Word: ferberate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the town without success (it was produced eventually as Be Yourself and ran for several months) ; then Dulcy; To the Ladies; Merton of the Movies; Helen of Troy, New York; The Beggar on Horseback; and Minick. With the exception of the last, which he wrote with Edna Ferber, he has collaborated on these plays with Mr. Connelly. This year they split, Mr. Kaufman's first musical by himself will be The Cocoanuts, for the Marx Brothers, and his first play is The Butter...
...best U.S. novel ($4,000)? to Edna Ferber...
...Edna Ferber's So Big continues to be one of the best-selling books in several years, and long after its original publication. Meanwhile, Miss Ferber, in a study, newly acquired, is at work on a new novel of Chicago life. She works as hard every day as the man who stands outside my window now and makes life miserable for me and doubtless for himself with a steam rivetter. She works harder. The period when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters...
...believe that it is important that the public recover from the impression that writing is the mere sitting down with white paper before one and turning out a story that sells and sells and sells. After all, the element of luck has not played a large part in Miss Ferber's career. It was not luck that sold her very first story. It was simply that she was a good reporter, who had turned her reportorial experience into fiction by the process of studying the short stories of others. The Homely Heroine, in the collection Buttered Side Down...
...Ross, Ralph Barton, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Rea Irvin, George S. Kaufman, Alice Duer Miller, Dorothy Farker, Laurence Stallings, Alexander Woollcott were the names appearing in the prospectus when the first number of the magazine appeared, it was noted that Heywood Broun, Edna Ferber and Laurence Stallings had disappeared from the list...