The Dancing Girls

MP3 Audio CD. This is one of the 4 amazing short fictions ever written by the prominent, Edna Ferber for periodicals from 1910 to 1919 they simply cover her wonderful blend of genuine characters, despair, bliss and frequent fun. The main story, The Dancing Girls, is admirable for the way she illustrates the scenery of middle America little township and how humble and kind persons can surely find their way to one another. Her other stories in this volume are Old Lady Mandel, Long Distance, and One Hundred Percent

Edna Ferber born on August 15, 1885 and died on April 16, 1968 was an author, short story writer and dramatist. Her books were particularly renowned and were awarded the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat and made into the 1927 musical version, Cimarron; adapted into the1931 movie which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Giant which was made into the 1956 Hollywood film.

She was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish sales person, Jacob Charles Ferber, and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Julia Neumann Ferber, who was of German Jewish lineage. After residing in Chicago, Illinois, and Ottumwa, Iowa, at the age of 12 Ferber and her family lived at Appleton, Wisconsin, where she finished high school and enrolled at Lawrence University. She had newspaper careers at the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal before releasing her first story. She contained the 1920 Republican National Convention and 1920 Democratic National Convention for the United Press Association.

Her other famous works include Dawn O'Hara; Buttered Side Down; Roast Beef, Medium; Personality Plus; Emma Mc Chesney and Co.; Our Mrs. McChesney; Fanny Herself; Cheerful ? By Request; Half Portions; $1200 a Year: A Comedy in Three Acts; The Girls; Gigolo; So Big; Minick: A Play; Show Boat; Stage Door; Mother Knows Best.