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Colonial at 8:10. "Show Boat". Last week and a half of Ziegfeld's glorification of Edna Ferber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

Show Boat (Universal). The problem of knitting episodes of a novel in a way that will reduce or eliminate, for picture purposes, the chapters introduced to show the passage of time, is emphasized in Edna Ferber's romance of Mississippi minstrels because her story touches three generations of show people and includes the life of one of them from childhood to maturity. This was not the only problem that confronted Producer Carl Laemmle when, having bought the cinema rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Well, he said, he had been working away for two years. Instead of collaborating again with Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay he had gone ahead by himself on a libretto, a fantastic tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lost in Thought | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...which he thinks he has this delicate subject thoroughly solved and classified in the mind. Suddenly some new experience, some new sensation will present itself and your picture vanishes away in thin air. Such, indeed, is the situation we found ourselves in after trying to absorb the intent of Edna Bryner's recent novel, "While The Bride-Groom Tarried...

Author: By S. P. D., | Title: Four of the Season's Novels | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Edna C. Hagen; by Golfer Walter Hagen; in Los Angeles, on the ground of desertion. Said he: "I had been kind and indulgent . . . always provided an excellent home . . . used every care for her happiness and welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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