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...opener was an adaptation of The Royal Family, a 1927 comedy hit by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. A trifle rusty and overdone for 1954 and TV, the play covers the strenuous alarums, excursions, and extravagances of three generations of fiercely theatrical Cavendishes (who bear a neat resemblance to the Barrymores) in the course of resolving the heroine's now-familiar indecision between the stage and a normal marriage...
...that would rise to an altitude of ten feet was watched with respect, and a man who got high enough to "break wood" (i.e., have an actual crash) was a hero. Paris rang with theories on planes and flight, almost all of them completely false. One Captain Ferber, however, gave the youth a piece of advice he never forgot: "To invent a flying machine is nothing; to build it is little; to make it fly is everything...
...Warner) takes Hollywood back for the third time to the soil-pay dirt, that is-of Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prizewinning 1924 novel. However, the ground has been pretty well cropped-over by now, and the corn cannot be strongly recommended for human consumption. Jane Wyman, nonetheless, injects an attractive glow into the pious heroine, the pure little rich girl who bears poverty, hard work and a doltish husband so meekly that, as would appear, her sufferings later give her the unchallenged right to run her son's life for him. Sterling Hayden is convincingly uninteresting...
Four months after Novelist Edna Ferber called New York the filthiest city in the world and "a scab on the face of our country," Mrs. Wendell Willkie, widow of the 1940 presidential candidate, arrived from Europe with a new blast. "I think New York is the dirtiest city I've ever been in, and I love New York," said Edith Willkie. But she had the start of a solution: "I'm willing to go out with a broom and help clean up myself...
United We Stand. Convert Little's longest previous crusade was directed against Novelist Edna Ferber for daring to try to cut Texas down to midget size in Giant. Little turned out 39 columns about Novelist Ferber; in one, he offered to play host to an autographing party so that she could be publicly hanged ("The only new note in literary criticism ... in the last 30 years...