Word: molnar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copley Theatre is closing. The talking movie has made a stock company impractical. This may be a minor incident in the life of the theatre and it may be the hand writing on the wall. Some years ago the Copley was forced to discard the plays of Shaw, Molnar, and other of the contemporary immortals, because Boston was uninterested. The company then turned to mystery plays and trivial fantasies in an attempt to conform with local dramatic appreciation. For a time it seemed that the venture would succeed. But that, too, has failed...
Robert K. Marshall 1G, who was to have supervised the production of Ferenc Molnar's play, "Olympia", which the Harvard Dramatic Club had planned to produce with the cooperation of the Idler Society but which was banned by Dean B.V. Brown of Radcliffe, has been appointed to direct this stylized production of Oscar Wilde's well-known play...
Denouncing Molnar's play "Olympia" which had been selected by the Harvard Dramatic Club for joint presentation with Radcliffe this fall as the worst play she had ever read, Dean B. V. Brown of Radcliffe yesterday refused to sanction the production of this play by members of the Idler Club, Radcliffe dramatic society. Announcement of this refusal was reported last evening by H. F. Hurlburt '31, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...decision, Dean Brown declared that after reading the play, she had given it to four others to read, and that they had all agreed with her. Concerning its production in New York, in 1928, Dean Brown stated that if it had been written by anyone else but Molnar this would never have happened, and that while it was suited to professional talent, it was too much for amateurs to attempt...
...decision of Dean Brown of Radcliffe in refusing to allow the amateur actresses of that college to cooperate in the Harvard Dramatic Club production of Molnar's "Olympia" is quite natural and expected under the circumstances. Molnar's brilliant and finished comedies are not likely to be considered suitable for undergraduate production by the Dean of the average woman's college. In this case motives of prudery were perhaps bolstered by the thought that "Olympia" is not one of Molnar's outstanding plays...