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Today Michael Todd lives at Chicago's swank Drake Hotel, is driven in a Cadillac by a liveried chauffeur, mangles the King's English, aspires to produce the delicate dramas of his good friend Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mantle of Barnum | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Delicate Story (by Ferenc Molnar. produced by Gilbert Miller & Vinton Freedley). The famous Hungarian playwright-refugee Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Swan, The Guardsman) apparently has not been too depressed by a world at war. Nowadays he spends much of his time in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel bar, and he has not lost his Continental knack of getting amusement out of the idea of cuckoldry. He is amused by it in Delicate Story. which is so delicate that it almost - but not quite - wastes away. The wife of a Swiss delicatessen-keeper takes a shine to a young man about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Shows in Manhattan | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Seven Little Balkans. It was not long in beginning. German SS men have circulated freely in Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria recently on the pretext that they were directing the rehabilitation of Germans returning to the Fatherland. Last week in Hungary the Arrow Cross Party of Naziphile Ferenc Szalesi presented to Premier Count Paul Teleki a demand for a voice in the Government, which was a sure preliminary to the Nazification of the country and a probable invitation to the German Army. Hungary is the first station on the Drang nach Östen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 200th Day | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...Hungary has had "Big Führer" Ferenc Szalasi, of the Hungarian National Socialists, in jail for two years, but still at large was Szalasi's No. 2 man, Kálmán Hubay. Since the leader's incarceration Hungary's Green Shirts have changed their greeting from "Heil Szalasi!" to "Kitartás!" ("Hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Quislers | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Liliom (by Ferenc Molnar; produced by Vinton Freedley) is still a charming play. Time has done very little to harm it-far less, certainly, than Producer Freedley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New & Old Plays in Manhattan | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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