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Hinsdale, Ill., Summer Theater: Linda Darnell in the Kaufmann-Ferber comedy, The Royal Family...
...tribute to the late Ethel Barrymore, director Marston Balch and the company of the Tufts Arena Theatre have revived The Royal Family. And with this early (1927) George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber comedy, these industrious young student-performers conclude their 1959 summer season, by taking us back to the Roaring Twenties when the Barrymores were the reigning theatrical dynasty...
Certainly Alaska deserves statehood, but your story and the popular Ice Palace (Edna Ferber might still have the bestselling habit, but she certainly does not have the feel for Alaska) fail to convey the warmth and fighting spirit which govern the people...
...water in search of fishermen. Farther up the Panhandle, in the capital city of Juneau (pop. 7,200), gardens danced with lilacs and daffodils, and folks admired the new paint job that glistened on the twelve-story Mendenhall apartment building (preparation, some gossiped, for the filming of Edna Ferber's Ice Palace). In a cocktail lounge a jukebox played Squaws Along the Yukon ("Oogah, oogah, oogah, which means I love you, won't you be my honey so I can oogah, oogah...
Last week demands for free copies were still flooding into Doubleday. Only four of the books had qualified as bestsellers by the appointed time: Jean Kerr's Please Don't Eat the Daisies. Edna Ferber's Ice Palace, Paul I. Wellman's Ride the Red Earth, and Robert Lewis Taylor's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. By also entering two less-likelies, Kenneth Roberts' The Battle of Cowpens and Saunders Redding's The Lonesome Road. Doubleday had thought to give its parlay some sporting zest. It succeeded too well. In flowed letters...