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- <text id=93HT0007>
- <title>
- 1920s: Show Boat
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
- Theater
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- Show Boat
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>(JANUARY 9, 1928)
- </p>
- <p> Show Boat. Edna Ferber fashioned for herself one of the
- happiest New Years in New York. In the same week a play of hers
- (The Royal Family) started what seemed to be her first great
- success in the theater, and Florenz Ziegfeld's musical comedy
- made from her novel established itself magnificently as the best
- of its kind in town. She did not write the songs and jokes, but
- the librettist held closely to her basic story. The floating
- theatre on the Mississippi made a perfect background; Negro
- singers helped the melodies. These tunes were by Jerome David
- Kern, written at his best. Unlimited chorus girls and superbly
- competent principals (there is no star) added full value.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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