Word: molnar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playhouse (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC). Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman, with Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer...
Died. Ferenc Molnar, 74, playwright (The Swan, Liliom, The Guardsman, The Play's The Thing, and 38 others), novelist and raconteur; in Manhattan. A practicing newsman in his native Budapest for 22 years (until 1918), chipper, monocled Molnar Was sometimes called the "Hungarian Moliere." A Jew, he fled the Nazis in 1940, became a U.S. citizen. Recently, Communist-dominated Hungary labeled him a "western imperialist," banned his books, although Molnar avoided social and political comment and strove only for sophisticated entertainment. The successful playwright, he once said, must do "some swindling . . . Sometimes it is just cheating your conscience...
Make a Wish (Victor; 10 sides 45 rpm). One tune sounds pretty much like another in Hugh Martin's monotonously gay musical setting for Molnar's The Good Fairy...
Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Maria Riva in Molnar's The Swan...
...week two plays, one French and one American, struggled to outdo each other in making their characters and their audiences groan. As the work of French Playwright Jean Anouilh (Antigone), Cry of the Peacock proved the more surprising debacle. Anouilh's indictment of Love began as frivolously as Molnar and wound up as savagely as Strindberg. With notable help from the production, the play messed up every mood it attempted, and, despite brief glimpses of something better, proved dated, hollow, inept. Bitterly portraying how Love tricks the innocent, mocks the decadent, dooms the misshapen, tortures...