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