Word: ferberization
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...ROYAL FAMILY-Marc Connelly and Edna Ferber smiling at the domestic antics of one of our theatrical first families (TIME...
SHOW BOAT?An impressive, elaborate, stirring, etc., musical play .derived from Edna Ferber's novel (TIME...
...Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett, Bernarr Macfadden (Graphic). Herbert Bayard Swope (World), Will Hays, Tex Rickard, Charles Michael Schwab, Otto Hermann Kahn, William Randolph Hearst, Alexander Pollock Moore (U. S. Ambassador to Peru and new owner of Daily Mirror), Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, David Belasco, Mr. Smith (Trader Horn), Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Elder, Kathleen Norris, the McCarthy sisters, others, including President Emma Bugbee of the New York Newspaper Women's Club...
Show Boat. Edna Ferber fashioned for herself one of the happiest New Years in New York. In the same week a play of hers (The Royal Family) started what seemed to be her first great success in the theatre, and Florenz Ziegfeld's musical comedy made from her novel established itself magnificently as the best of its kind in town. She did not write the songs and jokes, but the librettist held closely to her basic story. The floating theatre on the Mississippi made a perfect background; Negro singers helped the melodies. These tunes were by Jerome David Kern...
...theatre this season. Burlesque, single great success of the lot, is now challenged by the rough & tumble history of an august theatrical family. It is a story of the Drews and Barrymores say some people (including indignant Barrymores); cries of "no, no", from Authors George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. What of it? The play amuses...