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AMERICAN BEAUTY - Edna Ferber - Doubleday, Doran...
...behooves them to justify their popularity by infusing their entertainment with a Message. American Beauty's Message: from the mixture in the U. S. melting pot of inbred aristocracy and peasant stock will come a new & nobler breed. But you do not have to pay attention to Edna Ferber's Message to enjoy her story...
...Author. Edna Ferber, short (5 ft. 3 in.), Jewish, unmarried, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., lives in Manhattan but likes Chicago best. She started newspaper work at 17, sold her first story when she was 23 (she is now 44). A plugger herself, she likes to write about workers. Her two ambitions: "To sit in a rocking-chair at the corner of State & Madison streets [Chicago] and watch the folks go by"; "to live on a houseboat in the Vale of Cashmere." Author of many a short story, co-author (with George S. Kaufman) of two Broadway-produced plays...
Like all professions, literature is roomy at the top. To that top few women have aspired; fewer still in their own lifetime have arrived. This generation has had its fair share of authoresses who were first-class writers: the late Elinor Wylie and Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Willa Gather, Colette, Virginia Woolf. Of this little list Virginia Woolf stands preeminent. Never a popular writer, always dangerously clever, she writes not as one enameling teacups but as one embroidering a theme; her theme is life...
...recognizes, for no very good reason, the old cloak & suit buyer as her father. Well-mounted, directed and acted, Bought is acceptable though severely commonplace entertainment. Silly shot: a cross-section of the model's bookshelf, intended to indicate that she loves good books, showing adjacent volumes by Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Galsworthy, Michael Arlen...