Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THEY BROUGHT THEIR WOMEN-Edna Ferber-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Expert machinist of popular-priced fiction, Edna Ferber has long turned out best-selling goods in three different models: novels, short stories and, with collaborators, plays. Like all carefully machined products for mass consumption, Edna Ferber's stories are as competently finished, as conservatively up-to-date, as shiny with neat paintwork and chromium fittings, as unindividual as next year's family model, f. o. b. Detroit...
...James John Walker at Cape Ferrat, French Riviera, but not too ill to chirp: "Do I eat like I was sick or dead?" Edna Ferber, infected in London, convalesced at nearby Nice. In Paris the American Hospital opened two special wards to care for numerous LL S. victims. Forehanded Paris undertakers formally declared that they were short of coffins...
...most interesting plays that have graced the News York stage in this year when there has been a flood of meritorious productions, "Dinner at Eight," which opened at the Music Box last month, has not been esteemed too highly. The work of another of those fruitful Kaufman-Ferber collaborations, the play has set before the audience the intensely interesting elements that make up a dinner party at the home of Mrs. Oliver Jordan. "Just a small party. Lord and Lady Ferncliffe will be here, two dear friends of ours. Yes. Dinner at Eight." Built on a frame similar to Grand...
Dinner at Eight (by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman; Sam Harris, producer). In collaboration for the first time since they wrote The Royal Family, Playwrights Kaufman & Ferber have turned out a piece in which they should take pleasure and profit, too. Dinner at Eight is seriocomic, and it may be inferred that Miss Ferber supplied the serio-element, Mr. Kaufman the comic. The deft Kaufman hand, however, is thoroughly evident in this excellent play's shrewd direction...
Almost everyone has been either the original play which started its run in 1928, or the movie, or read Eden Ferber's book, but seldom has a revival proved as popular as this. Elaborate almost to the point of excess the scenes, the consumes and the choruses are all blended to give the impression of a great spectacle. To call "Show Boat" a musical comedy would be far from conveying a definition, as to call "Green Pasture" a play. It is not puny, like many plays of its type. It combines all the sentiment and carefully unwinding plots...