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...Eugen Jan Boissevain (Edna St. Vincent Millay), poetess (Renascence and Other Poems, The King's Henchman, The Buck in the Snow), left "Steepletop," her home at Austerlitz, N. Y., to have some fun in Manhattan. She described her fun to the press: "Staying out until seven o'clock in the morning. It's just a round of 'pub-crawling.' Don't you like that word? I wish I had invented...
...Royal Family Of Broadway", the screen version of the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman, is not so much a motion picture as it is a photograph of a play. Being written for the legitimate stage, the Hollywood director has done nothing to adapt the original script to the peculiarities of the camera. The result is satisfactory in as much as it fulfills the purpose of the authors as they wrote for the stage, but all of the possibilities of a picture were not realized...
Died. Mrs. Cora Buzzelle Millay. 67, mother of Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay (Renascence, The Buck in the Snow, The King's Henchman), Novelist Kathleen Millay (Wayfarer), Singer Norma Millay (in Manhattan's Intimate Opera); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Camden, Maine...
Cimarron (RKO). Edna Ferber's story of the birth and growth of the State of Oklahoma as reflected in the life of a newspaperman and his family was brilliantly cinematic in print and is vivid and memorable journalism as a cinema. It is a long, full-bodied picture, paced so deftly that although it covers more than half a century of crowded, changing events, it never drags and is rarely jerky. Westward goes Richard Dix with his wife (Irene Dunne) to start a newspaper in the town of Osage, Okla., which has sprung into a population...
...Royal Family of Broadway (Paramount). When Edna Ferber and George Kaufman wrote this brilliant play about the manners of a great stage family, the producers were careful to dissemble and critics referred only with circumlocutory guile to the obvious fact that the Barrymores were depicted. But since the play, after brilliant and prolonged success in New York and on the road, provoked no violent animosity from the group satirized, Paramount has found courage to label the characters. Fredric March imitates John Barrymore and tries to look as much like him as possible without conspicuous makeup. Ina Claire reflects many...