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...Liliom (by Ferenc Molnar; produced by Vinton Freedley) is still a charming play. Time has done very little to harm it-far less, certainly, than Producer Freedley...
When the Theatre Guild produced Liliom (with Joseph Schildkraut and Eva Le Gallienne) 19 years ago, it found the right tone and tempo. Last week's production does not. Not only does Actor Meredith fail to catch Schildkraut's swagger, and the sets fail to measure up to Lee Simonson's stunning original ones, but the play moves slowly, puffingly, from scene to scene-as though Liliom took his round trip to Hell and back on a milk train...
...girl who phoned Don Ameche that day in 1931 was Bernadine Flynn, Don Ameche's co-star at Wisconsin. She, too, had found her was to Broadway. She carried letters of recommendation from Zona Gile, Wisconsin novelist and playwright, who had seen her with Don in Liliom...
...Liliom (Erich Pommer). This adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's famed play, with French dialog and English subtitles, is notable for two reasons. Its director was Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis). Its star is Charles Boyer, who, after a comparatively inconsequential sojourn in Hollywood, returned to France a year ago and promptly became its leading matinee idol...
...raffish vagabond who considers it beneath his dignity to take a job as janitor and prefers to mistreat his mistress while she supports him, Boyer supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema...