Word: ferenc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre Guild decided to produce Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman. Its chief characters were a married actor and actress, its theme a test of fidelity. The Guild's canny Theresa Helburn saw the piquant possibilities of casting a happily-married stage couple in the parts. The tremendous success of The Guardsman led to 14 more such pairings. The Lunts are now known throughout the U. S. as the leading Mr. and Mrs. of the theatre...
Brilliantly adapted by Jo Swerling from a play by Ferenc Molnar, played up to the hubcaps by cinema's most famed comedy couple and high-class supporters, Double Wedding is a 100% sample of the haywire school. Its only flaw is that, with Hollywood's destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind...
Particular praise went to Soloist Ferenc Farago's fine baritone. Young Dr. Farago (32) is head of the Institute of Bacteriology at Budapest University. After graduating from the University's Medical School, he studied at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Chicago, is the only singer in the group who ever saw the U. S. before. He has been with the chorus since he was 19, never misses a rehearsal, takes...
...bitter rivalry between the U. S. and Japan, where swimming is now No. 2 sport to baseball, no one, naturally, gave a thought to Hungary. Hungary was represented in the 100-metre final by a skinny looking youth named Ferenc Csik...
...while the rest of her anatomy was occupied in carnal misbehavior (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934, et seq.). Last week the Fascist Party's special prize for "the most artistic" foreign film of the year went to Columbia Pictures' No Greater Glory (TIME, April 23, 1934). Adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel (The Paul Street Boys) about the warfare of two children's gangs for possession of a vacant lot which municipal authorities eventually take away from both, the cinema is a brilliant allegory suggesting that war is childish, futile and unpardonable...