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After Playwright Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) & wife were refused permission to enter Russia with a group of tourists which included Edna Ferber, Ralph Pulitzer and Sugar Heiress Dorothy Spreckels, the Soviet Foreign Office investigated, admitted a misunderstanding, ordered the Connellys be let in at once...
THEY BROUGHT THEIR WOMEN-Edna Ferber-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Expert machinist of popular-priced fiction, Edna Ferber has long turned out best-selling goods in three different models: novels, short stories and, with collaborators, plays. Like all carefully machined products for mass consumption, Edna Ferber's stories are as competently finished, as conservatively up-to-date, as shiny with neat paintwork and chromium fittings, as unindividual as next year's family model, f. o. b. Detroit...
...styles in short stories are changing. Yesterday's vogue, "the story with the snapper at the end," says sharp-eyed Authoress Ferber, seems "strangely old-fashioned and unconvincing now." New styles call for front drive, less road clearance, a sharper-tilted wheel. These eight stories will all do 20 mi. to a gallon; two of them will go 75 at a pinch. Some of the upholstery: A day in the frantically hard-working life of a successful actress, far removed from the "glamour" her public imagines her surrounded with. Efficient Fraulein's day off from her opulent Parkavian...
...James John Walker at Cape Ferrat, French Riviera, but not too ill to chirp: "Do I eat like I was sick or dead?" Edna Ferber, infected in London, convalesced at nearby Nice. In Paris the American Hospital opened two special wards to care for numerous LL S. victims. Forehanded Paris undertakers formally declared that they were short of coffins...
...most interesting plays that have graced the News York stage in this year when there has been a flood of meritorious productions, "Dinner at Eight," which opened at the Music Box last month, has not been esteemed too highly. The work of another of those fruitful Kaufman-Ferber collaborations, the play has set before the audience the intensely interesting elements that make up a dinner party at the home of Mrs. Oliver Jordan. "Just a small party. Lord and Lady Ferncliffe will be here, two dear friends of ours. Yes. Dinner at Eight." Built on a frame similar to Grand...