This novel takes as its subject three generations of a  theatrical family; the youngest, Kim Hawks, grows up to become a  Broadway star.
This novel takes as its subject three generations of a  theatrical family; the youngest, Kim Hawks, grows up to become a  Broadway star. Her mother Magnolia was an actress who had Kim by  the actor Gaylord Ravenal; Magnolia is the daughter of Captain Andy  Hawks, who runs the novel's title object on the Mississippi river.  FTP, name this 1926 Edna Ferber novel made, in the year after its  publication, into a musical with music by Jerome Kern and libretto  by Oscar Hammerstein.
This novel takes as its subject three generations of a  theatrical family; the youngest, Kim Hawks, grows up to become a  Broadway star.
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