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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...
Dinner at Eight, by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber...
...chorus comes on stage, sweating under bales of cotton, is the kernel around which Show Boat's music grew. Composer Kern wrote the song for Negro Paul Robeson. Then around it he wove his melodic fabric to fit the libretto which Oscar Hammerstein II craftily extracted from Edna Ferber's novel. Paul Robeson was to have sung in the original U. S. production but it was delayed. Contracts called him to London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang...
...Warner). Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize novel would have been a better picture if its story had been told in a manner more pictorial, less bookish. Yet it is the best cinema in which Barbara Stanwyck has appeared to date. She is Selina Peake, whose father, a Chicago gambler, gets shot in the course of business. He leaves her with an expensive education, no money, a belief that "life is so much velvet...