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...packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...
King & Matriarch. Author Ferber manipulates her old patterns with practiced ease. Vaughan Melendy, rich and rugged lumber-salmon king, is the spectacular Northwest, and vice versa. "Born into this gargantuan northwest region of giant forests, limitless waters, vast mountains, fertile valleys, he himself blended into the lavish picture and was one with it. . . . He digested it like the benevolent giant...
...Author. At 57, Edna Ferber is white-haired, handsome and still single. She attributes her fabulous success to the fact that "I write about fundamental things-love, marriage, hardship, vitality, country -the things writers used to spit at." Besides this, she explains, "I try to write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book...
During the war, Miss Ferber has been devoting much of her time to war work, the nature of which she refuses to disclose. She has closed her big Connecticut house and is living in a big Park Avenue duplex apartment. Sick to death at the moment, of novel-writing, she is feverishly working on a play. "Novels are a waste of time," she declares, "when there are plays to be written, real plays." She still cherishes an ambition to become an actress...
...present younger generation (17 to 35), Author Ferber has high hopes -higher, she says, than she has had for anything in a long time. "They are so calm, so poised, so dignified," she says. "They're a little afraid, maybe-who isn't? -but not hysterical...