Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KIND OF MAGIC by Edna Ferber. 335 pages. Doubleday...
Five feet tall and 76 years old, Edna Ferber is a human word factory. Over the past 52 years she has co-authored seven plays and written 25 books. Slick, romantic and melodramatic, her novels will never win her an interview with the Paris Review. But she is an acerbic, perceptive, witty, opinionated, thoroughly delightful woman, and this second volume of her autobiography provides charming glimpses of a fascinating life...
Strictly speaking, A Kind of Magic begins in 1938 and covers the years of Saratoga Trunk, Giant and Ice Palace. But Author Ferber roams as far back as her days as a $3-a-week cub reporter with the Appleton, Wis., Crescent. Never married, she has had an exuberant, lifelong love affair with "this fantastically rich and spectacular, this gorgeously electric and vital country." Bridgeport and Ashtabula interest her as much as Berlin and Athens, and in a few incisive words she can draw an ineradicable image of a city or a country. "Gray, shrouded, crumbling" Galveston reminds...
...wince, and wait. It's almost always The Robe. The picture was rubbish. It was written as if for Peg's Paper*It was tastelessly sentimental, and badly acted by me." How did he like The Rains of Ran-chipur? "Beyond human belief." Bitter Victory? "Anonymous." Edna Ferber's Ice Palace? "A cold Giant...
...various Calligraphs, Ferber carried the experiment further. In one the action may take place in a kind of cage; in another, the forms bounce back and forth against a wall and a roof and seem never to come to rest. These sculptures do not rise up from the ground; the forms, though loosely defined by a framework, are made to twist and pierce, coil and writhe in almost complete freedom. Ferber has even done a sculpture in which the framework is a whole room-an "environmental work" that envelops the viewer. It is a daring proposal of marriage between sculpture...