A Farewell to Arms section as Hemingway was writing the scene about Catherine Barkley's childbirth. The novel was first serialized in "Scribner's Magazine" in the May 1929 to October 1929 issues. The book was published in September 1929 with a first edition print-run of approximately 31,000 copies. The success of "A Farewell to Arms" made Hemingway financially independent. "The Hemingway Library Edition" was released in July 2012, with a dust jacket facsimile of the first edition. The newly published edition presents an appendix with the many alternate endings Hemingway wrote for the novel in addition to pieces from early draft manuscripts. The JFK Library
Is Everybody Happy? (1929 film) Project website. A five-minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube. Lewis and his orchestra also appeared in a short subject called "Is Everybody Happy?" (1941), consisting of musical numbers cut from the Abbott and Costello feature film "Hold That Ghost" (1941) released by Universal Studios. Columbia Pictures released a feature-length biopic of Lewis also titled "Is Everybody Happy?" (1943). Notes Is Everybody Happy? (1929 film) Is Everybody Happy? (1929) is an American Pre-Code musical film starring Ted Lewis, Alice Day, Lawrence Grant, Ann Pennington, and Julia Swayne Gordon, directed by Archie Mayo, and released by Warner Bros.