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Announcement was made last night by an advisory committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club that Molnar's "Liliom" has been selected as the annual spring production of the organization. The committee which selected this play consisted of H.G. Meyer '30, R.R. Wallstein '32, and Frederick Thon '31. The play will be presented in Brattle Hall on the evenings of May 7, 8, 9, and in Boston...
...attempting to stage "Liliom" the Dramatic Club believes that it is undertaking one of its most ambitious projects of recent years. It is composed of a prologue and seven scenes, which, with a cast of 23 characters ranks it as one of the largest productions that the club has ever attempted...
...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...
...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...
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...