Word: ference
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...minuscule Ernest Truex and fluttery Spring Byington into the organization for the first time. Miss Powell is better known for her novels (She Walks in Beauty) than for her dramatic works (Big Night). And she is pitiably outclassed when compared to such Guild comic artists as S. N. Behrman, Ferenc Molnar and George Bernard Shaw. Although Jig Saw is utterly without significance and woefully short on plot, it abounds in witty if ungermane lines...
...Wolf. The piglets still pipe the tune by which 1933 will be remembered though by now they should be as tired of it as the rest of the U. S. The wolf, an equally good entertainer, has no song at all. No Greater Glory (Columbia), adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel Paul Street Boys, is a war picture unlike any other that has come from Hollywood. It concerns the struggle between two groups of Budapest schoolboys-the Paul Street Boys and their larger rivals, the Red Shirts -for possession of a corner lot. Smallest, feeblest, most loyal member...
...Good Fairy. After samples of how inept Viennese comedy can be (I Love An Actress, A Church Mouse), the season has at last afforded the genuine article by the maestro who holds the controlling interest in that branch of contemporary drama -Ferenc Molnar...
...Church Mouse. Some doubt exists as to whether all Hungarian plays not written by Ferenc Molnar are originally dull, or if their dullness is due to the unerringly wooden touch of Frederick & Fanny Hatton who adapt most of them to the U. S. stage. Last month Laszlo Fodor's I Love an Actress was presented in Manhattan. Like an interesting photographic landscape, it had form and pattern but no color. Equally lifeless is A Church Mouse, another load of Fodor which relates the story of a drab little girl who has cunning enough to persuade a rich...
Robert K. Marshall 1G, who was to have supervised the production of Ferenc Molnar's play, "Olympia", which the Harvard Dramatic Club had planned to produce with the cooperation of the Idler Society but which was banned by Dean B.V. Brown of Radcliffe, has been appointed to direct this stylized production of Oscar Wilde's well-known play...