Word: molnar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Romantic Night (United Artists). This is Ferenc Molnar's The Swan, revised and softened, its crinkling wit ironed into conventional film dialog, its satire modified to focus attention on the romantic elements. Playwright Molnar was making deft fun of royalty in The Swan; in One Romantic Night Director Paul Stein is using royalty in its familiar stage function, as atmosphere. The result is only fair in spite of Lillian Gish's skill in making real the wistful, adolescent princess who loves a tutor and marries a prince. The trouble is that perhaps she never loved the tutor; such...
Marshal, by Ferenc Molnar, presented by the Paravent Players of Providence, was concerned with an aged nobleman, his philandering wife and her affinity, an actor. Shot, the actor is too proud to give the outraged husband the satisfaction of knowing...
...charge, well-nigh beatified her during the next 15 years as the virginal, wide-eyed heroine of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, The White Sister, et al. Soon to be seen is her first audible cinema, One Romantic Night, adapted from Playwright Ferenc Molnar's The Swan...
...latest play of Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright, a businessman asks his stenographer what perfume she uses. To her reply, "Chanel 8," says he: "Try Molineux 22; it is cheaper and smells 37% better." Because of this speech, Playwright Molnar was sued last week in Paris by Perfumer Gabrielle Chanel...
...meeting of the Dramatic Club Monday night, it was decided not to produce Molnar's "Liliom" as recommended by the executive committee, but to continue the Club's policy of producing plays hitherto unproduced in America...