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...fizzing when Harriet Monroe of Chicago started Poetry magazine in 1912. By opening her pages to some of the best young fizzers, she got some "firsts" to be proud of: T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, Carl Sandburg's Chicago, early verse by Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay...
Jane has little plot; it is a pattern of sharp repartee and character dilineation. Its performers--Edna Best, John Loder, and Howard St. John--strut across the stage, catching epithets and deftly whipping them back. And for at least one whole act--until the wind gives out--Jane sails along lightly and smoothly...
GIANT (447 pp.)-Edna Ferber-Doubleday...
...more than a quarter of a century Novelist Edna Ferber has specialized in just one kind of book-the bestseller. Whether she writes about the Midwest (So Big), the Northeast (American Beatify), or the Northwest (Come and Get It), the result is the same: a blend of regionalism and superslick storytelling that guarantees the bookseller some of his happiest moments. In all fairness, she gives her faithful reader full money's worth as well. Consistent old pro that she is, Author Ferber has undoubtedly done it again at 65 with Giant, her eleventh novel and her first in seven...
...come from." Decked out in a long black dress and a red wig, "with a face like a hatchet, a voice like a duck and a figure to match," Bolger makes a highly amusing if improbable lady-something like a cross between Whistler's Mother and the late Edna Mae Oliver...