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SARATOGA TRUNK - Edna Ferber-. Doubleday, Doran...
...Land Is Bright (by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber; produced by Max Gordon) is a show about the forces that helped send the world to hell, but to most people it will give merely an evening of sheer escape. It can't avoid becoming a movie, but it might have been a play. It is the story of a ruthless robber baron who amassed $200,000,000 in the '90s, and of his corrupt, irresponsible descendants-flinthearts and playboys, women prowling Europe for titles, girls scouring Manhattan for thrills. It might have lacerated the flesh...
Editor-in-chief of the Woman's Home Companion for 29 years, she edited it from a circulation of 737,764 to 3,607,974. That increase was only partly due to her buying the high-priced fiction of Kathleen Norris, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and other favorites of the weaker sex, paying $25,000 for the unpublished letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, hiring Eleanor Roosevelt to edit a forum department in the Companion called "Mrs. Roosevelt's Page." (Gertrude Lane was a lifelong Republican.) She was as shrewd an editor as she was hardworking...
...Last week a "Fight for Freedom" Committee was organized in Manhattan with 250 sponsors. Its members "accept the fact that we are at war," pledged to "do whatever is necessary to insure Hitler's defeat." Honorary chairman: Carter Glass. Typical backers: Colonel William Donovan, Authors Rupert Hughes, Edna Ferber, Publisher John Farrar, Editor Herbert Agar, Historian Walter Millis. But there was better evidence of the state of U.S. opinion...
...year 1940 found the man, as well as the man the year. It found him speaking, not only as a Briton, but as an American, taking his words from Oscar Hammerstein and Edna Ferber: "These two great organizations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. No one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along...