Word: lengyel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prima Donna Sari Fedak, Molnar wrote Carnival. Result: she became a famed legitimate actress and his second wife. Molnar then wrote Heavenly and Earthly Love for a more beautiful woman, Lili Darvas, who, starring in it, became a famed actress also. Enraged, Actress Fedak responded by getting Melchior Lengyel, Hungary's second greatest playwright, to write a play with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured...
Lajos Biro has contributed two diversions popular in Europe : The Highwayman and The Yellow Lily. Antonia, a recent play by Melehior Lengyel, is charted for production by the Frohmans. The Tragedy of Man, a noted Continental classic, is also confidently expected...
...Melchlor Lengyel's comedy "Sancho Panza," based on an episode of Corvantes' famous novel, and now playing at the Colonial Theatre is most appropriate with its good-natured political satire and its refreshing common sense. Sancho, while governor of the Island of Barataria, deals out justice after the manner of Solomon; sparkling epigrams fall from his lips in scores; his plans for preserving peace are extraordinarily like those of the winner of the Bok Peace Prize, although simpler and some-what more practicable. But withal, the strain of governing is too much for his kindly soul, he gladly relinquishes...
...World Court at a time when the priests still thought they constituted an Election Committee to the Kingdom of Heaven. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to see and enjoy "Sancho Panza" without troubling one's head in the least about politics. No doubt Lengyel dreamed of the perfect state when he wrote the play; doubtless he hoped it would have some effect in bringing it about, but so well did he sugar his lesson with pure drama and comedy that many will appreciate the one without recognizing the other...
...interest to those who care for the better things of the stage is the announcement that Otis Skinner will appear at the Colonial Theatre, Boston, in Melchior Lengyel's satirical comedy, "Sancho-Panza", adapted from Miguel de Cervantes' famous story, "Don Quixote de la Mancha.", Mr. Skinner will come to the Colonial Theatre next Monday, January 7, direct from the Hudson Theatre, New York, for a limited engagement of three weeks. The entire supporting cast that shared with him the honors of the New York engagement, will appear in Boston...