Search Details

Word: liliom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...part, given her by Director Harrison Grey ("Mr. Minnie Maddern") Fiske was that of a Negro maid in Mrs. Boltay's Daughters. She acted hither and yon until Arthur Richman's sweetish comedy Not So Long Ago remained on Broadway for two seasons. Two greater successes followed: Liliom, The Swan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Liliom, a Budapest barker about to become a father, gets trapped holding up a cashier, commits suicide. Years later, returning to do a good deed on earth, he forgets his purpose, slaps his daughter, now grown up. U. S. audiences relished Liliom's gruff swagger, wept copiously over his wife's dumb agony, over the pair's never-mentioned love. Philosopher Liliom: "Nobody's right?but they all think they are. A lot they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Slap. Once Molnar irritably slapped his crying baby. For that, his first wife, Margarat Veszi, divorced Mm. In Liliom he wrote that, in love, slaps are necessary, painless. He sent the play to her, remarried her on the strength of it. At Liliom's premiere he, nervous, slapped her. Again divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. Sari Fedak, Hungarian actress, divorced wife of Playwright Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Guardsman), to Baron Frederick Vilarnyi, Hungarian Minister at Bucharest. When he sued for divorce Playwright Molnar accused Actress Fedak of relations with 42 other men. She replied in kind with a list of 142 women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Greatest of living Hungarian dramatists, slyest of cynics, surest of technicians, he has had successful plays in Manhattan theatres almost continuously since the U. S. premiere of Liliom (1921). Successes: The Swan, The Guardsman, The Play's the Thing, and many another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Rainbow Folk | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next