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...spurned the stage for the screen, now comes back from the screen to the stage to tell about a girl who refused to spurn the stage for the screen. If this minor irony doesn't obtrude itself upon your attention, you will find George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's "Stage Door" a rather absorbing bit of sentimental comedy. With Mr. Kaufman monopolizing the Boylston-Tremont region, go see "You Can't Take It With You" first, then "Stage Door", and finally "I'd Rather Be Right"; or, proceed in the reverse order if you don't intend...
...some money, and Douglas Gilmore is a dignified victim of Hollywood's rapacity. The cast, however, is a huge one, and no small part of the interest comes from studying the various members of the Footlight Club. Having only two hours in which to work, Mr. Kaufman and Miss Ferber have made an amazing number of young women stand out as real persons. The secret is probably that heavy lines and strong colors are used: there is the witty cynic, the blase adventures, the man-hater, the sweet young thing from the South, the inescapable talker, the pair of mediocre...
...much for his contributors as for his own writings. Some favorite F. P. A. "contribs," under their own names and various pseudonyms, have been Poets Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Arthur Guiterman, Writers Sinclair Lewis Morrie (Of Thee I Sing) Ryskind, Ring Lardner, John Erskine, Edna Ferber, Composer Deems Taylor, Funnyman Groucho Marx...
...Sing (1931), Dinner at Eight (1932), Let 'em Eat Cake (1933), Merrily We Roll Along (1934), First Lady (1935). This season George Kaufman was once more Broadway's Man-of-the-Year when he turned out two more smashing box-office successes: Stage Door (with Edna Ferber) and You Can't Take It With You (with Moss Hart). The latter is Kaufman's 27th Broadway show. It is also his biggest sellout, since seats are on sale almost five months in advance, a Broadway record. Last week, however, in Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora...
...corner of this country, at least, the pesky problem of the agricultural surplus has been solved. Right in line with all American principles of rugged individualism the solution came, not from black-capped college professors or brain trustees, but from the colored cook of that homespun novelist, Edna Ferber. A friend of ours who recently had the pleasure of visiting her in New York spent most of her time being shown the glories of the lady writer's new Park Avenue penthouse, famous in the eyes of its present possessor as the former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king...