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Edna Ferber Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber 1887-1968, American author, b. Kalamazoo, Mich. Her novels portray the lives of a wide variety of Americans in a vigorous, colorful, and panoramic fashion. Among her best-known novels are So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize), Show Boat (1926, musical version 1927), Cimarron (1929), ... Read more
Herbert Ferber Herbert Ferber
Herbert Ferber 1906-91, American sculptor, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (D.D.S., 1930). His original name was Herbert Ferber Silvers. Turning from early massive figures in wood and stone, he developed large, spatially inventive abstractions in brazed metal called environmental sculpture. Among... Read more
The Royal Family The Royal Family
Royal Family, The (1927), a comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. [Selwyn Theatre, 343 perf.] The Cavendishes are the greatest acting family in America, presided over by the aging Fanny Cavendish ( Haidee Wright). Her daughter, Julie ( Ann Andrews), is the leading contemporary actress,... Read more
showboat showboat
showboat In the early 19th cent. entertainment was brought by boat to the pioneers that settled along the western rivers (especially the Mississippi and Ohio) of the United States. At first companies only traveled by boat, performing on land. Later the boats themselves, first paddle boats and... Read more
Jerome Kern Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern , 1885-1945, American composer of musicals, b. New York City. After studying in New Jersey and New York he studied composition in Germany and England. His first success was the operetta The Red Petticoat (1912). Among the numerous musicals that followed were Leave It to Jane (1917), ... Read more
Algonquin round table Algonquin round table
ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE was a group of journalists, playwrights, actors, and writers who gathered daily at a special table in the Rose Room at the Algonquin Hotel on West Forty-fourth Street in New York City from 1919 to about 1929. Their witticisms and jokes appeared in... Read more
Stage Door Stage Door
Stage Door (1936), a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. [Music Box Theatre, 159 perf.] While boarding at the Footlights Club, a home for aspiring young actresses, Terry Randall ( Margaret Sullavan) finds her loyalty to the theatre sorely tested. Her fiancé, the radical playwright... Read more
Dinner at Eight Dinner at Eight
Dinner at Eight (1932), a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. [Music Box, 232 perf.] The guests invited to the dinner party of Millicent Jordan ( Ann Andrews) have all seemed to reach turning points in their lives. Larry Renault ( Conway Tearle), a broke, alcoholic, fading matinee idol,... Read more
George S Kaufman George S Kaufman
George S. Kaufman , 1889-1961, American dramatist and journalist, b. Pittsburgh as George Kaufman. As a drama critic for various New York newspapers he was influential in raising the standards of criticism in the theater. He collaborated on more than 40 plays, many of them tremendously successful,... Read more
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