Word: liliom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awkward though advanced chatauquean allegory " by the author of Liliom...
Launzi. The season of the astute Mr. Arthur Hopkins (director of destiny for Ethel Barrymore, John Barryrnore) opened with a drama by Molnar, author of Liliom, adapted by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Pauline Lord, whose performance of Anna Christie was one of the great things of the American theatre, was the star. Particularly auspicious were the omens since the play had attained brilliant Continental success. And so the curtain rose...
...Swan. Many Americans consider Liliom the greatest play to reach our shores in many years. The Swan is by the same author, Franz Molnar. In Europe it is almost sacrilege to mention them in the same breath. The latter is considered incomparably his masterpiece. Eva Le Gallienne will play the lead...
...imaginary ship's hold, one of the best scenes, completely falls to "get across" to a Boston audience. The ceaseless beat of the tom-tom is a diversion of remarkable assistance to the dramatist. The whole is not a pleasant afternoon's diversion, but with the single exception of "Liliom", Boston has had no play this year as well worth seeing...
This, Mr. Baker said, was an opportunity for the college man. His education has given him the taste for true art and has enabled him to produce plays of artistic value which will attract the public. The speaker used "Liliom", a recent Theatre Guild production as an example...