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Show Boat (M-G-M), launched as a novel by Edna Ferber 25 years ago and as a Broadway musical hit a year later, has steamed across the screen twice before, in 1929 and 1936, but never with such a lavish hand at the helm. M-G-M poured $2,400,000 into the latest voyage, refitted the venerable Cotton Blossom with a bight profusion of crisply Technicolored costumes, sets and vistas. The memorable Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score (Ol' Man River, Make Believe, Why Do I Love You?) is as dependable a mainstay as ever. But never...
Author Harriman says the Round Table was formed by accident and mutual attraction in 1920. It was an informal company, but one that no one dreamed of trying to crash. The charter members-including Alexander Woollcott, Harold Ross, George Kaufman and Edna Ferber -had violent dislikes that kept membership low and bores off bounds...
...list of "bourgeois" books banned by Communist Hungary now neared the 700 mark. Among the forbidden authors: Louis Bromfield, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, John P. Marquand, P. G. Wodehouse, Marcel Proust. Specifically mentioned as objectionable: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People...
Chatting with Novelist Edna Ferber, Alice Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, recalled a recent illness in an isolated western cabin: "There was a foot and a half of snow outside, and my temperature was 103. Of course, I had my own aureomycin with me, but I thought, 'Wouldn't it be strange if I died here in this log cabin?' " Quipped Author Ferber, "Just think what the headline writers would have done with the story. I can see it now, 'From White House to Log Cabin...
...Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. 2. Gypsy Rose Lee and her husband. 3. The Shuberts. 4. Rodgers and Hammerstein. 5. Maurice Evans and Margaret Webster...