Word: liliom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest. With London they were theatrically acquainted, with Paris, with Berlin, and even to a slight extent with Vienna and Moscow. The barrier of distance plus the barrier of language, almost insuperable except to the penetrating student, blocked cultural roads to Budapest. Then some wandering prospector struck dramatic gold, Liliom was produced, and Hungary became the cynosure of caravans of U. S. theatre men hurrying across the wastes of Central Europe in covered wagon-lits...
...later it became Ferenc, and there is a distinct movement afoot at present to simplify it to just plain Francis. But that is one of those problems that must simply be left to work themselves out in their own way. At any rate he will follow his great successes Liliom, Fashions for Men and The Swan with The Red Mill, in which Belasco will star Lenore Ulric. The Theatre Guild will blend the brilliant abilities of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine into a production of The Guardsman. Gilbert Miller has acquired The Roman Feast and there is talk of reviving...
...meantime, his active little figure had been acquiring added effulgence, reflected from the lights of Broadway. His name began to appear with increasing frequency in theatre-programs as the composer or arranger of incidental music. Liliom audiences may still recall and whistle his Look Out, Here Come the Damn Police, as vividly as they remember the acting of Schildkraut. He composed the pantomime used as a prelude to John Drink-water's Mary Stuart. He arranged the old songs used in Fashion, and wrote A Kiss in Xanadu, which provided the loveliest moments in Beggar on Horseback...
...will also be closed in future to many of the best productions of the older dramatists, and to almost all the works of more recent playwrights. Eugene O'Neill, for example, by the profanity regulation, will be completely barred. Such plays as "Rain" and "Anna Christie", not to mention "Liliom", all recognized as works of unusual merit, could not be produced within the city limits...
...Pirn Passes By, by A. A. Milne Liliom, by Franz Molnar...