Word: lily
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Duel. For Prima Donna Sari Fedak, Molnar wrote Carnival. Result: she became a famed legitimate actress and his second wife. Molnar then wrote Heavenly and Earthly Love for a more beautiful woman, Lili Darvas, who, starring in it, became a famed actress also. Enraged, Actress Fedak responded by getting Melchior Lengyel, Hungary's second greatest playwright, to write a play with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured...
Besides his friend Miss Wills, the Bishop eyed and appraised the other seeded women players, Spain's dark and dashing Lili d'Alvarez who would like to play in a bathing suit; England's cheery, sandy-haired Eileen Bennett and determined, hard-driving Betty Nuthall; Mme. Renee Mathieu who is France's greatest woman amateur; Miss E. L. Heinie who lives and plays in South Africa; rosy Fraulein Aussem of Germany, and the other Californian Helen, Miss Jacobs, who strained her back a few days before the tournament but did not think it would bother her and between whom...
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, grandson of the onetime Kaiser, lately engaged to German Cinemactress Lili Damita, is listed as "Louis Ferdinand," student-laborer, in the Ford assembly plant in Los Angeles. He eats his lunches from paper bags. Last week he said he liked his job. Said he: "I'm just goofy-you understand that?-about it, although I do not know what my parents will do when they find...
Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 21, second son of the onetime German Crown Prince; to Lili Damita of Hollywood, French cinemactress. Stopping in Los Angeles, last week. Prince Louis said he liked the town, might stay, might work, might get naturalized...
...occur in Vienna and Budapest after the curtains are drawn. But to most English-writing dramatists sex remains the cue for either a problem play or an Oriental extravaganza. Therefore central Europe is combed for playwrights akin to the gently libidinous Ferenc Molnar. One of the latest combings is Lili Hatvany, authoress of The Love Duel...