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...perfect acoustics provided by the gently sloping Masson vineyards, in which he has a part interest. (The Masson estate was the scene of Anna Held's notorious champagne bath at the turn of the century.) The Fromms hired the San Francisco Symphony's Solo Violinist Ferenc Molnar (no kin to the late playwright) as series director, promptly sold out 500 folding seats for each of three concerts...
...cold compress." While he derided "soapbox philosophers" and "commercial uplifters," Critic Nathan preached, cajoled and bullied to carve out a niche for Eugene O'Neill, the first U.S. dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson: "Nathan had as profound an influence on the American theater as George Bernard Shaw on English theater...
...Fresh from his triumphal "election" as Soviet Premier and accompanied by his latest favorite, First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov (see box, p. 24), Khrushchev descended on Budapest, scene of his most dubious triumph. He bounced out of his TU-104 jetliner, kissed Hungarian Party Chief Janos Kadar and Premier Ferenc Munnich on both cheeks, and with a wave of a black Homburg. told 4,000 stone-faced Hungarians: "The Soviet Union and the other Socialist countries are your most loyal friends." Replied the sallow, thin-haired Kadar. without a blink at the sepulchral irony of his own words...
...amnesty for revolt heroes were broken in a blood bath of summary trials; the workers' councils got promised support just long enough to identify and destroy their leaders. All that remained of Kadar's reputation was a sickly stench. Last week the Russians replaced Kadar with Dr. Ferenc Munnich, 72, Moscow-line former Secret Police boss...
...Still, he felt that already the U.S. has seen some modern performances that compare with the supremely brilliant ones in the past abroad, and cited Jeanne Eagels in John Colton's Rain (1922), Pauline Lord in Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted (1924), Alfred Lunt in Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman (1924), and Laurette Taylor in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie...