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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That question seemed unnecessary. Sari Fedak was divorced (1925) from Hungary's most successful playwright, smug Ferenc Molnar, after he had accused her of intimacy with 42 gentlemen, and she had replied in kind with a list of 142 ladies. The sensation, at the time, was international, if not cosmic. Yet the Court asked last week: "Have you a hus-band?" Sari Fedak (shrugging a black, snaky shoulder): "Thank God, no!" The Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: National Jest | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...Play's The Thing. Sandor Turai (Holbrook Blinn), like Playwright Ferenc Molnar himself, is an urbane gentleman, an excellent dramatist. Therefore, he handles a scandal as he would a theatrical situation; and in doing so, affords the audience a play within a play, an agreeable course in dramatic construction, a joyous evening in the theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 15, 1926 | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

Married. For the fourth time, Ferenc Molnar, most famed of contemporary Hungarian dramatists (Liliom, The Guardsman, The Swan, The Glass Slipper, Fashions For Men); to Lilli Darvas, famed Hungarian actress. His wives: Margit Vezei, daughter of writer-painter-publisher Pester Loyd (six years); Margit Vezei (remarried, redivorced); Sari Fredak, operetta star (married, separated immediately). He reputedly supported each of his wives in the style of mistress for some years before he married them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

Fine Clothes. Ferenc Molnar wrote the play from which this film was taken. It was here called Fashions for Men and later, when the public began to fall away, Passions for Men. It is the story of a humble shop clerk who lost his wife and his money, and finally got what he wanted. It makes a pretty good picture, particularly since it is played by Lewis Stone, Percy Marmont, Alma Rubens and Raymond Griffith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 2, 1925 | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

Divorced. Ferenc Molnar, famed Hungarian playwright (Liliom, The Swan, The Guardsman); by Sari Fedak, Hungarian actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 2, 1925 | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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