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...Royal Family Of Broadway", the screen version of the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman, is not so much a motion picture as it is a photograph of a play. Being written for the legitimate stage, the Hollywood director has done nothing to adapt the original script to the peculiarities of the camera. The result is satisfactory in as much as it fulfills the purpose of the authors as they wrote for the stage, but all of the possibilities of a picture were not realized...
Cimarron (RKO). Edna Ferber's story of the birth and growth of the State of Oklahoma as reflected in the life of a newspaperman and his family was brilliantly cinematic in print and is vivid and memorable journalism as a cinema. It is a long, full-bodied picture, paced so deftly that although it covers more than half a century of crowded, changing events, it never drags and is rarely jerky. Westward goes Richard Dix with his wife (Irene Dunne) to start a newspaper in the town of Osage, Okla., which has sprung into a population...
...Royal Family of Broadway (Paramount). When Edna Ferber and George Kaufman wrote this brilliant play about the manners of a great stage family, the producers were careful to dissemble and critics referred only with circumlocutory guile to the obvious fact that the Barrymores were depicted. But since the play, after brilliant and prolonged success in New York and on the road, provoked no violent animosity from the group satirized, Paramount has found courage to label the characters. Fredric March imitates John Barrymore and tries to look as much like him as possible without conspicuous makeup. Ina Claire reflects many...
...lives with her, thinks she will be as great as Sarah Bernhardt. Miss Colbert eats potatoes and eclairs without effect on her figure (103 lb.), never collects press notices, seldom socializes, has not danced with anyone except her husband since her marriage. She enjoys reading Rostand, Conrad and Ferber; she attends the theatre six nights a week when she is not working...
...Author. Says Author Edna Ferber: "Only the more fantastic and improbable events in this book are true. . . . Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has." Author Ferber, unmarried, 42, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., of Jewish parents, now lives in Manhattan. A reporter at 17, she worked on the Milwaukee Journal, Chicago Tribune, wrote her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911. Author Ferber has a creamy complexion and thick black hair, is afraid of thunderstorms. She does all her writing on a typewriter. No ad- mirer of the highbrow, says she: "I have long since ceased trying...