Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ethel Barrymore never forgave George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber for the play that they based on her family, the great theater dynasty, the Barrymores. She refused to speak to the authors for five years, and tried (but failed) to sue for libel. Then 15 years after The Royal Family had closed, Kaufman telephoned to ask her to appear at a benefit to be given at Radio City Music Hall during the World War II Bundles for Britain campaign. When Kaufman told her the intended date, she responded icily with one of Kaufman's own best lines, originally spoken...
...work. It is a warm, witty play about a great acting family on one level, about the theatrical profession on another, and, on a third level, about the intense joy and satisfaction derived only from working at what one does best. What seems to have attracted Kaufman and Ferber in the characters they created in the Cavendish family is the enthusiastic emotional and spiritual commitment that they feel towards their work, and how this affects their attitude towards everything else they...
Katherine Ferber...
...GEORGE S. KAUFMAN and EDNA FERBER...
President Bok took issue with Ferber's claims by saying that Harvard has spent all of the endowment income on University operating costs...