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Author Edna Ferber writes novels that thousands read. That she chose such a subject as Cimarron's is an indication of the growing interest of U. S. readers in the history of their country. For Cimarron, now the name of an Oklahoma county, once meant the lawless no-man's-land between Texas and Oklahoma which in the '80s was a. wilderness of free cattle range. In Cimarron Author Ferber tells how the Territory was settled; how it became gradually civilized, then suddenly rich from its oil. Now full-blood Osage Indians, bemillioned overnight, ride blanketed in limousines and leave...
Sample tax refunds: Mary Pickford Fairbanks ($10,163), John Davison Rockefeller ($157,227). Mortimer Schiff ($429,804), estate of William Jennings Bryan ($8,253), California Wine Association ($23,116), Thomas Alva Edison ($923), Edna Ferber...
Colonial at 8:10. "Show Boat". Last week and a half of Ziegfeld's glorification of Edna Ferber...
Show Boat (Universal). The problem of knitting episodes of a novel in a way that will reduce or eliminate, for picture purposes, the chapters introduced to show the passage of time, is emphasized in Edna Ferber's romance of Mississippi minstrels because her story touches three generations of show people and includes the life of one of them from childhood to maturity. This was not the only problem that confronted Producer Carl Laemmle when, having bought the cinema rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made...
...ROYAL FAMILY−George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber smiling at the domestic antics of one of our theatrical first families (TIME...