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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort of things Professor George Pierce Baker's solemn young men at Harvard were trying to write 15 and more years ago. They seem easy to write, but not so in fact. They are quite civilized, the latest offerings in the U. S. of urbane Hungarian Ferenc Molnar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...turn of events, tried to calm the rioters. He had to flee for his life. Like locusts the workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Up With Bela Kun! | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...ROMANTIC NIGHT-Somewhat mutilated but well played adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's The Swan (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...Romantic Night (United Artists). This is Ferenc Molnar's The Swan, revised and softened, its crinkling wit ironed into conventional film dialog, its satire modified to focus attention on the romantic elements. Playwright Molnar was making deft fun of royalty in The Swan; in One Romantic Night Director Paul Stein is using royalty in its familiar stage function, as atmosphere. The result is only fair in spite of Lillian Gish's skill in making real the wistful, adolescent princess who loves a tutor and marries a prince. The trouble is that perhaps she never loved the tutor; such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

Marshal, by Ferenc Molnar, presented by the Paravent Players of Providence, was concerned with an aged nobleman, his philandering wife and her affinity, an actor. Shot, the actor is too proud to give the outraged husband the satisfaction of knowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Amateur Nights | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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