Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dinner at Eight, by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber...
...chorus comes on stage, sweating under bales of cotton, is the kernel around which Show Boat's music grew. Composer Kern wrote the song for Negro Paul Robeson. Then around it he wove his melodic fabric to fit the libretto which Oscar Hammerstein II craftily extracted from Edna Ferber's novel. Paul Robeson was to have sung in the original U. S. production but it was delayed. Contracts called him to London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang...
...Warner). Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize novel would have been a better picture if its story had been told in a manner more pictorial, less bookish. Yet it is the best cinema in which Barbara Stanwyck has appeared to date. She is Selina Peake, whose father, a Chicago gambler, gets shot in the course of business. He leaves her with an expensive education, no money, a belief that "life is so much velvet...
...likely to function as a snare. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Specialist will be disappointed to find that The Expert is harmless in a different way. It is about a dithering patriarch, his son and daughter-in-law, and a neighboring waif (Dickie Moore)-a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story Old Man Minick. The chronicle of a quavering gaffer who never really enjoyed himself until he got to the Old Men's Home where he could play checkers with his cronies, had possibilities for the cinema which have been firmly overlooked. Minick (Sale) is a pigeonhole grandpa...
...Author. Edna Ferber, short (5 ft. 3 in.), Jewish, unmarried, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., lives in Manhattan but likes Chicago best. She started newspaper work at 17, sold her first story when she was 23 (she is now 44). A plugger herself, she likes to write about workers. Her two ambitions: "To sit in a rocking-chair at the corner of State & Madison streets [Chicago] and watch the folks go by"; "to live on a houseboat in the Vale of Cashmere." Author of many a short story, co-author (with George S. Kaufman) of two Broadway-produced plays...