Word: ferberate
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...night-club complexion, his affinities and affectations. He will not feel whole literary cocktail parties hanging on his lightest utterance, for it is well agreed now what he can and cannot say; what a pleasantly trite clam he is sometimes and how low he once brought bold Edna .Ferber in a single exchange of shots about looking feminine.** He will be permitted to enjoy himself and the U. S. this time and his real friends, of whom he made quite a number, will see something of him besides the back view of a man shaking hands...
Gigolo (Rod La Rocque). Edna Ferber wrote the story: a Western boy loses his fortune in Pa: shoots down enemy planes, sinks to the level of dancing boy lonesome old ladies, is stung back to respectability by his sweetheart's caustic rebuke, returns to the ironworks tradition of the pioneer Gorys, emerges on top after all. In spite of amateurish photograhy jumbled scenario, the audience found several good moments...
...reporting the threat of suit by Mr. Thomas Taggart of French Lick, Ind., against Novelist Edna Ferber for the implication in her book Show Boat that he was a gambler, TIME stated erroneously that Miss Ferber was sued in 1922 by her "onetime Chicago Landlady" for allegedly libelous character drawing in the novel So Big (TIME, Sept. 13). The injured person was a onetime friend and hostess of Miss Ferber's; the suit was never brought, merely talked about, the lady fancying she saw herself in the married woman with whom the young hero fell in love...
...Miss Ferber appears not to have included "Hinky Dink" McKenna with "Bath House" John Coughlin in the stage-setting of Chicago under Mayor Carter Harrison, an omission that should not be allowed to pass without notice...
SHOW BOAT-E dna Ferber - Doubleday, Page ($2). New Orleans to Chicago, a panorama in color and folkways...