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...variety and game shows and, of course, advertising. At times, the old Saturday Night wit is in top form. In a takeoff on Let's Make a Deal, one hyperexcited contestant trades a husband, children and an Arizona home for what's behind the door. "Oh oh, Edna, you've been stung!" says Host Chevy cheerily. "It's a spinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Chevy Slips into Prime Time | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Caleb (1975), a Baltimore family's hunt for a long-missing relative. Most of her books will be available in paperback editions this year. For the impatient, her short stories irregularly appear in magazines (The New Yorker, Redbook, McCall's). Like such writers as John Cheever and Edna O'Brien, Tyler is fortunately unable to sit still between novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wilderness Course | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Ethel Barrymore never forgave George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber for the play that they based on her family, the great theater dynasty, the Barrymores. She refused to speak to the authors for five years, and tried (but failed) to sue for libel. Then 15 years after The Royal Family had closed, Kaufman telephoned to ask her to appear at a benefit to be given at Radio City Music Hall during the World War II Bundles for Britain campaign. When Kaufman told her the intended date, she responded icily with one of Kaufman's own best lines, originally spoken...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: All in the Family | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...Royal Family, the brilliant Broadway production of George S. Kaufmann--Edna Ferber play about a flamboyant theater family strangely reminiscent of the Barrymore clan, is playing at the Wilbur Theater, 252 Tremont St., Boston. Performances are Monday through Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stage listings for the week | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...most beguiling-and authoritative-books on the subject is The Taste of Country Cooking (Knopf), by Edna Lewis, a black gourmande of some 50 years, whose recipes are marinated in memory and deep-fried in philosophy. If there is a single definitive guide to Southern cookery, it is American Cooking: Southern Style (TIME-LIFE Books), by Eugene Walter. It is often quoted by gourmets steeped in Southern lore and victuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH - MODERN LIVING: A Home-Grown Elegance | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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