in the broadcloth beret (for ladies "this side of thirty") at the opposite side of the group was surely Nancy Hale Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch...
...them later on. The people in Show Boat have characteristic motifs just as Wotan and Siegfried have theirs in the Ring operas. Cap'n Andy Hawks has a light, rollicking phrase all his own. Parthy, his New England wife, has a phrase as shrewish and tart as Actress Edna May Oliver's face. Julie, the quadroon, has her tragedy suggested by the mournful notes which introduce "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Show Boat's choruses are more than an excuse to display pretty faces and legs...
...Negro chorus comes on stage, sweating under bales of cotton, is the kernel around which Show Boat's music grew. Composer Kern wrote the song for Negro Paul Robeson. Then around it he wove his melodic fabric to fit the libretto which Oscar Hammerstein II craftily extracted from Edna Ferber's novel. Paul Robeson was to have sung in the original U. S. production but it was delayed. Contracts called him to London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang...
...student. Poetry, The Magazine of Verse, gave him its Young Poet's Prize, invited him to become associate editor. Boy in the Wind was the first selection of the Poetry Book Club, won the Chicago Foundation for Literature Prize. Among more personal prizes he counts the friendship of Edna St. Vincent Millay...