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...Minnick?Edna Ferber's noted short story has been dramatized by herself and George S. Kaufman. Appearing as the old man will be O. P. Heggie...
...France (French)?Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Mme. Olga Petrova, actress-playwright; Owen Davis, dramatist; Edna Ferber, novelist; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, foreign affairs writer; Seymour Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; two Newfoundland fishermen picked...
...show Sir James M. Barrie; Jeanne Eagels, famed actress; Mrs. Margaret Talmadge, mother of the three famed Talmadge sisters ; John Emerson, President of the Actors' Equity Association, and his wife, Anita Loos, the director and scenario writer; E. E. Fernandi, "Rockefeller of Peru"; Benjamin Winchell, Remington Typewriter President ; Edna Ferber, novelist...
Apprenticeship to the sort of short story Miss Ferber has written-often slightly plotted, delicate character sketches in which the drama is of emotions rather than events-is splendid training for the writing of a novel. Compare So Big with Lummox (TIME, Oct. 29). Miss Hurst's book has passages of genius. Analyzed, however, it is a collection of sketches around a single theme. So Big, however, is in no sense a book written by an author wedded to short story technique. It is a fine novel. It moves steadily through its technical parts and its emotion value...
William Allen White, famed editor of the Emporia Gazette: "In a speech before the Writers' Club of Columbia University, I stated that the four greatest writers of fiction in America today are Willa Cather, Edna Ferber [see Page 14], Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield. I also stated that I am 'trying to write a kindly biography of Woodrow Wilson, whose aims I have always believed in, though I sometimes despised his methods...