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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MINICK?Theatrical version of Edna Ferber's short story of the impossibilities of a middle-class father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Dec. 8, 1924 | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Problems | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 6, 1924 | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...Minnick?Edna Ferber's noted short story has been dramatized by herself and George S. Kaufman. Appearing as the old man will be O. P. Heggie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The New Plays | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...France (French)?Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Mme. Olga Petrova, actress-playwright; Owen Davis, dramatist; Edna Ferber, novelist; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, foreign affairs writer; Seymour Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; two Newfoundland fishermen picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming & Going: Aug. 4, 1924 | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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