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...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...
...Love an Actress is a flimsy trifle in the Molnar manner, translated from the Hungarian of Laszlo Fodor. It is directed and produced by Chester Erskin, the man who put the final and triumphant touch of grimness into Subway Express and The Last Mile. The same note of grimness has unfortunately thrust itself into I Love an Actress, producing an effect not unlike that of a wispy Marie Laurencin drawing surrounded by a baroque gilt frame. Joe Mielziner has done sets that are too gorgeous for any actor to be funny in front...
...having maligned the whole profession of dentists," the manager of the Comedy Theatre in Budapest was fined, last week, 50 pengos ($8.75). He had produced Lullaby, by satiric Dramatist Ladislaus Fodor, who makes one of his characters say: "In my youth I had scientific ambitions, but I deteriorated and became a dentist...
Soon the superintendent of the Trinity Building discovered Joseph Fodor, workman, dressed in a blue suit, jumping lippety-lip along the parapets that border the roof. Informed that his daring high kicks, his cool pirouettes, his shocking splits excited the office workers, Joseph Fodor stopped and made this statement: "It was great sport dancing on the edge of things. There can be nothing like it unless it is flying. I should like to fly some time. But I shall dance no more, at least not here...
Among the younger Hungarian dramatists whose wares will Come to Broadway are Ladislaus Fazekas with Four Gentlemen in Dress Suits; Attila Orbok with The Comet; Ladislaus Fodor, whose Marguerite of Navarre will be called Successful Despite Himsclf; and Nicholas Vitez in whose Where Is the Drama? Leo Ditrichstein will star...