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With the exception of James Kirkwood, as the clubman, the cast is selected with a characteristically canny eye. Edna Hibbard, as the honest, bitter cynic of the harlots, received the maximum applause...
MINICK?Theatrical version of Edna Ferber's short story of the impossibilities of a middle-class father...
...strong for her love. Finally there was Louis Bayard, cultured, a little dried up, in whose elegance she finally found comfort. Everywhere she sought-but her tortured, inquiring mind never found the "answers in the back of the book."This novel has been highly received by such critics as Edna Ferber. F. P. A., Heywood Broun, Laurence Stallings...
...competent supporting cast, the saturnine Edna May Oliver squeezes the maximum of merriment out of a shrewd supply of neatly satiric lines...
...Edna Ferber originally wrote this chonicle as a short story-Old Man Minick. George S. Kaufman (coauthor of Dulcy, Merton, Beggar on Horseback, etc.) helped her turn it into a play. Between them they very nearly did a masterpiece. The play is amusing, deeply touching in spots, but overshoots the mark by a too tenacious realism. The characters are types rather than individuals. The detail becomes too authentic...